Re: lame and linux!

awesome! thanks guys!
I'll try that this morning.

cheers,
-Ken


On 8/3/06, Stephen Swinsburg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Heres the perl equivalent:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> #
> # script to process all mp3 files under a given directory or directories
> #
>
> use File::Find;
> no warnings 'File::Find';
>
> #the @array holds the dirs you want to search, you can specify
> multiple dirs here or just one,
> #uncomment appropriate one
> #@directories_to_search = ("/path/to/your/directory/", "/path/to/your/
> directory2/");
> @directories_to_search = "/path/to/your/directory/";
>
> find(\&processFiles, @directories_to_search);
>
> #this function is called on every file and dir that is found under the
> sub processFiles() {
>
>     #check if its a .mp3 file
>     if ($_ =~ /(mp3)$/) {
>        #the filename found is stored in $_ so we can use that directly
>        $command = "lame -b 64 -f -m s $_ stream_$_";
>        $result = `$command`;
>     }
> }
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 04/08/2006, at 12:40 PM, Warren Toomey wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 06:29:12PM -0400, Ken wrote:
> >> 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
> >
> > Write a script called /tmp/z like this
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > infile=$1
> > dir=`dirname $infile`
> > base=`basename $infile`
> > outfile="$dir/stream_$base"
> > lame -b 64 -f -m s $infile $outfile
> >
> > Make it executable, and test it with a single input file.
> > Now apply it to the whole directory:
> >
> > find dir -name '*.mp3' -exec /tmp/z {} \;
> >
> > where dir is the top-level directory name.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >       Warren
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