mp3

I have a very basic mp3 player with only 128 MB memory. I mostly listen to podcasts which are automatically downloaded by Amarok into the folder ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/podcasts/data. In order to fit many of them to the limited memory and to have them available from anywhere, I have been writing a script that automatically downsamples them as they arrive and puts them online to my web server. The script is executed hourly by the crontab. The relevant files look like this:

Using Audacity I converted one of the ripped WAVs into an MP3. However there was no possibility to batch convert WAV files. Thus I started to use lame from the command line. I created a shell script (encode.sh):
while [ $ -ge 1 ]; do
infn=$1
outfn="${infn%%.wav}.mp3"
echo $outfn
lame -v $infn $outfn
shift 1
done It does the batch converting: