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  • BeanAnimal

    • Feb 2010
    • 3

    Filtering Option or advice needed

    Hello all...

    Very large music collection that contains FLAC and MP3 in varying quality. I would like to shoehorn most of it onto a 160GB ipod.

    I have used the music converter in the past to transcode FLAC to MP3 and the file filtering option worked just fine.

    However, I would like to transcode the ENTIRE collection (both MP3 and FLAC) to a lower LAME VBR preset. The problem being that I want to SKIP files that are ALREADY lower bitrate or quality. There is simply no reason to reencode them again and lose more quality AND get a larger file.

    My albums are all folder based and ALL tagged with bitrate.

    Any ideas (other than sorting the folders (maybe 2,500) by hand and only converting those that need converted? I would love to point the converter at the directory and tell it to convert ALL files that are FLAC -AND- ALL MP3 files with a bitrate of grater than XXXk or xxxVBR .
  • Spoon
    Administrator
    • Apr 2002
    • 44574

    #2
    Re: Filtering Option or advice needed

    Use Batch Convert >> List the tracks for conversion then sort on Bitrate and uncheck the tracks which are not to be converted.
    Spoon
    www.dbpoweramp.com

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    • BeanAnimal

      • Feb 2010
      • 3

      #3
      Re: Filtering Option or advice needed

      Originally posted by Spoon
      Use Batch Convert >> List the tracks for conversion then sort on Bitrate and uncheck the tracks which are not to be converted.
      Is this reasonable with 50,000 files or am I asking for an interface crash?

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      • Spoon
        Administrator
        • Apr 2002
        • 44574

        #4
        Re: Filtering Option or advice needed

        If you have the memory it should be fine.
        Spoon
        www.dbpoweramp.com

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