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Ogg is an open format for encapsulating media file or stream oriented container which is widely used on the Internet via radio and live loads of videos that do not need video downloaded completely to start watching it.

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Disable Explorer's music style for folders containing mp3 files

Windows has this annoying feature that uses different Explorer options for folders containing music files like ogg or mp3. It removes the file size, it make the name column extremely narrow and it ...
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How to add multiple images (e.g. cover art) to Ogg/Opus?

Let's say I have two images. foo.jpg is 20×30. bar.jpg is 40×50. How do I add these, along with other metadata, to an ogg/opus file so that ogginfo reports them exactly as follows? User comments ...
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Change sample rate in OggOpus metadata (48 kHz to 44.1 kHz) without re-encoding

I have many Opus encoded files that play high pitched in any player because somewhere in the metadata they are marked as 48 kHz (or unmarked but assumed to be 48 kHz) but are in fact 44.1 kHz. If I ...
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How to convert a file to ogg audio only format?

I have used a few other examples i have found on this site but when i use them to convert say and mp3 or a flac file with embedded cover art, the resulting ogg file is treated more like a video file ...
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ffmpeg returns error cur_dts is invalid when converting mp3 to ogg

need some help with this part of code: ffmpeg -y -fflags +igndts -i "/var/radio-content/temp/music/85e45890-cdca-4754-aabf-295ce01dbf45.mp3" -map 0:0 -filter:a "loudnorm,silenceremove=...
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How to convert h.264 (MP4) to Theora (FFmpeg)

How to convert h.264 to Theora using FFmpeg. I generally use all the -qscale commands etc, but the quality is hopeless anyway. The point is that the movie freezes after a few seconds and only ...
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Windows crashing when using Explorer to move ogg vorbis files

Explorer takes forever to move ogg vorbis files, then hangs and I have to do a hard restart. My other file moving app works fine. I would prefer to use Explorer. On my NVME SSD everything works ...
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ffmpeg encoding using ogg with opus container

I am wanting to send whatsapp voice notes and we are needing to convert sample.mp3 to sample.ogg (with opus codec) is this command correct? ffmpeg -i sample.mp3 c:a libopus sample.ogg
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FFmpeg drops the Album Art

Everytime I encode my songs to lossy formats, the output file keeps the tags (title, artist, album, etc...), but drops the album art. I tried to encode to any lossy format, including AAC, OGG and ...
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abcde - inconsistent/unexpected track numbers

Question: How can I achieve my expected result of tracks that are numbered with sequential {DiscNumber}{TrackNumber} - Artist - Album.mp3? Background: When using abcde to rip a set of audiobook CDs, ...
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What two types of lossy audio are the best to compare quality and efficiency? [duplicate]

I'm planning to do a detailed research about comparing and contrasting two lossy audio type formats. However, now I'm struggling to determine the two types which I can do a lot of experiments and ...
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Add album art cover to an OGG/opus file from the command line

I managed to add an album art cover to an OGG/opus file with Kid3 - Audio Tagger but I'd like to do it via the command line on all the files of an album. I tried with ffmpeg but it did not work : $ ...
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How to play a raw OPUS stream?

I have a piece of software that outputs raw OPUS streams, without any container. I do know that it is mono and 16kib/s. However, opusdec or other tools I have tried to not want to read it, since it is ...
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Preserve metadata when converting .opus audio with embedded covers

Normally, when I run ffmpeg -i "$name.$oldext" "$name.ogg", where oldext is any of .opus, .m4a, or .flac, all metadata is preserved. However, I've just found that in the specific case where the ...
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Why does splitting a large audio file into many smaller audio files make the total size smaller?

I have split a large audio file into many smaller audio files. However; the many audio files seem to have a total size that is about half the size of the original file (!!!), why is this?! It happens ...
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Remove video / Extract audio from Ogg Theora Video to Ogg Vorbis

I have some songs that are in .ogg format but they also contain video (which just shows the album cover the whole song, if played in a video player). How can I losslessly remove the video part of the ...
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What's a good way of batch converting tracker files?

So, as the title says, I would like to know a good way to convert tracker files (*.mod, *.xm, *.s3m, et cetera) to a format like *.mp3 or *.ogg. A command-line solution would be preferred.
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How to use ffmpeg to encode ogg audio files?

I want to convert the following simple oggenc command to use ffmpeg instead: oggenc -b 8 input.wav -o out.ogg From the ffmpeg libvorbis wrapper doc, it says, The following options are supported ...
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How ffmpeg maps metadata?

I have my music library on my machine in flac and ogg format. However, to be able to listen to the music in the car, I convert the flac/ogg files to mp3 using ffmpeg. There are a couple of issues ...
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Convert Wav to Ogg

I have a folder with a large number of Wav files which I wish to convert to Ogg. How do I do this for the latest release of Mac Os X. I have tried to run Drop Ogg X but it does not work, complaining ...
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lossless concatenation of ogg vorbis files

I have a couple of ogg vorbis files, all encoded with the exact same properties that I want to concatenate into a single file. I know that the ogg vorbis format supports plain concatenation of ...
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Redirection to /dev/null block oggCat execution

I'm trying to use oggCat from another program, but when I call oggCat output.ogv file1.ogv file2.ogv ... filex.ogv > /dev/null the execution never ends. Is there any solution?
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Repair OGG files that have been extracted without a header

I have recently used a tool called FSBextractor to extract audio from a videogame. The program warns me that the files do not have headers and will not be playable. Upon extraction, the files are ...
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ffmpeg can't create Ogg Vorbis

I'm trying to convert a set of .PNG files and a .WAV file into an Ogg Vorbis video using ffmpeg on Windows 7. When I run "ffmpeg -codecs" I can see libvorbis listed, but when I try to use it in a ...
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Detect truncated mp3 or ogg files

I recently had a hard disk failure and could not rescue all my music files. Since I didn't have enough storage available to do a full backup of the disk, I tried to cp as many tracks as possible, but ...
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can ffmpeg muxer mux any encoded data packet into a container?

