On Tuesday 06 December 2005 4:47 pm, Robin1229 wrote:
> thanks, robert! that's just what i need. robin
altho i would use this for lame:
lame --preset insane *wav
this basically creates the mp3 at 320, which is, uh, insane, but it's the
highest quality level.
& here's a bonus: convert wav to flac.
shntool conv -o flac *.wav
you'll need to do this 1st:
sudo apt-get install shntool
scott
> On 12/6/05, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Dec 6, 2005, at 4:15 PM, Robin1229 wrote:
> > > while we're sort of on the subject, scott mentioned he would tell me
> > > what command to use to convert all the wav files in a folder to mp3
> > > using lame. i figured out how to do a conversion on one file, but i
> > > would like to do them all at the same time. thanks! robin
> > >
> > >> On Dec 6, 2005, at 3:41 PM, Scott Granneman wrote:
> > >>> lame captured.wav captured.mp3
> > >>>
> > >>> if you don't want to use lame, substitute oggenc.
> >
> > The idea is to create a list of wav files and then cycle through
> > them, converting one at a time. For example,
> >
> > for file in *.wav ; do
> > lame $file ${file%.wav}.mp3
> > done
> >
> > The pattern "*.wav" creates the list.
> > The for..do..done loop interates down the list, assigning a new name
> > to the variable "file" each time.
> > The "lame" command converts the files. The ${//} syntax changes the
> > file ending from wav to mp3.
> >
> > Personally, I'd add two extra items:
> >
> > 1) a check to see if the mp3 already exists. If it does, move on
> > the next wav file.
> > 2) echo the lame command. This gives me a chance to review the
> > commands before I commit to them.
> >
> > for file in *.wav ; do
> > [ -f ${file%.wav}.mp3 ] && continue
> > echo lame $file ${file%.wav}.mp3
> > done | sh
> >
> > Regards,
> > - Robert
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