[LAU] [OT]: Publish music also in OGG format please?

[Lorenzo Sutton]

May I kindly and humbly suggest that people posting on LAU as links to 
'straight' mp3 files also provide a link to a file in OGG format?
IMHO it makes sense given the nature of the list and the better 
experience for readers/listeners and it only really takes very little 
effort [1]

Lorenzo.


[1] Example using oggenc (in the vorbis-tools package on debian-based 
distros).
If you have the original wave file (better):

oggenc -q 9 my_file.wav    #will create my_file.ogg use -o option to 
save to another file. See man oggenc for many more options

If you only have an mp3 version (also requires lame):

FILE=my_file; lame --decode $FILE.mp3 /tmp/$FILE.wav && oggenc -q 9 
/tmp/$FILE.wav -o ./$FILE.ogg
# replace my_file at the beginning with the filename of the mp3 file 
withut extension
# could be done without the temporary wave file  through raw pipes but 
one must know sampling rate, bitrate and channels of the file