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Ever wanted to transfer some ogg or flac files to your old mobile phone that supports only mp3 or wav ?
I have!

There are two programs I recommend for these kind of jobs.

1. SoX, the swiss army knife of sound processing, is a command line utility that can convert various formats of audio files in to other formats. It can handle formats like .ogg (vorbis), mp3, wav, aiff, voc, snd, au,
gsm and several more.

Installation

sudo apt-get install sox

Usage

sox file.<old extension> file.<new extension>

Example

user@ubuntu:~/Music$ sox 06\ -\ R.E.M.\ -\ Losing\ My\ Religion.ogg 06\ -\ R.E.M.\ -\ Losing\ My\ Religion.wav
user@ubuntu:~/Music$ ls -la 06\ -\ R.E.M.\ -\ Losing\ My\ Religion.*
-rw-r–r– 1 user user 6986674 2008-04-12 15:41 06 - R.E.M. - Losing My Religion.ogg
-rw-r–r– 1 user user 47451644 2008-04-12 15:42 06 - R.E.M. - Losing My Religion.wav

2. Sound converter is a simple sound converter application for the GNOME environment. It reads anything the GStreamer library can read, and writes WAV, FLAC, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis files.

Installation

sudo apt-get install soundconverter

To enable MP3 output

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse

Usage

Applications > Sound and Video > Sound Convertor

You can add individual files or whole folders.

In Edit > Preferences you can select the output (result) and quality.

Deluge

Deluge is a Bittorrent client, created using Python and GTK+, for Linux and other Unix-Like operating systems.

The current version of Deluge is 0.5.5, you can find screenshots on their website.

Deluge features:

• Mainline DHT
• FAST protocol extension
• uTorrent Peer Exchange
• BitTorrent Protocol Encryption
• UPnP and NAT-PMP
• Proxy support for Peers, Tracker, DHT and Web-Seed
• Private Torrents
• Able to download multiple files in a single window
• Full preallocation and compact allocation
• Global and per-torrent speed limits
• Ability to select files from a torrent before beginning the download
• Option to prioritize the first and last pieces of a file, in order to allow for media previews
• Ability to specify global download directory, and a completed download directory
• Queuing system to better manage bandwidth between downloads
• Ability to stop uploading a torrent once it has reached a specified ratio
• Ability to minimize to the system tray, and optionally password protect the tray
• Blocklist Importer
• Desired Ratio
• Network Activity Graph
• Network Health Monitor
• RSS Broadcatcher
• Torrent Creator
• Torrent Notification
• Torrent Search

Installing Deluge:

sudo apt-get install deluge-torrent

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uTorrent is my favorite torrent client, unfortunately it works only on Windows. We can emulate Windows with wine and run uTorrent.

So first lets install wine:

sudo apt-get install wine

Now go to the uTorrent download page and get the latest version, in my case:

wget http://download.utorrent.com/1.7.5/utorrent.exe

Installing it is very easy, just run

wine utorrent.exe

and it will ask you to create shortcuts, click yes.

Now you should find a uTorrent shortcut on your desktop, you can also find it under the Wine menu in Applications.

Thats it!