Support for the audio type '.mid' might be obtained at "codec central"......

[seti007]

Hi All, I hop e you guys can help me. I am trying to convert my entire mp3 collection into WMA and save it on a different drive. However when I hit convert it comes up with an error saying
" Support for the audio type '.mid' might be obtained at "codec central", visit codec central now? (connect to internet..........."

I did a search and found no .mid files in the entire folder structure Im trying to convert??
I know that u cant convert .mid file into WMA and I have not desire to do so. Im just stuck as i can't get past this point. Is there any way to bypass this error?

[LtData]

Re: Support for the audio type '.mid' might be obtained at "codec central"......

Make sure you didn't select some playlist files accidentally.

[seti007]

Re: Support for the audio type '.mid' might be obtained at "codec central"......

I did a search for .pls files and found one. I deleted taht one but still have the problem. The trouble is that I cant possibly go through all folders as I have hundreds of folders (one for each artist) and a total of about 90Gig worth of music. Any more ideas?? Does a playlist file have any other extension other than .pls??
Some folders might have a file with an extension other than .mp3. Would that be a problem?? What happens when dBpower encounters a non music file?

[Spoon]

Re: Support for the audio type '.mid' might be obtained at "codec central"......

It is down to association of your audio files, use the file selector and you can uncheck the .mid file type.

[LtData]

Re: Support for the audio type '.mid' might be obtained at "codec central"......

Basically, use file selector and uncheck ANY file types you do NOT want dMC to convert. Also uncheck all playlist formats.

If dMC encounters a file, it tries to convert it. IIRC, playlist files are enumerated through and a conversion is attempted on every entry.

[seti007]

Re: Support for the audio type '.mid' might be obtained at "codec central"......

spoon and Ltdata, thanks a lot. I think Im getting closer, However, I dont know how to unassociate the non-mp3 files. A quick how to would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again

[LtData]

Re: Support for the audio type '.mid' might be obtained at "codec central"......

In File Selector, click the "Converting Button" and uncheck any formats you don't want to convert.

[seti007]

Re: Support for the audio type '.mid' might be obtained at "codec central"......

Thanks That works

[ChristinaS]

Re: Support for the audio type '.mid' might be obtained at "codec central"......

In case you haven't enable viewing file extensions on your pc, do so now.

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=5361

What happens when you dont' see extensions for some files, you see an icon of the player associated with the file extension.

wav, mp3, wma, mid - thay all may be associated with Windows Media Player. So would many playlists and meta files (wpl, wax, asx, pls, etc).
In such a acse you'd nto even know the file names are for this or that type of file because all youd' be seeing is the same icon for all of them.

Probably you actually had some .mid files in the lot you wanted converted, among your mp3 files.

[seti007]

Re: Support for the audio type '.mid' might be obtained at "codec central"......

Thanks christina, I have the file extensions enabled so I can see what the files are. It seems to be working great now. It looks like it will take about 75 hrs to complete my entire collection. :shocked:

[ChristinaS]

Re: Support for the audio type '.mid' might be obtained at "codec central"......

Yikes! Make sure you use below normal priority of conversion and don't try to do all of it in one shot. Do not set it to delete original files!

[IncredibleHawk]

Very Helpfull information thanks!

[Spoon]

Re: Support for the audio type '.mid' might be obtained at "codec central"......

Actually will be releasing a midi decoder (to anything) for R12 very shortly...

[ChristinaS]

Re: Support for the audio type '.mid' might be obtained at "codec central"......

Actually will be releasing a midi decoder (to anything) for R12 very shortly...

WOW! I'm soooooooo looking forward to that

Been doing it by dMC Auxiliary Input all this time, it will be really nice to have a more automated method.