w2otk is rather easy to use. It assumes that you run it from a directory with music encoded in WAV format, and you want to convert them to ogg vorbis. Furthermore, it is assumed that all the WAV songs belong to the same album.

Once run, w2otk asks you for the album name, the artist name, the encoding quality and other generalities. It also asks for the name of each WAV song, and which songs should be encoded.

After you have given w2otk all the data it needs, hitting the "Encode" button will start the encoding process. w2otk will inform you on which song it is working both in a status line and in the console.

After it's finished, hit the "Exit" button. All the WAV files will still be present in the directory.

w2otk is released under the MIT Open Source license.

Current version is 0.1, released on June 7th, 2006. Despite the low version number, I've been using w2otk for several weeks now without a single problem or bug.

Here it is: w2otk-0.1.tcl

w2otk requires TCL and tile. Tile is a replacemnt for tk which, in my opinion, produces much cleaner-looking interfaces. You also must have oggenc installed. Oggenc is part of Vorbis Tools.

In principle w2otk can run in Windows and OS-X, if they have been properly configured with TCL. However, I have only tested it on Linux.

• TCL can be found here.

• Tile can be found here.

• Vorbis tools can be found here.

You can see w2otk in all its glory:

In this image w2otk is executing in a directory with 7 WAV files. We have provided the album name, artist name, genre, and encoding quality. We have decided we don't want to encode tracks 1 and 3, and have entered names for songs 2, 4 and 5. After we have entered names for songs 6 and 7, clicking on "Encode" will start the encoding process.

Please don't hesitate to contact me at this email address:

Miguel Bazdresch

This page was last updated on: 2007-07-05