Output files put in wrong directory

[kdq]

I an ripping a bunch of CDs from a set, putting each disc into a directory named (originally enough) Disc nn (where nn is the disk number). These directories are all under the directory that names the collection. I am ripping to wave, because I need to experiment with the DSP effects during conversion to MP3.

For the output location, I specify the folder as .\mp3 - meaning the directory named mp3 under the current directory (where the files are which are being converted). This worked correctly for the first Disk nn directory. But when I move to another directory, and the output directory was still specified at .\mp3, the files went into the same directory as the first set of mp3s. Exiting the program or retyping the directory name makes no difference - the files always go into that one folder.

Bizarre.

[Spoon]

Re: Output files put in wrong directory

You cannot use relative paths with .\ instead use dynamic naming and

[origpath]\mp3\[origfilename]

[kdq]

Re: Output files put in wrong directory

Error converting to mp3 (Lame), 'C:\NewRips\Echoes from the Spirit World\01 Audience Welcome.wav' to '[origpath]\mp3\01 Audience Welcome.mp3'
Error unable to open File '[origpath]\mp3\01 Audience Welcome.mp3' for writing. [clEncoder::BeginConversion]

[LtData]

Re: Output files put in wrong directory

Did you put the [origpath] line in the dynamic naming box or the destination box?

[kdq]

Re: Output files put in wrong directory

Ah. When I put that in the dynamic naming box, the file ends up in
C:\Documents and Settings\Kevin\My Documents\My Music\NewRips\Echoes from the Spirit World\mp3

instead of C:\NewRips\Echoes from the Spirit World\mp3

because Convert To insists on filling in the empty destination box. If I put a dot in the destination box, I get
Error converting to mp3 (Lame), 'C:\NewRips\Echoes from the Spirit World\01 Audience Welcome.wav' to '.\NewRips\Echoes from the Spirit World\mp3\01 Audience Welcome.mp3'
Error unable to open File '.\NewRips\Echoes from the Spirit World\mp3\01 Audience Welcome.mp3' for writing. [clEncoder::BeginConversion]

I can get around it for this conversion by entering "C:" in the destination box, which it converts to "HP_PAVILION (C" but this just begs the question.

The mechanism is broken. There should be a trivial and obvious way to designate that converted files go into a fixed-name subdirectory of the source directory, no matter the directory or drive. The destination box should be able to handle relative paths - in fact, there has to be code in there that prevents it from doing so. The dynamic naming box forces a starting '\' on what's entered, and that's also bogus.

[Spoon]

Re: Output files put in wrong directory

Your assumption of . and \ is all relative to individual files, where conversions are based on batches of files.

Setting the destination as C:\ is the correct way of using [origpath] (it is all documented in the help file).

[kdq]

Re: Output files put in wrong directory

Doesn't help when I'm moving from drive to drive. There has to be specific code to prevent .\mp3 from working, since adding a '\' and a filename when you open a file just works. Relative addressing should just work.

[Wayne]

Re: Output files put in wrong directory

since adding a '\' and a filename when you open a file just works.

Where does this work? When using dMC converter?

Can you paste the contents of the dynamic naming box here?