Over the past month I have made it my goal to stop using the proprietary MP3 format for audio in favor of the free, open standard Ogg Vorbis format. The primary reasons for doing this is 1) Modern Linux distributions do not ship with mp3 support built in (due to licensing constraints) and 2) My [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Aug 31st, 2009
- Comments: 11
Convert various media formats to Vorbis in Linux
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Aug 11th, 2009
- Comments: 1
Convert Youtube videos to audio in Linux
After reading Martin’s fine article “Download Youtube Videos” today, I had to give a bit of a Linux perspective and show how to do this in the Linux operating system. Inititially I assumed this would have to be done via the command line, because that is how I have always done conversions. But I have [...]
