bash scripting question

From: Francisco (fran575_at_mailandnews.com)
Date: 08/10/03 

Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 03:13:45 -0300

Say I want to decode with lame a lot of files in one dir, I do the
following:
for n in `ls *.mp3`;do lame --decode $n; done

This works great if files dont have spaces, but if there are spaces the
scripts fails because $n cantains only the fragment of the files names
until a space occur.
So, is there a solution to this?, how should I do it?
Thank you.

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