Recursively resample a bunch of audio files in a directory, using sox

recursive-resample.sh

#!/bin/bash

# A simple script to recursively resample a bunch of files
# in a directory. Only certain file extensions (mp3, aac,
# flac, wav) are considered.
#
# It takes 2 command line options: `indir` and `outdir`.
# The destination (`outdir`) is relative to the current
# directory of where you were when the script was run.
#
# Example: resample.sh audio/ resampled/
#
# The direcotry structure inside `indir` will be replicated
# in `outdir`.


# Sourece directory with files to convert
InDir=$1

# Set the directory you want for the converted files
OutDir=$2

# make sure the output directory exists (create it if not)
mkdir -p "$OutDir"

# Target sample rate
TARGET_SR=16000

# Target num channels
TARGET_NC=1

# Convert each file with SoX, and write the converted file
# to the corresponding output dir, preserving the internal
# structure of the input dir
find -E $InDir -type f -iregex '.*\.(mp3|wav|flac|aac)$' -print0 | while read -d $'\0' input
do
  echo "processing" $input

  # the output path, without the InDir prefix
  output=${input#$InDir}
  # replace the original extension with .wav
  output=$OutDir${output%.*}.wav

  # get the output directory, and create it if necessary
  outdir=$(dirname "${output}")
  mkdir -p "$outdir"

  # finally, convert the file
  sox "$input" -r $TARGET_SR "$output" remix 1,2

  echo "saved as $output"
done

How would you avoid problems of clipping and dithering? I undersand you need to add a -G option. Is that correct?

sox WARN rate: rate clipped 1 samples; decrease volume?
sox WARN dither: dither clipped 1 samples; decrease volume?

Thanks for the script @jorgehatccrma . It worked great first time. Now I can use my sample in my Octatrack and the BPM is preserved.