On Jan 21, 2008 5:59 AM, Daryl Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Have you considered OGG instead of MP3? Check out dir2ogg in Ubuntu if so... $ sudo aptitude install dir2ogg $ dir2ogg -d -r -f -g -v /path/to/my/music > 1. Converting the wma to mp3 > 2. Removing the wma after converting dir2ogg can help you .. see above > 3. removing the old desktop.ini files in these directory Another fun way (be careful)... find /path/to/my/music -name desktop.ini | while read line; do rm -i "$line"; done -- Kristian Erik Hermansen "Know something about everything and everything about something." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html