question on creating an mp3

[Janina Sajka]

I think you just need a -R to make it recursive in the for statement.

ls -R

would descend through all the subdirectories.

Thomas Stivers writes:
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> On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 07:10:41 PM -0400, Scott Howell wrote:
> > This is off topic I know, but I have a question regarding how to perform 
> > a certain task.
> 
> Well off topic messages are the spice of life, where would we be without
> them. Besides this one is a lot more topical than most.
> 
> > I've got a directory of files, I want to take each name of a file and 
> > put it into a separate mp3 file, i.e. song1.mp3 would have a file called 
> > song1.talk associated with it.
> > Now I will use the DECtalk software to do this. I will have say speak 
> > the file name and then pipe that using a simi colon into sox to make a 
> > wav or mp3 file whichever.
> > In any case the problem is I'm not so sure how to feed say each file 
> > name. I suspect using a loop statement (if that's the correct term) in a 
> > script that would feed the file names from ls into say and on from 
> > there.
> > My thought was along these lines and any help appreciated. Not a Bash 
> > expert.
> 
> Well here goes nothing I hope this is at least close to what you're
> after.
> 
> for file in `/bin/ls *.mp3`; do
> file = "${file/%.mp3/}"
> 	say -a "$file" -fo "${file}.tmp"
> 	lame "${file}.tmp" -o "${file}.talk"
> 	rm "${file}.tmp";
> done
> 
> This is a little more complicated than you asked for, but it
> removes the .mp3 from the ends of the file names and says them
> using dectalk, then it uses lame to encode the result. My
> version of sox could only read not write mp3's so I had to use
> lame instead.
> 
> Now the next even cooler step would be to make the whole thing
> recursive so it could handlke an entire tree of music all sorted
> by artist and album, but I don't know if i'm up for that right
> now.
> 
> HTH
> 
> - -- 
> "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
> by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
> 
> Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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