1 Jun
2004
1 Jun
'04
3:43 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
It doesn't look like anyone explained the command line to you so I'll do
it real quick.
First the entire command is based on find (one of the most underused and
oft looked over commands I have come across, granted I have only been
doing this for a year or so)
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/find.1.html
so basically:
find
(name of the command)
.
(this directory)
-name "*.wav"
search for the pattern *.wav in the name of the files in this
dir
-print
prints the full filename of any matching files
-exec oggenc -q 5 {} \;
and the most powerful part of find, basically what this does is
that any files it finds run the following command line [up to the \;]
replacing {} with the files
So basically the commands runs through all the fiels in the current
directory and everytime it finds a wave runs
oggenc -q 5 mywave.wav
cool huh? I love linux :).
m.
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find . -name "*.wav" -print -exec
oggenc -q 5 {} \;
It does exactly the trick I need for making .ogg files out
of my wav's. Perfect! for ogg...
hack through them. But maybe also somebody could explain to
me what the above magic command line is doing so I can
subvert it to my own evil purposes. ;-) 
3 Jun
3 Jun
2:01 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] wav to mp3 converter
Matthew Allen wrote:
Yea, find is the bomb. You can use it for pretty much any kind of
repetitive action. Perl has a find too which means you can do it from a
web page through a CGI. And despite the subject line, I would also
recommend using oggenc. Smaller files better quality. Just like Beta
video cassettes </sarcasm>.
-lee
-----Original Message-----
It doesn't look like anyone explained the command line to you so I'll do
it real quick.
First the entire command is based on find (one of the most underused and
oft looked over commands I have come across, granted I have only been
doing this for a year or so)
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/find.1.html
so basically:
find
(name of the command)
.
(this directory)
-name "*.wav"
search for the pattern *.wav in the name of the files in this
dir
-print
prints the full filename of any matching files
-exec oggenc -q 5 {} \;
and the most powerful part of find, basically what this does is
that any files it finds run the following command line [up to the \;]
replacing {} with the files
So basically the commands runs through all the fiels in the current
directory and everytime it finds a wave runs
oggenc -q 5 mywave.wav find . -name "*.wav" -print -exec
oggenc -q 5 {} \;
It does exactly the trick I need for making .ogg files out
of my wav's. Perfect! for ogg...
hack through them. But maybe also somebody could explain to
me what the above magic command line is doing so I can
subvert it to my own evil purposes. ;-) 
8 Jun
8 Jun
5:21 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] wav to mp3 (and ogg) converter
Hey y'all,
I thought I'd jump back in and tell you what I came up with.
Since I really do agree with those who spoke up thart Ogg
is a better format, *AND* since so many of you were gracious
with script suggestions, and since I have oodles of server
space, I have easily added ogg conversion to my post-recording
scripts.
Here's how it goes. there are two scripts. The first one is
called
'syncdailies'
It removes old versions for me and then
uses find to call the conversion script.
(This happens in whatever directory I'm in when I invoke it.)
Then it goes and rsyncs the 'Dailies' directory on my audio
machine with the 'Dailies' directory on my webserver.
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#!/bin/sh
rm -f *old1.wav
find . -name "*.wav" -print -exec wav2mp3nogg {} \;
cd /directoryof/AllMusicProjects
chmod -R 755 Dailies
rsync -v --rsh=ssh -a Dailies me@myserver.net:/path-to-html/josmusic/
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The conversion script is called
'wav2mp3nogg'
It converts whatever.wav passed as the argument
into the equivalent whatever.mp3 and whatever.ogg
If the .mp3 or .ogg file already exists, it is skipped.
That is, it is not converted again.
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#wav2mp3
# converts from wav to mp3 and ogg
# coreutils must be installed!
input=$1
name=`basename "$input" .wav`
dir=`dirname "$input"`
mp3output="${name}.mp3"
oggoutput="${name}.ogg"
# Using lame:
if test -f "$dir/$mp3output"
then echo "$input not converted... $dir/$mp3output already exists!"
else lame -h --vbr-new -b 80 -B 192 --ta Jos --ty `date +%Y` "$input"
"$dir/$mp3output"
fi
# Using oggenc:
if test -f "$dir/$oggoutput"
then echo "$input not converted... $dir/$oggoutput already exists!"
else oggenc -q 5 "$input"
fi
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I hope this is helpful to someone else.
And huge thanks to everybody who helped
me put together this small but important
piece of my system.
May all your recordings have no xruns!
Peace,
~Jos~
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