Bulk converting of Old PCM Wave audio into new mp2 format for Rivendell

This idea courtesy of Daniel Kahn on the Rivendell mailing list Oct 16, 2012.

 Take a copy of your library over to a machine with a Rivendell install
with nothing in the library.  Now run this on your library:

for i in *;do echo $i;j=`echo $i | sed
's/_[0-9].*.*$//;s/^.*_//'`;rdimport --to-cart="$j"
--normalization-level=-13 --autotrim-level=0 music "$i"; done

rdimport converts your library.  Now move the newly created library back
to your original machine.

I can't think why this shouldn't work.  I am sure someone can write a
cleaner scripted then me.


So my better half Monica modified it ever so slightly because it suited me and made a shell script.

#!/bin/bash

for i in *.wav;
do
echo $i;
j=`echo $i | sed 's/_[0-9].*.*$//;s/^.*_//'`;
echo $j;
rdimport --verbose --segue-level=-10 --to-cart=$j --normalization-level=-13 --autotrim-level=0  --delete-cuts Album $i >> importlog.txt


#Note the line above this is all one line but gets word wrapped by google blogs.
done