Convert ogg to mp3

[jim-alexander]

Hey,

I've downloaded.. a LOT of music and then realised that ogg isn't compatible with my iPod classic so I need to convert it to mp3.

Is there some smart way to achieve this using the zotify tool itself?

I've been trying various ffmpeg commands that I find online but I'm not having much luck with a command that will convert the metadata (artist, album etc) and the album art all in one, I've had success with each but not both unfortunately.

Even if you can't do it with zotify / if you know a reliable ffmpeg command let me know thank you 👍

[jim-alexander]

With some more 'prompt engineering' I've come up with the following shell script file which appears to have solved it.

#!/bin/bash

# Check if source and destination directories are provided
if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 /path/to/source/ogg_files /path/to/destination/mp3_files"
    exit 1
fi

# Source and destination directories
SOURCE_DIR="$1"
DEST_DIR="$2"

# Create the destination directory if it doesn't exist
mkdir -p "$DEST_DIR"

# Loop through all .ogg files in the source directory
for ogg_file in "$SOURCE_DIR"/*.ogg; do
    # Extract filename without extension
    filename=$(basename "$ogg_file" .ogg)
    
    # Define the output mp3 file path
    mp3_file="$DEST_DIR/$filename.mp3"
    
    echo "Converting $ogg_file to $mp3_file..."
    
    # Conversion command with reduced logging
    ffmpeg -loglevel error -n -i "$ogg_file" -c:a libmp3lame -q:a 1 \
        -map_metadata 0 -map_metadata 0:s:0 -map 0 \
        -id3v2_version 3 -write_id3v1 1 "$mp3_file"
    
    # Check for conversion success
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "$ogg_file converted successfully to $mp3_file"
    else
        echo "Error converting $ogg_file"
    fi
done

echo "All conversions complete!"

Usage:
./convert-ogg-to-mp3.sh /dir/to/ogg-files /dir/to/output/to