RE: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3
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RE: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 09:52 +1100, Richard Heycock wrote: Don't use 'man find' - 'info find' is better. info is evil. Notice I said 'better' not 'best' :-) I too find info a PITA (and even more of a PITA to teach to noobs) and will have a play with the suggested pinfo. -- Sonia Hamilton http://SoniaHamilton.wordpress.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3
Excerpts from Kristian Erik Hermansen's message of Tue Jan 22 05:24:39 +1100 2008: On Jan 21, 2008 5:59 AM, Daryl Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 287Gb of my music still on an external HD in Windows Wma format in multiply directory's under a top directory of wma i wish to mass convert these files and do a little tidy up on them I have 3 main goals to achaive Have you considered OGG instead of MP3? Check out dir2ogg in Ubuntu if so... $ sudo aptitude install dir2ogg $ dir2ogg -d -r -f -g -v /path/to/my/music Umm, that's worth knowing about. rgh 1. Converting the wma to mp3 2. Removing the wma after converting dir2ogg can help you .. see above 3. removing the old desktop.ini files in these directory Another fun way (be careful)... find /path/to/my/music -name desktop.ini | while read line; do rm -i $line; done -- You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3
On Jan 22, 2008 12:59 AM, Daryl Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I have 287Gb of my music still on an external HD in Windows Wma format
in multiply directory's under a top directory of wma
i wish to mass convert these files and do a little tidy up on them
I have 3 main goals to achaive
1. Converting the wma to mp3
2. Removing the wma after converting
3. removing the old desktop.ini files in these directory
There's an awfully nifty utility called find that you can use
whenever you need to interact with directory trees recursively.
I'll give you an example for your first problem, and the rest should
seem fairly obvious from there:
find -type f -iname '*.wma' -exec wma2mp3 {} \;
Which means find anything in this directory tree that's a file whose
name matches '*.wma' and then execute 'wma2mp3 that file'.
Remember, with great power comes great responsibility! Before you run
any find commands you should first make sure you're doing what you
think you're doing. Especially don't trust find commands given to you
by some random guy from the internet.
Changing -exec blah to -exec echo blah will show you what command
you're about to run on lots and lots of files. You may even want to
copy-paste one of the lines of echo output to your terminal to dry-run
it on just one file.
Don't be too proud to double-check - I'm sure everyone here has a
great story or two about wiping their home directory.
Oh, and as always, man find will bring great enlightenment and happiness.
Sam
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Re: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3
On Jan 21, 2008 5:59 AM, Daryl Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 287Gb of my music still on an external HD in Windows Wma format in multiply directory's under a top directory of wma i wish to mass convert these files and do a little tidy up on them I have 3 main goals to achaive Have you considered OGG instead of MP3? Check out dir2ogg in Ubuntu if so... $ sudo aptitude install dir2ogg $ dir2ogg -d -r -f -g -v /path/to/my/music 1. Converting the wma to mp3 2. Removing the wma after converting dir2ogg can help you .. see above 3. removing the old desktop.ini files in these directory Another fun way (be careful)... find /path/to/my/music -name desktop.ini | while read line; do rm -i $line; done -- Kristian Erik Hermansen Know something about everything and everything about something. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 01:52:11AM +1100, Sam Gentle wrote:
On Jan 22, 2008 12:59 AM, Daryl Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I have 287Gb of my music still on an external HD in Windows Wma format
in multiply directory's under a top directory of wma
i wish to mass convert these files and do a little tidy up on them
I have 3 main goals to achaive
1. Converting the wma to mp3
2. Removing the wma after converting
3. removing the old desktop.ini files in these directory
There's an awfully nifty utility called find that you can use
whenever you need to interact with directory trees recursively.
I'll give you an example for your first problem, and the rest should
seem fairly obvious from there:
find -type f -iname '*.wma' -exec wma2mp3 {} \;
Can I suggest to quote the {} just in case
find -type f -iname '*.wma' -exec wma2mp3 {} \;
Which means find anything in this directory tree that's a file whose
name matches '*.wma' and then execute 'wma2mp3 that file'.
Remember, with great power comes great responsibility! Before you run
any find commands you should first make sure you're doing what you
think you're doing. Especially don't trust find commands given to you
by some random guy from the internet.
Changing -exec blah to -exec echo blah will show you what command
you're about to run on lots and lots of files. You may even want to
copy-paste one of the lines of echo output to your terminal to dry-run
it on just one file.
Don't be too proud to double-check - I'm sure everyone here has a
great story or two about wiping their home directory.
Oh, and as always, man find will bring great enlightenment and happiness.
Sam
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Re: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 01:52 +1100, Sam Gentle wrote: Oh, and as always, man find will bring great enlightenment and happiness. Don't use 'man find' - 'info find' is better. -- Sonia Hamilton http://SoniaHamilton.wordpress.com mobile in Mexico: +52-664-165-6914 (sms's preferred) celular en México: +52-664-165-6914 (prefiero mensajes cortos) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3
Sonia Hamilton wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 01:52 +1100, Sam Gentle wrote: Oh, and as always, man find will bring great enlightenment and happiness. Don't use 'man find' - 'info find' is better. Except that 'info' is such a horrible info reader. You might want to try pinfo instead: apt-get install pinfo yum install pinfo and then: pinfo find Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo - Perl : executable line noise Python: executable pseudo-code -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3
Sonia Hamilton wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 01:52 +1100, Sam Gentle wrote: Oh, and as always, man find will bring great enlightenment and happiness. Don't use 'man find' - 'info find' is better. And if you don't like the emacs-y navigation/keybindings of info - checkout the pinfo client that accesses the same information, but with more standard PC keybindings - e.g. the pgup, pgdown, and arrow keys actually work as you might expect. Sometimes pinfo isn't installed by default, but it's provided in most distributions. --Jeremy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3
Daryl Thompson wrote:
#
# Move the conversion process into a function that can
# be called.
# The makes it so each step must be successful before
No, the will not work as written. It must be used as a conjunction
on one command line, as in the following example:
mplayer blah lame goop
# the next step will be done.
#
function wma2mp3 () {
if [ ! -f $1 ]; then
echo File $1 not found!
else
mplayer -ao pcm:file=${1%%.[Ww][Mm][Aa]}.wav $1
lame -h -b 192 ${1%%.[Ww][Mm][Aa]}.wav ${1%%.[Ww][Mm][Aa]}.mp3
The above will not work as intended. Rather, you will see an error:
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `'
rm -f ${1%%.[Ww][Mm][Aa]}.wav ||
echo There was a problem with the conversion process!
fi
}
HTH
cheers
rick
p.s. as other posters have pointed out, find is your friend
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