This script may be of interest and value :
| File: convertomp3 |
#!/bin/bash # # Usage: convertomp3 fileextention # if [ $1 = "" ];then echo 'Please give a audio file extention as argument.' exit 1 fi for i in *.$1 do if [ -f "$i" ]; then rm -f "$i.wav" mkfifo "$i.wav" mplayer \ -quiet \ -vo null \ -vc dummy \ -af volume=0,resample=44100:0:1 \ -ao pcm:waveheader:file="$i.wav" "$i" & dest=`echo "$i"|sed -e "s/$1$/mp3/"` lame -V0 -h -b 160 --vbr-new "$i.wav" "$dest" rm -f "$i.wav" fi done |
Running convertomp3 wma will covert every .wma file in the current folder to .mp3.