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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 [...]

I really dont like the 3gp format, but most mobile phones use it. So when I download the movies from my phone to my Ubuntu box I like to convert them to mpeg.
Here’s how:
First we need ffmpeg, a complete solution to record, convert and stream
audio and video.

apt-get install ffmpeg

After the install, converting videos is easy:

ffmpeg [...]