20 Oct
2005
20 Oct
'05
8:42 a.m.
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:09:30PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Sorry, that's what I meant, the container.
Instead of:
for a in *.wav; do sndfile-convert -pcm16 $a $a.wav;done
mv *.wav some-folder/
rename .wav.wav .wav *
(I know about basename and that I could have put a destination
directory in there. Wouldn't make things actualy simpler, though)
I would have liked to do something like:
mkdir destination
sndfile-convert -pcm16 -d destination -c wav *.wav
When input and output files use different containers, the second
version would become even simpler.
Things like this are no big deal, once you know (and don't forget
again!) bash's 'for' construct ...
Erik: but I'm happy sndfile-convert exists and does its job,
so thanks for that! :)
---
Thorsten Wilms
I used
sndfile-convert for that. Too bad it doesn't take a flag for
the output format, but requires filenames for that.
sndfile-convert understands -pcm16, -pcm24 and others.
It only uses the file extension to figure out the desination
file's container type (AU, AIFF, WAV etc).