#41

Actually I’m finding this isn’t working. :confused: First of all it didn’t seem to be able to handle spaces in folder names, then when I removed spaces it just did… nothing. I can’t see anything I’m doing wrong on my end, very confusing

#42

Shell scripts have a tough time with filenames that have spaces, though usually that goes away if you put variables inside of quotes “$like_this”.

#43

For spaces and other special characters, you’ll need to escape them with a \
Such as:

$ find . -name Unreal\ Projects
./Unreal Projects
./Documents/Unreal Projects
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#44

Again: I was deliberately trying to work with your original one-liner. Yeah spaces in are not so fun.

On topic: I don’t have any spaces in file names, which to me seems like the simplest solution

Off topic: when doing more involved tasks, I quickly switch to python (from bash), I find it much more robust and elegant. For a purpose similar to yours I wrote a python script “a2wav”, which is an elaborate wrapper around sox.

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#45

Has anyone been playing with Ish? It’s an Alpine emulator for ipadOS/iOS. I almost entirely set up a Pi Hole with it :grinning:

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#46 
for file in *.wav; do ffmpeg -i $file -ar 44100 -b:a 320k ${file%.*}.mp3; done

save yourself (from all that clicking seriously)

edit: bonus: id3mtag

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#47

Ish looks nifty! Too bad it needs TestFlight

#48

yum - this looks better than sox

#49

I recently (over the last 2 years) became more aquatinted with the cli. And after compiling a number of open source sample packs (CardOne, SuperDirt, etc…) I was left with lots of non .wav files in several sample directories.

find . -type f ! -iname '*.wav' -delete

^^^was my friend. Pretty basic stuff, but I wish I would have been more willing to learn this a while back.

p.s. -iname because for whatever reason half the wav files were all caps.

p.p.s. Can’t wait to make use of id3mtag. Last month I discovered my old college external hard drive which barely works but I was able to scrape old data from. All my mp3s no longer have any metadata other than decent folder organization and file names.

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#50

youtube-dl "<URL HERE>" -o - | ffmpeg -i pipe: sample.wav

When you hear a sound in a YouTube video that you want to sample

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#51

If you have to tag a lot of music try beets as well http://beets.io it’s been working great for me.

#52

Gonna mention easytag here just so it’s out there. If you don’t mind occasionally using a GUI, it’s really powerful, can scan tags from directory structure or file names, reorganize by tags, do batch operations, etc.

#53

If you’re having trouble with spaces in paths when doing things like iterating over the output of ls, you can use

IFS="\t\n"

before your command. The IFS shell variable (“internal field separator”) governs how the shell splits strings, and here we set it to split on tabs and newlines only - the default value includes spaces.

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