Questions[ogg-vorbis](ubuntu)

I have an .ogg file (containing speech) with 192kbps quality that i'd like to reduce to 32kbps (to save space)

How can i do this?

So far i've tried this:

ffmpeg -i filename.ogg -ab 32k -f ogg new-filename.ogg

But i get this error:

[libvorbis @ 0x56157365ab60] encoder setup failed
Error initializing output stream 0:0 -- Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height
Conversion failed!

Am i using the wrong command? Is there a better approach i can take to save space? Please note that i only have access to the 192kbps file (not the original)

Grateful for help!

I have a lot of ogg files of pop music.

Unfortunately the tags are not normalized.

Example: One album has "Tina Turner" as interpreter and the next album has "Turner Tina".

It would be nice to normalize the tags.

I looked ad Picard, but the quick start guide tells me:

You should note - Picard is not built to be a mass single-track tag fixer.

How to mass tag fix on Ubuntu?

I don't want a GUI. I am hoping that this process is automated. There are just too many files. I can't fix tags by hand and per single file.

This should be automated:

1. tool looks at the current tags of one audio file.
2. tool tries to guess the album and title with the help of some internet database
3. tool should normalize the tags if a valid album+title was found in the DB
4. the tool should skip the file if no valid album+title was found and print a warning.

With other words: I don't want to set "Tina Tuner" by script or GUI myself.

I have Ubuntu 18.04

I have been always using FooBar2000 to add ReplayGain tags to my music library (consisting of .mp3 or .ogg files). On my new computer I would like to avoid installing Wine for just this task.

Are there any native tools that I can use for the same purpose?

I don't mind if they are command-line only, or to use two different programs for mp3 and ogg, but I want to be absolutely certain that they only write a tag and do not mess with the original file otherwise, e.g. by actually reencoding at a different volume.

I am searching a command-line tagging tool that supports ogg- and mp3-tagging and allows to add a picture to the tags.

Currently I use lltag but that does not support pictures. dagger is the tool I use before but it is lacking picture support as well.

Good evening all,

I am having a problem with RhythmBox on Ubuntu 10.10. I freshly installed Ubuntu almost a week ago and everything was great right off the bat. However, tonight I am having a small issue. In RhythmBox, I went into the Preferences section and went to check the quality level of the the CD Quality, Lossy profile (the ones that uses ogg) and it is missing from the Preferred Formats list. If I click the Edit button, I see it in the list of available profiles along with many others and it is set to active. Why would it not be in the Preferred Formats list, and more importantly, how could I get it back in the Preferred Formats list so I can rip a CD with it? Just as a side note, RhythmBox is playing ogg files without problem.

Thanks for any help anyone can provide!