8 Jan
2005
8 Jan
'05
11:23 a.m.
Hi.
I need to convert a large no of ogg's to mp3.
I know that I can convert them one at a time with sox but this is going
to be fairly tedious for >1000 files.
Does anyone know of graphical way of doing this or failing that how I
get sox to convert an entire directory tree of files. (nb I don't need
the id3 stuff)
Thanks for your help.
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rob
8 Jan
8 Jan
11:33 a.m.
"find" is your friend ;)
Try something like:
find . -name \*.ogg -print -exec sox ..... {} \;
I don't really know sox. If you send me the command you're using to
convert one file I'll put the find command together for you (or a shell
script).
Jan
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 09:23, rob wrote:
Hi.
I need to convert a large no of ogg's to mp3.
I know that I can convert them one at a time with sox but this is going
to be fairly tedious for >1000 files.
Does anyone know of graphical way of doing this or failing that how I
get sox to convert an entire directory tree of files. (nb I don't need
the id3 stuff)
Thanks for your help.
1:50 p.m.
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 10:04 -0600, Jan Depner wrote:
"find" is your friend ;)
Try something like:
find . -name \*.ogg -print -exec sox ..... {} \;
I don't really know sox. If you send me the command you're using to
convert one file I'll put the find command together for you (or a shell
script).
thanks for your help
to convert the files I'm just doing:
sox /shared/music/albums/albumName/song.ogg ~/mp3/albumName/song.mp3
using find I'm not sure how I change the extension from ogg to mp3.
Jan
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 09:23, rob wrote:
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rob
Hi.
I need to convert a large no of ogg's to mp3.
I know that I can convert them one at a time with sox but this is going
to be fairly tedious for >1000 files.
Does anyone know of graphical way of doing this or failing that how I
get sox to convert an entire directory tree of files. (nb I don't need
the id3 stuff)
Thanks for your help.
2:51 p.m.
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 11:50, rob wrote:
to convert the files I'm just doing:
sox /shared/music/albums/albumName/song.ogg ~/mp3/albumName/song.mp3
using find I'm not sure how I change the extension from ogg to mp3.
Here's the simple solution:
cd /shared/music/albums
find . -name \*.ogg -print -exec sox {} {}.mp3 \;
This will take any file under /shared/music/albums and create an mp3
file with the same name plus a .mp3 extension. In other words,
/shared/music/albums/albumName/fred.ogg will still be there but so will
/shared/music/albums/albumName/fred.ogg.mp3. When it's finished you can
move them wherever you want and use rename to change the name from
*.ogg.mp3 to just .mp3 (although leaving it as .ogg.mp3 would at least
tell you that you've converted from one compressed format to another).
Jan
4:57 p.m.
sox
/shared/music/albums/albumName/song.ogg ~/mp3/albumName/song.mp3
[...]
cd /shared/music/albums
find . -name \*.ogg -print -exec sox {} {}.mp3 \;
This will take any file under /shared/music/albums and create an mp3
file with the same name plus a .mp3 extension.
[...] 
8:54 p.m.
mdeboer(a)iua.upf.es escribe:
To change the extension, you could use sed.
find . -name "*.ogg" | while read filename; do \
sox "$filename" "`echo $filename | sed -e 's/\.ogg$/.mp3'`"
\
done
There Is More Than One Way To Do It(TM):
for filename in `find . -name "*.ogg"`; do \
sox "$filename" "`basename $filename .ogg`.mp3" \
done
2:58 p.m.
rob escribe:
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 10:04 -0600, Jan Depner wrote:
Then basename is also your friend. :)
"find" is your friend ;)
Try something like:
find . -name \*.ogg -print -exec sox ..... {} \;
I don't really know sox. If you send me the command you're using to
convert one file I'll put the find command together for you (or a shell
script).
thanks for your help
to convert the files I'm just doing:
sox /shared/music/albums/albumName/song.ogg ~/mp3/albumName/song.mp3
using find I'm not sure how I change the extension from ogg to mp3. 
4:41 p.m.
On Saturday 08 January 2005 18:50, rob wrote:
using find I'm not sure how I change the extension
from ogg to mp3.
most times i use something like this (using Bash):
find . -name '*.ogg' | while read f
do
sox "$f" "${f/.ogg/.mp3}"
done
this way spaces in filenames do not cause trouble.
Wilbert
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4:51 p.m.
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 14:40, Wilbert Berendsen wrote:
On Saturday 08 January 2005 18:50, rob wrote:
Good point. I forgot about those stinking spaces!
Jan
using find I'm not sure how I change the
extension from ogg to mp3.
most times i use something like this (using Bash):
find . -name '*.ogg' | while read f
do
sox "$f" "${f/.ogg/.mp3}"
done
this way spaces in filenames do not cause trouble.
Wilbert
5:01 p.m.
Hallo Wilbert,
sox "$f" "${f/.ogg/.mp3}"
I read your post just after I sent mine. I didn't know the ${//} trick,
which is definitely easier than my `echo | sed` to obtain the same... Oh
well, I guess the sed constriction _does_ come in useful when doing more
complex replacements (I suppose the ${//) only does literal string
replacement?)
maarten
6:17 p.m.
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 10:01:46PM +0100, mdeboer(a)iua.upf.es wrote:
complex replacements (I suppose the ${//) only does
literal string
replacement?)
The first expression can use any of bash's pattern-matching wildcard
characters: *?[]
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5:43 p.m.
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 03:23:56PM +0000, rob wrote:
Hi.
I need to convert a large no of ogg's to mp3.
I know that I can convert them one at a time with sox but this is going
to be fairly tedious for >1000 files.
With sox? I though sox couldn't do mp3.
It's this a shell one-liner using find and lame and the approriate
shell expression to make the output filenames?
Does anyone know of graphical way of doing this
Graphical ways aren't usually the best solution to a batch problem.
[...]
OK I tried this. I came up with:
1) create a local shell script called conv containing these lines:
#!/bin/sh
echo converting $1 to ${1/\.wav/.mp3}
lame $1 ${1/\.wav/.mp3}
2) Make it executable:
$ chmnod +x conv
3) run find
find . -name "*.wav" -exec ./conv {} \;
All wav files in the local directory and its subdirectories will be
converted to mp3: the names will be the same with .wav changed to .mp3
It that's not exactly what you wanted, edit accordingly.
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