Looking for a way to batch convert m4a's to mp3

[general.chaos]

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!

[Lingwo]

I believe DBpowerAmp will do it.

[general.chaos]

thanks, ill give it a shot!

[Imnotrichey]

Another way is to just burn the m4a's on a cd. Then rip them back onto your computer as mp3

[general.chaos]

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.

[llshzh]

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.

[rounds]

Ouch, transcode.

[Imnotrichey]

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 :)

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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?

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

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.

[-Dave-]

itunes will do it

just select MP? as ur encoder, highlight all the songs and right click - convert to mp3

easy

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

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.

[-Dave-]

nope itll make a copy. plus u can use upto 320k mp3s :)

[SacrificialSoldier]

MediaCoder

Just sort by type, select all m4a, drop into mediacoder, and delete all m4a's when done.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

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