I have looked on Google, but can't find a good program that will convert wma to mp3 on the command line. I want to write a batch file that will run a program to convert all my wma files to mp3 without the need for a GUI. Thx in advance!

11/10/2006 3:23:54 PM

I'm assuming you're using Linux?

I use this to convert all the wav's in a directory to mp3s. Might want to experiment some to get it to do wma..


#!/bin/bash -
# wav2mp3all

FILES=`ls *.wav`

for i in $FILES; do
OUT=`echo $i | sed -e 's/.wav//'`
lame -h -b 32 $i $OUT.mp3
done



I have the bitrate at 32 because its audio recordings from an AM broadcast.. You'll want to bumpt that up depending on what you are converting.

11/10/2006 3:35:38 PM

i'm actually using XP.....should have said that in orginal post

looks like i'm going to need to convert wma to wav to mp3

[Edited on November 10, 2006 at 3:42 PM. Reason : ugh]

11/10/2006 3:42:06 PM

oh.. cant help ya with windows...

11/10/2006 4:29:18 PM

i know there is atleast 1 program out there that can do what i want!

[Edited on November 10, 2006 at 5:07 PM. Reason : sdf]

11/10/2006 4:43:09 PM

cdex will do the conversion and i believe it has a command line tool.

of you cant convert wma's that are DRM'd

11/10/2006 5:11:18 PM

with wmp10 i had a plugin that allowed me to convert to mp3, so there are plugins that do what you want. something like "ImTOO WMA MP3 Converter"

also windows media encoder has a command line encoder that is available for download free from microsoft

11/10/2006 5:26:45 PM

wmencoder does * -> wma/wmv. I dont think it will go the other way. But you're right it does have a very good and very exstensive command line tool.

Wmp10 may even let you just to file save as mp3. I haven't checked.

11/10/2006 5:32:08 PM

i actually didnt load it and look, but google says that it will go wma -> mp3

11/10/2006 5:33:22 PM

That Linux post did bring up a good point, look up the lame encoder. Not sure what it's availability is for independent/command-line, but I know it's used by Winamp, and probably a couple of other big products for their conversion stuff.

11/11/2006 6:00:03 AM

bump, can't seem to find one to work for me that is freeware...

11/28/2006 5:52:51 PM

i dont think fairuse supports the new key yet

11/28/2006 6:15:52 PM

i didn't dl the new key and mine still works

11/29/2006 5:45:46 PM