Re: lame and linux!

hmm, i don't really know perl, though i know php/asp/vb very well.

but i thought that maybe i could just use grep to find the files and parse
the names into the lame command line.


On 8/3/06, Stephen Swinsburg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Ken,
> Probably easiest to write a quick perl script to search through the
> directories and encode each one it finds with your settings.
> Hint: Use the File::Find module and give it the top most directory
> and it will recurse through every directory it finds.
>
> Hope this helps!
> Steve
>
>
>
>
> On 04/08/2006, at 8:29 AM, Ken wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I'm new to the list, and new to lame, but i love it so far!! it's
> > exactly
> > what we need for our web site.
> >
> > I'm posting because I'm wondering how this can be done.
> >
> > I've got about 30 gig's of mp3's on our web site ( all legal! ),
> > all the
> > mp3's are in folders for the bands they belong too, we'd like to
> > enable
> > on-demand streaming in a lower bit rate then when the use has
> > uploaded, as
> > such I've added code to re-encode mp3's as they are being uploaded,
> > but all
> > for the existing mp3's, is it possible in the Linux shell to use
> > maybe grep
> > or something to go though all the folders and re-encode every
> > single mp3 one
> > at a time using this command
> >  lame -b 64 -f -m s SongName.mp3 stream_SongName.mp3
> > of course replacing SongName with the actual song name. and also
> > have them
> > placed back in the folder where the original file was?
> >
> > hope you guys understand what I'm saying here. any ideas would be
> > great!
> >
> > thanks in advance for your time,
> > -Ken
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