[Bash] Convert wav to mp3 via ffmpeg

Question

Convert 9dt/9dtXXX.wav to output/9dtXXX.mp3, where XXX are numbers from 000 to 094.

Answer

Install ffmpeg:

# install ffmpeg on Ubuntu Linux 15.10
$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

The bash script to convert wav to mp3 via ffmpeg:

#!/bin/bash

OUTPUTDIR="output"

mkdir -p $OUTPUTDIR
for i in {000..094}
do
  ffmpeg -i 9dt/9dt$i.wav $OUTPUTDIR/9dt$i.mp3
done

Save the above bash script as wav2mp3.sh

Run the script by:

$ bash wav2mp3.sh

Tested on Ubuntu Linux 15.10

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