I have many mp3s ripped at a high 320k bitrate stored in different subfolders divided by artist. i need to convert the 320k mp3s to a 192k bitrate

Is there a script/terminal command to convert the mp3s to lower bitrates and keep the file structure/tags intact?

what should i try? where should i look?

lame is probably the tool you are looking for in respect of converting. there are rpms available, too. Can be downloaded from many sites. But if you want to keep the directory structure you have to write a shell/perl/python script, i guess.
cheers, j

This should help you out. It did me.

I agree. Look up Lame's syntax to create an mp3 with a specific bitrate, and then do something like this in bash:

find . -name "*.mp3" -type f | while read i; do lame <options> "$i"
"$i-192bps.mp3;done;


Where the find command will start in your current directory, search it and its subdirectorys for files ending in .mp3 , and it will run the lame command on each one it finds. The new mp3 file would be put in the same folder as the original. With some extra work, you can change it to another folder and also change the way it will be named. So a file in the current folder called playme.mp3 would be playme.mp3-192bps.mp3 after these commands process it.

Thanks for all the replies

i finally used this, pasted into the termal window:


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go team!