[LAU] vorbis support in lame is deprecated

[Lorenzo]

Ray Rashif wrote:
> On 7 April 2010 09:05, Erik de Castro Lopo<mle+la at mega-nerd.com>  wrote:
>    
>> James Morris wrote:
>>> $ lame -h --preset cd --ogginput azr3.ogg azr3.mp3
>>> sorry, vorbis support in LAME is deprecated.
>>>
>>> what's with that? are they just being awkward?
>>>        
>> No idea, but if you enable the libsndfile option in lame, libsndfile
>> should provide support to read the Ogg.
>>      
> I stumbled over at the same problem. I needed to convert some oggs to
> mp3s for a player device. After it didn't work with lame I just did it
> from GUI, I think it was audiokonverter or something like that.
>    
Why can't one just do something like this?

oggdec input.ogg -o - | lame - output.mp3

(possibly loop it on many files..

By the way, there are relatively cheap portable players which support 
OGG and FLAC

Lorenzo