[FFmpeg-user] Converting mkv to mp3 failures

[Moritz Barsnick]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 15:11:56 -0600, JD wrote:

> Your filename does not contain parentheses, brackets and single quotes 
> and unprintable characters that
> MANY files I download contain in their names.
> And THAT is the crux of the problem.

That's no crux.

$ for file in *.mkv; do ffmpeg -i "$file" -map 0:a -c:a libmp3lame /targetdir/"${f%.mkv}".mp3; done

Fixed that for you. Never forget to quote your variables.

Moritz