Hi Jos, I use lame. From my script: elif [ "$extension" = wav ]; then echo "Converting $i to ${i%.*}.mp3 be patient!" lame -h $i ${i%.*}.mp3 else If you want the script, I'll send it to you. It's not that great because it's partially a learning experiment and builds an array from the contents of a directory--not necesarry but you can strip the array code out. It also assumes the directory structure ~/clients/clientname/wav, ~/clients/clientname/mp3, etc. At any rate, Lame produces mp3 files. I use it for that although I've never listened to one. :) ron --- Jos Laake <jos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey y'all, > > I have a script that I run when I close down my > studio > that copies all of my random recordings over to the > 'Dailies' area on my web site. But all of these > snippets > are .wav files (mostly from Timemachine & Audacity). > I'd like to have the script batch convert all the > .wav's > to .mp3's before the copy. That way, my musical > partners > don't have to download a 40MB .wav file to see if > they > want to work with a snippet. So what I really need > is > a high quality command line driven wav->mp3 > converter > that I can set up something like: > > convertorthang -o=mp3 *.wav > > and have it just do it... Oh, and not try to do it > again if the file already exists. > > Okay, I'll go Google around, but if anybody's got a > good > pointer for me, lemme know, eh? ;-) > > toodles! > ~Jos~ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/