Convert OGG to MP3

OGG shows up where engineers had a choice — game files, open-source projects, Bandcamp's download menu, voice chat exports — because it is a good format with no licensing strings. Then it meets a car stereo, an old player or a strict upload form, and the choice stops being yours. MP3 is the way out, and your browser decodes OGG natively.

  1. Your audio files

    Drop your OGG files here

    OGGOPUSMP3

    Your files are never uploaded.

  2. What you want back

  3. Your files

How to convert OGG to MP3

  1. Add your OGG files

    One clip or a game's worth. They are decoded by your browser and never uploaded.

  2. Leave it on MP3

    320 kbps. Or WAV, if the sounds are going into an editor.

  3. Save the results

    Individually, or as one zip.

What you get

Plays where OGG never will

MP3 works in everything with a headphone jack and most things without one. The soundboard clip, the ripped game effect, the Bandcamp track — after this, the device stops being the problem.

No decoder to install

Every current browser reads OGG Vorbis natively — measured here in Chromium, Firefox and WebKit, not assumed. Nothing downloads, nothing installs, and the first file converts as fast as the fiftieth.

Batches, with per-file honesty

A folder of sound effects converts in one pass. A file that turns out not to be audio fails on its own row, with the reason, and takes nothing else down with it.

Your files are never uploaded

The decode and the encode both run in this page. Watch the network tab if you like — the files stay yours.

Questions about OGG

Will it convert OGG files from games?
Yes, if they are ordinary Vorbis audio, which most are — OGG's royalty-free licence is exactly why game engines like it. A file that fails is usually not Vorbis inside: some games wrap other codecs or their own formats in an .ogg extension, and those need the game's own modding tools first.
What about .oga and .opus files?
Drop them in. OGA is the same container under a more formal name. Opus — the newer codec that voice chats export — decodes in current browsers too and converts the same way. Either way the answer comes from trying the file, and a failure is reported on the file, not hidden.
Does converting lose quality?
One generation, kept small: Vorbis is lossy, MP3 is lossy, and the re-encode at 320 kbps is the gentlest version of that step. For effects and speech it is inaudible. If the file is headed into an editor rather than a player, choose WAV and skip the second loss entirely.
Why does my phone play OGG but my car does not?
Phones ship full software decoders; cars and older gear ship whatever chips were cheap the year they were designed, plus MP3, which is always there. That asymmetry is most of this page's traffic.
Is it free, and is my file uploaded?
Free, no account, no limit. Runs entirely in your browser. Your files are never uploaded.

Need the words rather than the sound? The transcriber turns recordings into text, on this same no-upload model. Cleaning up a noisy recording first? Remove the background noise. Or see all the audio tools.