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A Newb's Dilemma: Bulk Conversion of WAV to MP3

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  • Cohen's Ghost

    • Jun 2024
    • 2

    A Newb's Dilemma: Bulk Conversion of WAV to MP3

    I'm a newb and was gifted an external hard drive with 400+ CDs recorded as WAV files with Windows Media Player 7.
    I want them all on my phone as mp3s (while maintaining the originals) and obviously want to batch convert as simply as possible.
    The path is G: Data > Music > Phil > a folder for every artist > folders for every disc by that artist > individual song files. Questions:
    Can you simply feed dbpoweramp the “Music” folder? Or the “Phil” folder?
    Does dbpoweramp extract the individual discs/song files making this a single-step process? If not, do I have to feed it every disc folder to convert, then create new folders for every disc as an export location?
    IOW, how the heck does it work?
  • Spoon
    Administrator
    • Apr 2002
    • 44574

    #2
    Use Batch Converter, you would want to preserve the folder location if writing to a new location such as:

    [origpath]\[origfilename]

    as the naming then set a new save location.
    Spoon
    www.dbpoweramp.com

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    • Cohen's Ghost

      • Jun 2024
      • 2

      #3
      I can get as far as selecting “Music” to convert to mp3s, then I’m stuck on the Output Path. (See image.)
      I simply don’t know what those choices mean. Ideally, I’d to duplicate the path stated in my OP, changing “Phil” to Bill.
      Since I can’t get past this, I have no idea what comes next and there is no tutorial.
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      • Spoon
        Administrator
        • Apr 2002
        • 44574

        #4
        Click Preserve Source Path and choose a location you want to save to.
        Spoon
        www.dbpoweramp.com

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        • simbun
          dBpoweramp Enthusiast

          • Apr 2021
          • 96

          #5
          Originally posted by Cohen's Ghost
          I can get as far as selecting “Music” to convert to mp3s, then I’m stuck on the Output Path. (See image.)
          Choose 'Edit Dynamic Naming' and on the subsequent screen set:
          Code:
          Base Location: G:\Data\Music\Bill\
          Dynamic Naming: [TRIMFIRSTFOLDER][TRIMFIRSTFOLDER][TRIMFIRSTFOLDER][origpath][][][]\[origfilename]
          Each "[TRIMFIRSTFOLDER][]" removes a leading folder from the original path [origpath], so nesting 3 removes Data/Music/Phil.

          Hope that makes sense.



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