How do I use afconvert to convert all the files in a directory from wav to caf?

Question

I have a directory with about 50 wav files that I need to convert to caf, because AudioServicesCreateSystemSoundID() returns an error for some of them (but not all).

Here's an example of the command I've used successfully for a single file:

afconvert -f caff -d LEI16@44100 -c 1 whistle.wav whistle.caf

How do I do this quickly - not one-by-one for each file?

Answer 1

Similar approach for bash: for i in *.wav; do afconvert -f caff -d LEI16@44100 -c 1 $i ${i%.wav}.caf; done

Answer 2

On Windows, use the %~ni syntax.

for %i in (*.wav) do afconvert -f caff -d LEI16@44100 -c 1 %i %~ni.caf

Answer 3

for file in *.wav; do afconvert -f caff -d LEI16@44100 -c 1 "$file"; done

Hit the Return key directly after done.

Simple :)

Answer 4

For the people who are using OSX and are a bit afraid of Terminal scripts I created a little application with Automator, this application converts the files you select.

Download here