How to convert a directory of .wav to .mp3?

[slackware]

Hey all,

After searching for hours I decided to post here in hope of finding a solution. I am trying to convert a directory of .wav files to .mp3 using lame. I can easily convert them file by file using the command below:

lame -h -b 192 whatever.wav whatever.mp3

This gets tiresome considering I have a large amount of wavs that I need to convert. I have researched on google for a script without any luck. I have also read the lame --help section.

What is the best way possible to achieve this without using a frontend. Have I over looked a command? or missed the magical url to the correct script to do this?

I appreciate any help I can get with this. Thanks

i suppose you could do lame -h or man lame to find out what sort of options for mass converting it can do. youcould likely do something like:

lame -h -b 192 *.wav

but i don't know if lame will automatically name each file and append the .mp3. you could potentially end out with one huge mp3

i would definitely look through lame's manpage to see what sort of mass converting options they have. (i know oggenc can do mass coverting)

[slackware]

Hey Sarah,

Thanks for replying. I tried lame -h -b 192 *.wav earlier. When using that command it did not detect any of the wavs in the directory. Earlier when viewing help/man pages it did not have any options for mass converting. Looks like I may be trying oggenc.

[slackware]

The solution was mlame. Just wanted to let you all know.

[gorn]

[quote author=slackware link=board=2;threadid=6502;start=0#61274 date=1046803691]
The solution was mlame. Just wanted to let you all know.
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another way of doing it would be a loop:

for i in *.wav; do
lame -arguments $i
done

in this case mlame is a better choice, but this is just useful to know for other commands