I just want to know is there a restriction, that one type of container only can contain numbers of special codecs encoded data packet. I afraid i don't explain myself well. To be more specific, is ...
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Why can I play ogg file but not convert to mkv or mp4 with FFMPEG?

I want to convert a ogg video to mp4 or mkv, but different errors appear. I have two streams (from the same source) that I captured. They are in an ogg container. If I try to convert them to mkv ...
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Universally fix/re-embed embedded album art?

Hi I recently tried adding my music collection to XBMC and was (re)incensed when I saw that yet another program didn't recognize more than 50% of the album art in my collection (I have had this ...
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Why are slightly different MKA chapter timecodes needed for WAV and OGG?

I am converting an audio CD to OGG format by ripping it to WAV (using cdparanoia) and encoding it as OGG (using oggenc). If I mux the WAV file to MKA with chapter timecodes as reported by cdparanoia -...
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Seek Issues in WebM (VP8 IVF/OGG) File

I have a file downloaded from the web this is the media below. General Format : WebM Format version : Version 2 File size ...
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Converting flv and mp4 video format to '.ogg' using FFmpeg

I have HostGator VPS server with FFmpeg installed. It allows me to convert .wmv to .flv as well as .mp4 files successfully using the following commands for flv and mp4: ffmpeg -i WantsABath.wmv -b ...
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Free tool to display audio ogg properties in Windows 7 Explorer? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I set Windows Explorer in Windows 7 to display metadata / tags of Ogg Vorbis (.OGG) files when in 'Details' view? Windows Explorer Vista/7 does not show ogg ...
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mkvmerge error "formats do not match" when appending oga files

we're using mkvmerge to concat user uploaded audio into a single file (this is all done from code in a django website). The command line looks like mkvmerge -o /path/to/output.webm -w /file/to/...
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Command line tool to write flac, ogg vorbis and mp3 id3v2 meta data?

Is there any command line tool that can write all three formats/containers? I've already searched but could not find anything that does the job. So far I'm using vorbiscomment, metaflac and id3tool ...
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Encoding to WebM and OggVorbis without changing original dimensions?

Trying to convert original Quicktime.movs to both WEbM and OggVorbis-Theora formats. Was using the free Miro video converter but when it converts it always uses preset sizes. Is there any way of ...
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Batch convert .wav to mp3 and ogg?

I have a few hundred .wav files that I need to convert to both ogg and mp3 format. Is there a way that I can do this in batch either from Audacity or from some other command line tool?
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Concatenating ogg video files from the command line

Okay. I've got a few ogg files I've created using a desktop recording tool. I've transcoded them using ffmpeg once (mainly to clip out the beginnings and the ends). Now, I have 3 such files which I ...
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Universal sound format

I have the following devices: Ubuntu machines PSP iPod with Rockbox installed XBox 360 My music collection is mainly encoded in OGG apart from a few bought albums in MP3. What is the most universal ...
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Convert mp3 to ogg vorbis

Is there a command-line utility to convert mp3s to ogg vorbis that I can install with apt-get? Alternatively, is there an extension for nginx so I can point it to a directory with mp3 files and have ...
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How to find out what the bitrate is of my audio file?

I wondered how I could find out what the bitrate is of my ogg audio file? My Operating System is Windows 7 32 bit, if that would make any difference.
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Is it possible to edit tags with cmus?

Is it at all possible to edit tags for .ogg files with cmus?
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Export iMovie 09/10 Project to Theora with 720p resolution

I select "export with QuickTime" Choose - OGG "Xiph Theora" is selected as codec. Actually, it's alone in the list of codecs. That's what i need. I can adjust quality, FPS ... but resolution ...
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Determine if any audio files are corrupted in a folder

I am attempting to run an application (the game, Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners Of The Earth), but at a specific part, there is always a crash. From my testing, I've determined with some degree of ...
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How do I set Windows Explorer in Windows 7 to display metadata / tags of Ogg Vorbis (.OGG) files when in 'Details' view?

How do I set Windows Explorer in Windows 7 to display metadata / tags (Artist, Song Title, etc.) of Ogg Vorbis (.OGG) files when in 'Details' view?
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How to extract audio from mov, or directly convert mov 2 ogg, on OSX?

I have a number of sound-only .mov files that I need in an audio format, preferably .wav or .ogg. What are the options to achieve this conversion on a Mac?
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Join many MP3, OGG, and FLAC files into one WAV or FLAC

I have 33 audio files, each about 11 seconds long, and I'd like to merge them into one lossless file. How can I do this efficiently (i.e. without cut-pasting in Audacity 33 times)?
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Embed album art in OGG through command line in linux

I want to convert my music from flac to ogg, and currently oggenc does that perfectly except for album art. Metaflac can output album art, however there seems to be no command line tool to embed album ...
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Command line to convert OGV to MP4 video files

I want to convert every [OGV|OGG] video file Ogg data, Skeleton v3.0 I have into MP4 or WebM. Can people please suggest a command line to do so, in order to keep the quality? Also do they need ...
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Playing .ogg video files on Windows XP

By default, Windows XP has no support for .ogg video files. What can be used to read and play these files?
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Converting mp3 to ogg, suggestions? [closed]

I'm thinking about converting my mp3 based music library to ogg, due to ogg being a free and open standard format (I guess there are other reasons too). As far as I know there's a chance of losing ...
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