[linux-audio-user] Re-encoding Stereo mp3's into Mono mp3's

[Frank Barknecht]

Hi,
Steven P. Ulrick hat gesagt: // Steven P. Ulrick wrote:

> But I have an additional question: how can I type that command so that
> it will re-encode all the mp3's in the folder?  

Use a loop in your shell. Assuming bash it is:

$ help for
for: for NAME [in WORDS ... ;] do COMMANDS; done
[...]

$ for i in *.mp3; do lame $i $i-mono.mp3 ; done

or for nicer filenames use basename:

$ for i in *.mp3; 
 do 
 filename = $(basename $i .mp3)
 lame $i $filename-mono.mp3 
done

ciao
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