Bladeenc is much easier but, more importantly, why use an inferior
format. Ogg Vorbis is much better. Use oggenc. If your friends are
running Windoze they can use the latest version of Winamp to
play/convert it. You don't need a script, one command will do it:
find . -name "*.wav" -print -exec oggenc -q 5 {} \;
Jan
On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 02:18, R Parker wrote:
> 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~
>
>
>
>
>
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