"It doesn't work" is not helpful.  Is there an error message?  What DOES
happen?

Forget that for now, though.  Let's stick with Windows CLI.  Evidently the
link I sent wasn't a good one.  Try this

mkdir foo
for %i in (*.wav) do sox %i -b 8 foo\%i

You can use "help for" in Windows cmd window for more info on how to use
"for".

On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 04:10, Nils Wallgren <affarer@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. I am using windows 10 command prompt. Maybe not
> optimal but It’s kind of hard to know
>
> which one to use if your not an experienced programmer. I have Git Bash,
> is this is what you mean? But I don’t use it
>
> because I can’t get the set audiodriver to work as I could in the command
> prompt. In cmd.exe this is the first thing I do
>
> set audiodriver=waveaudio and I am ready to go. I guess there is a simple
> way to set up this from bash but
>
> I havn’t found any answer. The amount of questions quickly escalates
>
>
>
> When I ran your first script inside bash it didn’t work
>
> Just to make things clear:
>
> I ran this inside of Git Bash from a chosen folder set as my cd
>
> I also have to create a new folder within in this cd with mkdir?
>
>
>
> Then I’ll use for F in *.wav ; do
>
>     sox $F -b 8 nameoffolder/$F
>
> done
>
>
>
> But It doesn’t work
>
>
>
> But It would be nice to run it inside Command Prompt in windows 10.
>
> I have been using sox in with cmd.exe because it worked for but most
> information I find using sox is on Linux
>
> So maybe I should switch..
>
>
>
>
>
> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for
> Windows 10
>
>
>
> *From: *Jeff Learman <jjlearman@gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Wednesday, 27 May 2020 02:23
> *To: *sox-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject: *Re: [SoX-users] BatchProcessing Files on Windows
>
>
>
> For the first question, I'll let the devs answer, but apparently sox
> doesn't batch.
>
>
>
> For the second question, that's not a sox issue; it's a scripting
> question.  What shell are you using?  For bash:
>
>
>
> for F in *.wav ; do
>
>     sox $F -b 8 mydir/$F
>
> done
>
>
>
> I'm guessing you use Windows CLI?  For that I'd use this:
> https://ss64.com/nt/for2.html -- so it looks like you just need %%
> instead of %, and a backslash between the dir name and the wave file name.
>
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 18:31, Nils Wallgren <affarer@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have some problems getting these things to work:
>
>
>
> 1 I want the duration of a couple of soundfiles in a directory
>
>
>
> sox --i -D kick_*.wav
>
>
>
> the name of the sound files are kick_1.wav, kick_2.wav, kick_3.wav etc
>
> but it doesn’t work with the wildcard.
>
>
>
> 2 If I want to batch process a couple of files in a directory and
> process/convert them to something else
>
> And put the processed files in a new folder, how do I do that?
>
>
>
> for %i in *.wav do sox "%i" -b 8  "n_%i" .flac
>
>
>
> (also not sure of the conversion of the files when batching)
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for
> Windows 10
>
>
>
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