general.chaos Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 I have a huge music collection comprised mostly of mp3's, but there are probably 5 or 6 hundred m4a's scattered in there (all unprotected of course). Is there a program I can point at my music folder and have it convert the m4a's to mp3 and remove the original m4a's? My music folder is set up like this Music > Artist > Album (for the most part) > files I'd like to point it at the music folder and have it scan the subdirs itself. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lingwo Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 I believe DBpowerAmp will do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
general.chaos Posted October 19, 2007 Author Share Posted October 19, 2007 thanks, ill give it a shot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imnotrichey Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 Another way is to just burn the m4a's on a cd. Then rip them back onto your computer as mp3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
general.chaos Posted October 19, 2007 Author Share Posted October 19, 2007 Another way is to just burn the m4a's on a cd. Then rip them back onto your computer as mp3 Perhaps you missed the part where I said I had several hundred m4a's? It would be faster to manually convert them one by one than to burn and rip them all. Thanks tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llshzh Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 I think NoteCable can do this. You ca simply add all your files to the program and it can convert m4a to mp3 in batch mode. very easy to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rounds Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Ouch, transcode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imnotrichey Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 Perhaps you missed the part where I said I had several hundred m4a's? It would be faster to manually convert them one by one than to burn and rip them all. Thanks tho. you are right, i did miss that. Probably cause my whole mp3 collection is only 320 songs or so :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[f] Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 you are right, i did miss that. Probably cause my whole mp3 collection is only 320 songs or so :) I've never had my mp3 collection cause me to not read something, how exactly does that work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted November 2, 2007 Veteran Share Posted November 2, 2007 Does anybody know a free app? My mum has just over 300 songs in AAC and MP3 format, as well as about 10-20 protected AAC songs (which I assume I have no hope in hell of converting) and she just brought a cheap-ish stereo that only takes MP3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Dave- Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 itunes will do it just select MP? as ur encoder, highlight all the songs and right click - convert to mp3 easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted November 2, 2007 Veteran Share Posted November 2, 2007 I thought of that, but doesn't that replace the song when you do it? I'd rather not screw up the quality of all the songs in her library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Dave- Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 nope itll make a copy. plus u can use upto 320k mp3s :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SacrificialSoldier Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 MediaCoder Just sort by type, select all m4a, drop into mediacoder, and delete all m4a's when done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted November 3, 2007 Veteran Share Posted November 3, 2007 (edited) Thanks for the mediacoder suggestion, works well. But it can't read any of the tags in the AAC file, so every song is "Untitled Song by Untitled Artist" Edit: Nevermind, used Tag&Rename to rename all the files, thanks for the help guys. Edited November 3, 2007 by The_Decryptor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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