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unfortunately my sound card isn't supported in 40khz mode, it is an onboard card in 48khz, so whenever i get a directory of mp3 files for instance, i have to convert them to wav with mpg321 and then resample with sox.

once i am in the directory of music, i would do

to each file individually, and then do

to each newly made wav file individually. i would like to have a script that converts all the mp3s to wav with mpg321 one after the other without having to retype it, and then resample them with sox one after the other, either as two separate scripts (for mpg321 and sox) or one together, whatever is easier.

this will save me a lot of time and be instructional.

This script will loop throu all files in your current directory, then chop off the file extension (this is to preserve the filename when you change the extension to .wav).
Then it'll encode as you wish it to. If the mpg321 is successful in running it'll resample the file with sox and naming the new one to "new_file.wav"

You could of course add some kind of error handling with an "else"-statement if the mpg321 fails.

Best regards
Fredrik Eriksson

thank you very much! works excellent (as long as the file names don't have any funny characters in it, i suppose sed would do the job to take out spaces/#/! and replace them with something legal, though i have thunar to do it without knowing any code).