A bash script to degrade audio from a container.

degrade_audio

#!/usr/bin/env bash

trap 'echo Ignoring' INT

filename="$(basename -- "$1")"
ext="${filename##*.}"
filenameNoExt="${filename%.*}"

dir="$(dirname "$1")"
new="$dir/degraded_$filenameNoExt.$ext"

echo "Degrading audio for $1"
ffmpeg -hide_banner -v error -nostats -nostdin -i "$1" -b:a 16k "$new" || exit 1
mv "$new" "$1"

Designed to be used in https://github.com/tytydraco/meow_dart. Pass in like this:

meow_dart ... -c ./degrade_audio