Excerpts from Kristian Erik Hermansen's message of Tue Jan 22 05:24:39 +1100 2008: > 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
Umm, that's worth knowing about. rgh > > 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 -- You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
