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atsit
 PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2012 7:41 am   

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Hi. i am running debian 6.0.6 and i am banging my head to create a simple script that will run periodically (through cron).
i do have a whole lot of wav files in opt/wavfiles and i do need:
-convert them to mp3
-delete the wav files that have been converted to mp3
-compress the files and move the compressed file to /opt/mp3backups. every time there will be a new compressed file.
is there a simple script ready for the job?
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cfajohnson
 PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2012 5:41 pm   

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Code:
bak=/opt/mp3backups

wav=file.wav
mp3=${wav%wav}mp3

if lame "$wav" "$mp3"
then
rm "$wav"
compress "$mp3"
mv "$mp3.z" "$bak"
fi
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DarthWavy
 PostPosted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:17 am   
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Hi,

It's kinda pointless to compress mp3 files. mp3 is a form of compression that works great for music. Compressing the mp3 will gain you maybe 2% of the space, likely less, so pointless :)

DW
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