I don’t think the .cmd lets me use %%: “%%a was unexpected at this time” Also: “C:\sox.exe"' is not recognized as an internal or external command” What I want to do is convert files within a cd using wildcards *.wav converting these to another fileformat i.e flac while also giving it its name and create the processed In a new folder within the cd. This is the closest I get but the naming is kind of strange Mkdir converted For %i in (*.wav) do sox "%i" -b 8 "converted/name_%i.flac babar.wav (original fil) n_babar.wav.flac (new file) would be nice to just have the n_babar.flac Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: tsepp2000@web.de Sent: Wednesday, 27 May 2020 10:36 To: sox-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [SoX-users] BatchProcessing Files on Windows Hi, I don't understand exactly, what you want to do. And it's not very different using sox with linux. May be this could help? This could be a *.cmd: for %%a in (*.wav) do "C:\sox.exe" [...] "%%a" pause After sox you could give in your [paramters]. Regards Thomas -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Re: [SoX-users] BatchProcessing Files on Windows Datum: Wed, 27 May 2020 08:09:29 +0000 Von: Nils Wallgren Antwort an: sox-users@lists.sourceforge.net An: sox-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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 for Windows 10 From: Jeff Learman 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 > 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 for Windows 10 _______________________________________________ Sox-users mailing list Sox-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-users