Juan Kawada wrote: > ok so I was thinking about trying something like > find ~/Music -iname "*.m4a" -exec lame -V0 -h -b 160 --vbr-new > input.m4a output.mp3 > > but that requires me to specify the input and output name. You could try this: find ~/Music -iname "*.m4a" | while read fn;do lame -V0 -h -b 160 --vbr-new "$fn" "${fn%[mM]4[aA]}mp3";done Nils