[LAD] [LAU] mp3tom4a via find and ffmpeg

[guerrier]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:36 PM, David <dplist at free.fr> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:10:58 -0400
> guerrier <guerrier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hello
>>
>> can someone please help me with this?
>>
>> i can find all the mp3s in a directory and its sub-directories with
>> this:
>>
>> find -name "*.mp3"
>>
>> i can also ffmpeg a mp3 to m4a with this:
>>
>> ffmpeg -i INPUT.mp3 -y -acodec libfaac -ab 192k OUTPUT.m4a
>>
>> now, i would like to pipe all that find finds into ffmpeg.
>
> You could try something like this :
>
> find . -name '*.mp3' | while read f
> do
> ffmpeg -i "$f" -y -acodec copy -ab 192k "${f%.mp3}.m4a"
> done
>
> That should properly handle filenames containing spaces.
>
> HTH
>
> -- David
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Many thanks.  I'll try it and report back.

guerrier