It’s hard for me to believe that I used to be a Microsoft/Windows fanboy. I used all their products and signed up for all their beta programs. Now, I’m a full time Linux user and open source fanboy (which happens to be a bit of an understatement). In my transition from Windows to Linux though, one thing I delayed doing was converting my music library to a non-proprietary format (wma). A few months back though, I finally decided to make the jump. After investigating, I finally decided on using ogg as my final format. I went back and re-ripped all of my old CDs, but there were some I couldn’t find, so I needed to convert the wma files to ogg. Now, there is the unfortunate downside of converting a compressed format to a compressed format, so I converted to a very high quality ogg format in my script to hopefully not lose too much (so far everything sounds pretty good).
All you need for this is oggenc and mplayer (yay).
#!/bin/bash
for file in ./*.wma; do
wavname=${file%.wma}.wav;
wavname=${wavname:2};
mplayer "$file" -ao pcm:file="$wavname";
oggname=${wavname%.wav}.ogg;
oggenc "$wavname" "$oggname";
rm "$wavname";
done
So what we just did was start up a for loop for each file in the working directory that ends with wma (*). Once we’ve done that, we remove the ridiculously large wav file leaving us with only the original wma and the converted ogg for your (hopefully positive) comparison.
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by Aaron Ball