lame encode an entire directory from the shell

graysky · 2009-11-25 20:44:49

I have a pile of wav files in a single directory that I need to encode with lame. I'm at a loss how to do it in a single operation. The below fails:

$ lame -V 2 *.wav
lame: excess arg 03_track no title.wav

Can someone recommend a GUI frontend for lame that'll run under GTK?

Last edited by graysky (2009-11-25 20:49:00)

Xyne · 2009-11-25 20:51:11

Do it in a "for" loop, e.g.

for WAV in *.wav; do
  lame -V 2 "$WAV"
done

Last edited by Xyne (2009-11-25 21:43:45)

azleifel · 2009-11-25 21:00:38

Same but with .wav replaced by .mp3 in each filename:

$ for file in *.wav; do lame -V 2 "$file" "${file%.*}".mp3; done

Last edited by azleifel (2009-11-25 21:05:25)

graysky · 2010-02-22 22:00:47

Thanks guys. How would I go about adding azleifel's one-liner to a right-click option in Gnome? That would be pretty slick.

PirateJonno · 2010-02-23 20:19:31

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