[linux-audio-user] lame and filenames

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Subject: [linux-audio-user] lame and filenames
From: Mikhail Ramendik (mr_AT_ramendik.ru)
Date: Sun Sep 12 2004 - 04:06:14 EEST


Hello,

I need to encode some WAV files into MP3. I'm planning to use Lame.

Lame does not seem to accept wildcards, so I wrote a script-line:

for a in *.wav; do lame --preset cbr 256 $a ; done

But, this encodes *.wav into *.wav.mp3 . How do I make it drop the "wav"
from the name?

(If I need to do it by more elaborate scripting, please do tell me how;
I'm somewhat unfamiliar with bash scripting as yet)

Yours, Mikhail Ramendik


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