The Dumb is Getting Worse

I need to see which mp3 files are VBR.  (The Jaguar cannot process VBR MP3s.)  First I tried to do a foreach loop in Windows cmd:

foreach %i in *.mp3
echo %i
MediaInfo %i } grep "Bit rate mode"
endfor

No luck.  This matches what I can find on line.  So I ran bash in cygwin:

for i in (ls *.mp3)
do
echo $i
MediaInfo.exe $1 |grep "Bit rate mode"
done

"i was unexpected at this time."  I was at least expecting the file names, from the echo command.

MediaInfo works fine, file by file or with *.mp3.  At least in CLI mode.  I could not figure out how to display the needed data in GUI mode.

Found an easier way that does not require my apparently lost scripting skill:

MediaInfo.exe *.mp3 |grep "Bit rate mode\|Complete name"

This gives file name and bit rate mode on subsequent lines.

I then used Lame to do the VBR to CBR conversion, and it produces only static.  So now I am restoring from my backup and I will just use MediaInfo to find which are VBR and do the conversion with Audacity.  Very slow but it works.

The bash script for identifying VBR files:

for file in $(ls *.mp3 */*.mp3); do count=`C:/MediaInfo.exe $file | grep "Bit rate mode" | grep "Variable" | wc -l`; if [ $count -gt 0 ]; then echo $file VBR; fi done

There is probably a more elegant solution using find, but I have other things to do.  Problem : $ls produces a series of words separated by blanks because many of the directory names have blanks.  How do I force it not to do that?  IFS=$'\n'