Windows CMD. Batch Process Extension Problem

justindublin

Hey Guys,

I've having a nervous breakdown trying to figure a way of doing this and I'm now exhaused!

I've a file full of WAV files, and a little .exe that'll convert them to MP3 for me.
The file names are a variable and the batch will run every few hours - turning any WAVS found into MP3s.

The problem I'm having is once the WAV is converted it keep's it .wav

Here's what I've been using to grab the filename and convert it.

@echo off
for %%a in (*.wav) do (
Coreconverter.exe -infile="%%a" -outfile="%%a" -convert_to="mp3 (Lame)" -V 6 
)

Anyway to change the extension afterwards?

cython

justindublin wrote: »

Hey Guys,

I've having a nervous breakdown trying to figure a way of doing this and I'm now exhaused!

I've a file full of WAV files, and a little .exe that'll convert them to MP3 for me.
The file names are a variable and the batch will run every few hours - turning any WAVS found into MP3s.

The problem I'm having is once the WAV is converted it keep's it .wav

Here's what I've been using to grab the filename and convert it.

@echo off
for %%a in (*.wav) do (
Coreconverter.exe -infile="%%a" -outfile="%%a" -convert_to="mp3 (Lame)" -V 6 
)

Anyway to change the extension afterwards?

As per http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3215501/batch-remove-file-extension have you tried something like

@echo off
for %%a in (*.wav) do (
Coreconverter.exe -infile="%%a" -outfile="%%a" -convert_to="mp3 (Lame)" -V 6 
rename %%a %%~na.mp3
)

%%~na should extract the name before the extension, so you can just rename similar to the above.

agriva8

Does -outfile="%%a.mp3" work? (OK, it end up as mysong.wav.mp3)