FFMPEG ~~~~~~ To start off, here is how it goes... % will mean your basic bash shell ready to take your commands file will mean your music-file-name ending with the extension (eg. file.mp3 or file.ogg) also it might be (eg. file1.mp3 file2.mp3 and/or file3.wav) that sort of thing. result will mean that it is the finished product. ................................................................................................................ Basically this is just going to list a few of the commands that I use every once in a while and often forget or have to spend 10 minutes trial and error to re-learn. Well, here goes... Enjoy, have fun, play around, mix up, combine, change these commands, and see what else you can come up with. To make mp3 into ogg % ffmpeg -i file.mp3 -acodec vorbis -aq 60 -ac 2 -ar 44100 result.ogg This next one will do the same command as above but with one difference, it will work on every mp3 in the (current) directory. " same as above but in a '"for" loop' " % for X in *.mp3; do ffmpeg -i "$X" -acodec vorbis -ac 2 -ar 44100 -aq 60 "${X//.mp3/.ogg}"; done or % for X in ; \ % do ffmpeg -i "$X" -acodec vorbis -ac 2 -ar 44100 -aq 60 "${X//.mp3/.ogg}"; done or % for X in *.mp3; do ffmpeg -i acodec vorbis -ac 2 -ar 44100 -aq 60 "