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I cannot find a better place to post this, and I'm in a hurry to fire up the script at last.
I'm not an expert on managing media files in Windows, but needed a freeware solution as I was using it, probably, only one time. (will keep it anyway!!!) My case was simply that the converter was needed because of its unique feature for a _very_ large amount of mp3 in a windows system to be converted to oggs, as copyrighted formats are in their way out of this system. And ogg are the better space savvy format.
It was set up in one hour, downloading, installing the converter, the codecs, testing, and then editing a VBS with the sugested VBS in the software page with the resulting file of command 'dir /b /s > list0.txt' in the folder where all those big fat mp3 were in. Same should work for wma.
I edited list0.txt with GNUwin32 "sed", with this command
'sed -n -e /.mp3/p list0.txt > list1.txt'
This should output only the lines with '.mp3' at the end of the filename in a new file called list1.txt.
just in case, in linux would have been:
sed -n -e '/.mp3/p' < list0.txt > list1.txt
To build the vbs I needed to replace
' c:\ ' with ' Call dMC.AddFromFile("C:\ ' with the notepad or sed
and ' .mp3 ' with ' .mp3") ' for each line in the last file list1.txt and then inserting by hand in the next lines.
--- do-oggs.vbs first line next ---
Set dMC = CreateObject("dMCScripting.Converter")
dMC.VolumeNormalize = False
dMC.PreserveTags = True
dMC.DeleteSourceFiles = True
' Set Output Folder (to C:\Conversion123 )
' last line uncommented to avoid changing folder tree structure
dMC.ConvertToFolder = True
' dMC.ToFolder = ""
' last line uncommented to avoid changing any folder at all
--- here the fat file1.txt ---
Call dMC.GoConversion("Ogg Vorbis",False, False, False, False)
' that was the last line of do-oggs.vbs
I'm about to let it run... I don't know for how long. Maybe days! file1.txt is some Mb big. mp3's are 44khz
Any sugestion before I do it?
Thanks for the great software
I'm not an expert on managing media files in Windows, but needed a freeware solution as I was using it, probably, only one time. (will keep it anyway!!!) My case was simply that the converter was needed because of its unique feature for a _very_ large amount of mp3 in a windows system to be converted to oggs, as copyrighted formats are in their way out of this system. And ogg are the better space savvy format.
It was set up in one hour, downloading, installing the converter, the codecs, testing, and then editing a VBS with the sugested VBS in the software page with the resulting file of command 'dir /b /s > list0.txt' in the folder where all those big fat mp3 were in. Same should work for wma.
I edited list0.txt with GNUwin32 "sed", with this command
'sed -n -e /.mp3/p list0.txt > list1.txt'
This should output only the lines with '.mp3' at the end of the filename in a new file called list1.txt.
just in case, in linux would have been:
sed -n -e '/.mp3/p' < list0.txt > list1.txt
To build the vbs I needed to replace
' c:\ ' with ' Call dMC.AddFromFile("C:\ ' with the notepad or sed
and ' .mp3 ' with ' .mp3") ' for each line in the last file list1.txt and then inserting by hand in the next lines.
--- do-oggs.vbs first line next ---
Set dMC = CreateObject("dMCScripting.Converter")
dMC.VolumeNormalize = False
dMC.PreserveTags = True
dMC.DeleteSourceFiles = True
' Set Output Folder (to C:\Conversion123 )
' last line uncommented to avoid changing folder tree structure
dMC.ConvertToFolder = True
' dMC.ToFolder = ""
' last line uncommented to avoid changing any folder at all
--- here the fat file1.txt ---
Call dMC.GoConversion("Ogg Vorbis",False, False, False, False)
' that was the last line of do-oggs.vbs
I'm about to let it run... I don't know for how long. Maybe days! file1.txt is some Mb big. mp3's are 44khz
Any sugestion before I do it?
Thanks for the great software