[SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3

[Daryl Thompson]

Hi 

I have 287Gb of my music still on an external HD in Windows Wma format
in multiply directory's under a top directory of "wma"
i wish to mass convert these files and do a little tidy up on them
I have 3 main goals to achaive

1. Converting the wma to mp3
2. Removing the wma after converting
3. removing the old desktop.ini files in these directory

i have looked around the net and the best so far is the bash file below.
this will convert the wma but wont handle recursive directory.

Could some one please help me archive my goals

{SNIP}

#!/bin/bash
#############################################################
# wma2mp3 v0.12
# by Calum and Void Main
#
# e.g. wma2mp3 myfile.wma
# e.g. wma2mp3 myfile.wma myfile2.wma myfile3.wma
# e.g. wma2mp3 "my file.wma" "my file 2.wma" "my file 3.wma"
# e.g. wma2mp3 *.wma
# e.g. wma2mp3 /directory/containing/wma/files
# e.g. wma2mp3 .
#
# http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=407
#
# History:
# 16 May 2003 - v0.1 wma2mp3 script created
# 27 August 2005 - v0.11 -aofile had been deprecated, corrected
# 28 August 2005 - v0.12 Added "IFS=" -Void
#############################################################

# Turn off input field separation so filenames with spaces work
IFS=

#############################################################
# Move the conversion process into a function that can
# be called.
# The "&&" makes it so each step must be successful before
# the next step will be done.
#############################################################

function wma2mp3 () {
  if [ ! -f "$1" ]; then
     echo "File $1 not found!"
  else
     mplayer -ao pcm:file="${1%%.[Ww][Mm][Aa]}.wav" "$1" &&
     lame -h -b 192 "${1%%.[Ww][Mm][Aa]}.wav" "${1%%.[Ww][Mm][Aa]}.mp3"
&&
     rm -f "${1%%.[Ww][Mm][Aa]}.wav" ||
     echo "There was a problem with the conversion process!"
  fi
}

#############################################################
# Not enough information to compute
#############################################################
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
   echo "Syntax: `basename $0` <wmaFilename(s)|wmaDirectory>"
   exit
fi

#############################################################
# Directory was passed so convert all wma files in directory
#############################################################
if [ $# -eq 1 -a -d "$1" ]; then
  for file in $1/*.[Ww][Mm][Aa]
  do
    wma2mp3 "$file"
  done
  exit
fi

#############################################################
# One or more wma files were passed, convert them
#############################################################
for file in $*
do
  wma2mp3 "$file"
done
exit

{/SNIP}





regards

Daryl Thompson

Ph : 0408 472 041
E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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