#!/bin/bash for i in *.m4a do echo "$i" dbvalue=$(ffmpeg -i "$i" -af "volumedetect" -vn -sn -dn -f null /dev/null 2>&1 | grep "max_volume" | tr -s ' ' '\n' | tail -n 2 | head -n 1) echo $dbvalue if [ "$dbvalue" == "0.0" ] then echo "nothing to change..." else dbvaluechanged=$(echo $dbvalue | cut -c 2-) echo 'change '$dbvaluechanged'db' ffmpeg -i "$i" -af 'volume='$dbvaluechanged'dB' "new_$i" 2> /dev/null rm "$i" mv "new_$i" "$i" echo "replaced old file..." fi done