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Fast OGG Encoder (fastoggenc) is an audio conversion tool.

'''fastoggenc''' is a free software python script (GPL v3) which converts mp3, m4a, wma, wav and other audio formats into ogg-vorbis format. It is a fork from dir2ogg script that was previously insipred by the perl script mp32ogg.

==Downloads:==
Current release: 0.1.4 (28.09.2010) - [http://software.tuxamito.com/fastoggenc/fastoggenc-0.1.4.tar.gz Download]

[[Download older fastoggenc releases]]

[http://sourceforge.net/projects/fastoggenc/ Download from sourceforge]

==Instalation:==

For manual instalation just download the latest release, decompress, and run the installer:

<code># tar zxvf fastoggenc-0.1.x.tar.gz</code> 
<code># cd fastoggenc</code> 
<code># sh install.sh</code>

==Dependencies:==
{| class="wikitable"
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! Format !! Recommended !! Alternatives
|-
| APE (Monkey's Audio) || mac || mplayer
|-
| MP3 || mpg321 || lame, mplayer
|-
| MP4/M4A/ACC || faad || alac-decoder, mplayer
|-
| FLAC || flac || ogg123, mplayer
|-
| MPC (Musepack) || mpcdec || mplayer
|-
| WMA/ASF || mplayer || ---
|-
| WV (WavPack) || wvunpack || mplayer
|}

==Basic Usage:==
Here are some examples. You will get more information running <code>fastoggenc -h</code>. The script will automatically detect the number of cores in the system, and use them all (unless it is otherwise specified with the -x option).

===Convert files:===
<code>$ fastoggenc foo.mp3 # one file...</code> 
<code>$ fastoggenc -t foo.mp3 # one file (keep quality, only for mp3)...</code> 
<code>$ fastoggenc foo1.mp3 foo2.m4a foo3.wma foo4.wav # multiple files...</code>

===Convert directories:===
<code>$ fastoggenc /path/to/music # single directory...</code>

<code>$ fastoggenc /path/to/music # single directory..., same as previous one.</code> 
<code>$ fastoggenc -r /path/to/music # single directory (and subdirs)...</code> 
<code>$ fastoggenc -r /path/1/ /path/2 /path/3 # recursive...</code> 
<code>$ fastoggenc -r -d /destionation/directory /path/to/music</code> 
<code> # the converted files will be stored in /destination/directory</code>

<code>$ fastoggenc -r -x 4 /path/to/music # 4 files will be converted at the same time</code>

==How can you help?==
* Use it
* Report bugs
* Write patches and new features
* Test it
* Make packages for your distribution
* Make translations to other languages

==Why a fork from dir2ogg?==
I was using mp32ogg to convert my audio files into ogg. Later I moved to dir2ogg. But I realized that it was only converting one file at a time, and having a 4 core processor, 3 cores where idle. What a waste of time! So I decided to edit the script to add multithreading. Later I sent the match to the developers of dir2ogg, but they refused the patch.

So I decided to make a fork (from version 0.11.8) and realized other changes into dir2ogg.

A little benchmark I made in my 4 core processor computer... encoding 40 mp3 songs:
{| class="wikitable"
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! '''fastoggenc''' !! '''dir2ogg'''
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| 1m 11s || 4m 6s
|}

==Differences with dir2ogg:==
* Multithreading.
* Internazionalization (using gettext).
* Output directory where the new ogg files are stored.
* Clean ups.
* Changed some of the encoding of the parameters.
* No CD-Audio conversion (for now).

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Daniel at 13:49, 26 April 2013

Daniel: /* Why a fork from dir2ogg? */

Daniel: Created page with "Fast OGG Encoder (fastoggenc) is an audio conversion tool. '''fastoggenc''' is a free software python script (GPL v3) which converts mp3, m4a, wma, wav and other audio forma..."