Large scale audio file conversion. . . what's your thoughts?

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I want to convert mp3 audio files to wav for a (CD player in my jeep). I assume its just a CD player only. No mp3 capability and or DVD playback ability. So I want to use something (like ciano) which is not at all good for bullk file conversion from one file directory to another. . . I’ve got a DVD/ CD burner and would like to burn a bunch of 700mb CD music disks for the jeep.

Any thoughts or idea’s on how to best do this? I’d like to just set it and forget it until its all done. Then start disk burning. . .

Rich;)

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When the ash tray is full . . . it’s time to buy a new vehicle. . . right? The same pertains to vehicles with CD players. . . . when the audio player is out of date ditch the unit, replace the dashboard or buy a new vehicle. . . .

I used Sound Converter to convert the files. Used k3b to burn an audio disk with the wav files. . . . after finalized disk burning. . . I realized what a real headache.

No responses to my stupid post are necessary. . . .

Rich;)

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Something like the following in the given directory;

for f in *.mp3; do ffmpeg -i "$f" "$(basename $f).wav"; done

But I also dont think you would need to?
Like .. cant you just burn an audio disk using the mp3 files (just dont create a “data disc”)?

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It’s worth giving that a go. The K3b docs say:

K3b can convert quite some audio formats automatically for you. Just click on the files you want in the upper half (navigation area) and they will be added to your CD.

Otherwise, similar to @cscs suggestion, my approach is usually a batch ffmpeg job, but I tend to use parallel to speed things up, particularly if there’s a lot to do and you have a CPU cores to exploit. Something like this:

ls *.mp3 | parallel ffmpeg -y -i {} {.}.wav -hide_banner
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Thanks for the responses. . . .

Rich :wink:

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