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I'd use Sound Converter except it just hangs. It works fine for the odd file or two, but I need to do a lot of files from different directories and it just doesn't like it.

I'm searching for all .ogg files and want them transcoding to AAC with tags intact. (I prefer Vorbis but slack old Sony haven't bothered adding the codec to my car stereo...)

So is there an alternative?

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Use Clementine

It's a little awkward, but it can be done as follows.

  1. Make a playlist of all the music you want.

  2. Select all items in the playlist, right click and choose Organise files...

  3. Make a copy of all the files in a new directory, but removing the directory nesting, i.e. so they will all be in one directory. I do this by using
    convert_these/%artist__%album__{%track - }%title.%extension

  4. Next choose Tools menuTranscode Music. From this dialogue box you can add all the files from your new convert_these directory, and it will make converted copies along side these files.

  5. You can then delete all the copied originals from your convert_these folder with your favourite file manager.

  6. Finally, you can add all these new files into a new playlist, and use the *Organise files...` tool again to move them into whatever folder structure you need.

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