Hi
I've batch converted all my FLAC lossless compressed files to totally uncompressed but the converted files are all individual tracks and not in albums as before. How can I convert so that the albums are maintained ?
Thanks in advance
Hi
I've batch converted all my FLAC lossless compressed files to totally uncompressed but the converted files are all individual tracks and not in albums as before. How can I convert so that the albums are maintained ?
Thanks in advance
In which software are you seeing the individual tracks?
On my USB stick. I converted all the Flac Compressed files situated on my hard drive to Lossless on my USB stick.
Most likely you did not set the dynamic naming string properly in the batch converter.
How do I go about doing this correctly ?
You would set naming to something like:
[artist]\[album]\[title]
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[artist]\[album]\[track] - [title]
even better. The above works for non-compilations and non multi disk. I&*8217;ll post something later for those.
You can use a string like this to automatically deal with compilations and multidisk sets. This puts the compilation CDs in a top folder called compilations. And it creates subfolders (Disk 1, Disk 2, etc.) for multidisk. There are other options too. This is just an example (and the one I use).
[MAXLENGTH]240,[IFCOMP]Compilations\[album] [IFMULTI] \Disc [disc][]\[track] - [title] - [artist][][IF!COMP][IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[artist][]\[album][IFMULTI] \Disc [disc][]\[track] - [title][][]
Last edited by garym; 12-29-2018 at 02:25 PM.
I tried the above setting and it still converts each track as individual tracks. The original tracks that I'm converting are in a folder with the Artist Name then in folders with Album Name and on clicking the album folder the individual tracks are shown. I want to keep the same when converting. What am I missing ?
Last edited by garym; 01-02-2019 at 12:45 PM.
Also, you could use this as your dynamic naming.
[origpath]\[origfilename]
Just have some upper level directory different from your FLAC directory.
e.g.,
music\mp3\[origpath]\[origfilename]
to make sure it doesn't put things under the entire old path, you need something like this.
Assume flac files are in:
music\flac\artist\album\track-title
you'll want to convert to the following dynamic naming string:
[TRIMFIRSTFOLDER][TRIMFIRSTFOLDER][origpath][][]\[origfilename]
with base folder as music\mp3, in order to create the following results:
music\mp3\artist\album\track-title
(the above string removes the first two folders in your original path). if you need to remove 3 folders, just use trimfirstfolder 3 times (don't forget to put the matching "[]" for each use of TRIMFIRSTFOLDER).
Last edited by garym; 01-02-2019 at 12:55 PM.
This is confusing I'm lost with your instructions. Is there really any point converting the compressed FLAC files to totally uncompressed ? Will they sound any better ? If not then I can save myself the hassle of trying to convert them and keep the naming and folders the same.
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