"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:

On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 11:50, rob wrote: 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

On Saturday 08 January 2005 18:50, rob wrote: 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 -- Wilbert Berendsen (www.xs4all.nl/~wbsoft, www.kde.nl, www.kerklied.net) * Take back the web: www.mozilla-europe.org/nl/ * Free as in speech and beer: http://opencd.dischosting.nl/

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 To explain this: the output of find will be feeded, line by line, to the expression inside the while loop, setting the value of filename to each line. The expression inside the ` ` will be evaluated first - it's result is the value of $filename parsed by the regular expression that replaces .ogg at the end of the line (end-of-line is represented by the $ after ogg) with mp3. Also note the use of "*" instead of \*, which I guess is a matter of taste. Adding another | sed, you could easily substitute the folder as well. If you are not familiar with command-line scripting, this might all seem a bit complicated, but once you get used to it, you'll see it's really straightforward. And extremely powerful. maarten

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 03:23:56PM +0000, rob wrote: 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? 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. -- Anahata anahata(a)treewind.co.uk -+- http://www.treewind.co.uk Home: 01638 720444 Mob: 07976 263827

mdeboer(a)iua.upf.es escribe: There Is More Than One Way To Do It(TM): for filename in `find . -name "*.ogg"`; do \ sox "$filename" "`basename $filename .ogg`.mp3" \ done