[Techtalk] recording music CDs- batch conversions

[John Clarke]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:17:57AM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:

> $ sox soundfile.au filename.cdr
> $ sox filename.cdr filename.wav
> 
> Well, a person could die of old age doing a lot of files this way. Any brainy 
> notions? I think something like this should work:
> 
> $ for i in 'ls *.au';do echo -e "$i";sox $i.cdr;done

Almost, but not quite.  You need to remove the file extension before
adding '.cdr' and passing it to sox (split into multiple lines for
readability).  Try this:

    for i in `ls -1 *.au|cut -d. -f1`
    do 
        echo $i
        sox $i.au $i.cdr
        sox $i.cdr $i.wav
    done


Cheers,

John
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