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reads audio data in either raw, WAV, or AIFF format and encodes it into an
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Ogg Vorbis stream. If the input file "-" is specified, audio data is
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option is used to redirect the output. By default, disk files are
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output to Ogg Vorbis files of the same name, with the extension
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changed to ".ogg". This naming convention can be overridden by the
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option (in the case of one file) or the
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option (in the case of several files). Finally, if none of these
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extension (that part after the final dot) replaced with ogg, so file.wav
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Show command help.
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Assume input data is raw little-endian audio data with no
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header information. If other options are not specified, defaults to 44.1kHz
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stereo 16 bit. See next three options for how to change this.
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.IP "-B n, --raw-bits=n"
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Sets raw input sample size in bits. Default is 16.
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.IP "-C n, --raw-chan=n"
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Sets raw input number of channels. Default is 2.
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.IP "-R n, --raw-rate=n"
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Sets raw input samplerate. Default is 44100.
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.IP "\-B n, \-\-raw\-bits=n"
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Sets raw mode input sample size in bits. Default is 16.
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.IP "\-C n, \-\-raw\-chan=n"
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Sets raw mode input number of channels. Default is 2.
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.IP "\-R n, \-\-raw\-rate=n"
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.IP "\-\-raw\-endianness n
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Quiet mode. No messages are displayed.
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.IP "-b n, --bitrate=n"
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.IP "\-b n, \-\-bitrate=n"
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Sets encoding to the bitrate closest to n (in kb/s).
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.IP "-m n, --min-bitrate=n"
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.IP "\-m n, \-\-min\-bitrate=n"
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Sets minimum bitrate to n (in kb/s).
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.IP "-M n, --max-bitrate=n"
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.IP "\-M n, \-\-max\-bitrate=n"
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Sets maximum bitrate to n (in kb/s).
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.IP "-q n, --quality=n"
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Sets encoding quality to n, between 0 (low) and 10 (high). This is the default mode of operation.
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Set bitrate management mode. This turns off the normal VBR encoding, but allows
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much slower, and may also be lower quality. It is primarily useful for creating
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.IP "\-q n, \-\-quality=n"
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Sets encoding quality to n, between \-1 (low) and 10 (high). This is the default mode of operation, with a default quality level of 3. Fractional quality levels such as 2.5 are permitted. Normal quality range is 0 \- 10.
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Resample input to the given sample rate (in Hz) before encoding. Primarily
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Downmix input from stereo to mono (has no effect on non\-stereo streams). Useful
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.IP "\-\-advanced\-encode\-option optionname=value"
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Sets an advanced option. See the Advanced Options section for details.
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.IP "\-s, \-\-serial"
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Forces a specific serial number in the output stream. This is primarily useful for testing.
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.IP "-o output_file, --output=output_file"
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.IP "\-\-discard\-comments"
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Prevents comments in FLAC and Ogg FLAC files from being copied to the
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.IP "\-o output_file, \-\-output=output_file"
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.I output_file (only valid if a single input file is specified)
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.IP "-n pattern, --names=pattern"
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Produce filenames as this string, with %a, %t, %l, %G replaced by artist,
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title, album respectively (see below for specifying these). Also, %%
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.IP "-c comment, --comment comment"
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genre, artist, album, track number, title, and date, respectively (see below
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instances will be added to each of the input files specified. The argument
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.IP "-a artist, --artist artist"
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.IP "-d date, --date date"
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Sets the date comment field to the given value. This should be the date of recording.
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.IP "-t title, --title title"
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Note that the \fB-a\fR, \fB-t\fR, and \fB-l\fR options can be given
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there are input files,
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Specifying an output filename:
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oggenc somefile.wav -o out.ogg
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Specifying a high-quality encoding averaging 256 kbps.
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Specifying a maximum and average bitrate.
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Specifying a high\-quality encoding averaging 256 kbps (but still VBR).
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Specifying a maximum and average bitrate, and enforcing these.
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Specifying quality rather than bitrate (to a very high quality mode)
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Downsampling and downmixing to 11 kHz mono before encoding.
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Adding some info about the track:
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oggenc somefile.wav -t "The track title" -a "artist who performed this" -l
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string given as an argument to -n is used to generate filenames, as shown
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string given as an argument to \-n is used to generate filenames, as shown
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in the section above. This example gives filenames
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like "The Tea Party - Touch.ogg":
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like "The Tea Party \- Touch.ogg":
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oggenc -b 192 -a "The Tea Party" -l "Triptych" -t "Touch" track01.wav -t
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Encoding from stdin, to stdout (you can also use the various tagging
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