How to Convert WAV to Ogg in Linux
Ogg is an open source, patent-free professional audio encoding and streaming format. Ogg is a compressed format, similar to MP3, but has an added advantage of not requiring licensing fees. As a compressed format, ogg files are much smaller than .wav files. Although ogg is primarily used on Linux systems, plugins are available for both Windows and Macintosh based computers. Ogg offers better audio quality than MP3 with file sizes very similar to MP3.
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Things You'll Need
- Computer running a Linux distribution
- Graphical user interface, either Gnome or KDE is best
- Sound Converter
Instructions
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Open Sound Converter. Sound Converter is an open source package for converting one audio format to another. If sound converter isn't installed on your system by default, it is available via the Synaptic Package Manager in the Administration options of your System menu.
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Click the plus (+) at the top of Sound Converter.
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Browse to the .wav file or files, select the desired file, and click "Open."
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Select "Preferences" under the Edit menu.
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Select Ogg Vorbis and select the quality of the audio conversion and click "Close." Quality settings are as follows: very low, 64 kbps; low, 96 kbps; normal, 128 kbps; high, 192 kbps; very high, 256 kbps. If you would like to have the files saved to a different location, chose the location in the Preferences dialog. Files can also be batch renamed by creating templates in this dialog.
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Click the "Convert" button at the top of Sound Converter. If the settings at the top of the Preferences dialog were left at default, the .ogg files will be in the same directory as the original .wav files.
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Tips & Warnings
Sound Converter is usually installed as a default package with the Ubuntu and Debian versions of Linux.
Converting a large number of files can take a long time.
Sound Converter is also useful for converting Ogg files to MP3 or vice versa.
Ogg files are not supported by many commercial digital audio players.
