Batch Encoding with LAME MP3. How?

[DivXExpert]

Preferable not a gui. But a gui will work.

[DivXExpert]

I have a folder full of waves.
I want to be like
"lame --alt-preset extreme C:\dir C:\dir\dir"
and it will encode all the waves in C:\dir, to MP3 put them in C:\dir\dir

How do I do something like that?

[DivXExpert]

bump.

[sterno]

If you must do it in a native Windows-ish way, just write a .bat script with a for loop. It should only take a few minutes. Pull up a DOS box and use the "help" command to get the syntax you need.

[mats.hogberg]

... or create a VBScript.

/Mats

[DivXExpert]

Thanks guys.

[DivXExpert]

Not great with dos. How do I exactly create .bat files. I know that I can create on with notepad, by just writing a script and renaming to .bat. but what all goes into the script? Is it complex?

[DivXExpert]

The "help" command didn't work.
Grabbed the old DOS book, it just said to type "help" then press enter. It gave an example. It looked just like that, without the "Windows 98" stuff.

[sterno]

Yes, a .bat file is just a plain text file. You can edit it in notepad (or any other text editor). I can't refer to the Windows help because the only machine that I allow to run Windows is awaiting a hard drive transplant, but I think the syntax you want is something like "for %%f in (*.mp3) do lame --options %%f %%f.wav". If you want to process directories as command line arguments you'd use %1 for the first argument and %2 for the second. The only down side to this is that "foo.mp3" will become "foo.mp3.wav", which is a little ugly but livable.

A quick search on google gave me this site: http://www.vfrazee.com/ms-dos/6.22/help/for.htm