oggasm(1)

NAME
oggasm - a perl script to perform batch conversion of mp3s into oggs

DESCRIPTION
oggasm has no arguments, rather it holds a conversation with the user to optain relevant information. It will request the full path name of the folder containing the mp3s that are to be converted. It will also inquire about the desired bit rate and what niceness you want to run oggasm. It also will want to know how the mp3s are named. Use the %n, %t, %a, and %b meta characters to describe how your files look. So if your mp3s are named "title - artist - track number" you will want to enter: "%t - %a - %n" (no quotes) If you use something other than dashes to seperate the various identifers, that's fine. So, if your files are named "track number : (artist) * title" then you will want to enter:
 %n : (%a) * %t (no quotes) The program can convert 4 different ways: 1) It can place the ogg in the same folder the mp3 was found in and delete the mp3. 2) It can place the ogg in a different folder the mp3 was found in and delete the mp3. 3) It can place the ogg in the same folder the mp3 was found in and not delete the mp3. 4) It can place the ogg in a different folder the mp3 was found in and not delete the mp3. One warning... if you don't delete the mp3s you will need as much free space on your drive as your mp3s currently occupy. After the conversion is completed, a log will be placed in your home director called oggasm.log which will contain all of the actions oggasm took.

OPTIONS
This program takes no command line arguments

SEE ALSO
oggenc(1) and mpg321(1)

AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Sean Kellogg <skellogg@u.washington.edu>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).