[Electronics-talk] massive file conversion

[Dhunthausen]

Jim,
 Thanks so much for the info. Will these steps also change the format on my 
external hard drive as well as on the hard drive of my computer?thanks

Drew

Drew Hunthausen
714-296-7111
Mailto: dhunthausen at gmail.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Barbour" <jbar at barcore.com>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] massive file conversion


> Howdy,
>
> I'm pretty sure the only way to do this is to use iTunes.  The itunes
> file format is in a proprietary format.
>
> The basic steps are...
>
> 1) connect the external disk to a windows or mac machine with iTunes on 
> it.
>
> 2) Bring up iTunes.  Check the import settings to make sure that the
>   type of newly imported file is mp3, the bit rate is set to 192,
>   and that iTunes is not set to copy music to the iTunes folder.
>
> 3) Import the music from your external hard disks into iTunes.
>
> 4) Select the music you just imported.  I'd sort the music by "add time",
>   so you can easily pick off the new files you've just added.
>
> 5) You can type shift+f10 (on windows, not sure about a mac) and
>   select the menu item that says something like "convert to mp3"
>
>   note that this will create new files.  If you don't have enough
>   disk space for this, you'll have to select small chunks, convert
>   them to mp3s, delete the old aac files, rinse and repeat.
>
> These are pretty bare instructions and I'm happy to answer more
> questions.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jim
>
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:45:12PM -0800, Dhunthausen wrote:
>> Dear list,
>> I hope this isn't off topic, but I have a external hard drive with about 
>> 77 gbs of music that the majority of songs are in the itunes format. I 
>> have a Victor Stream and want to convert all the songs into MP3 format. 
>> Is there a way I could  convert all the files; keeping the same folder 
>> structure? Thanks
>>
>> Drew
>>
>> Drew Hunthausen
>> 714-296-7111
>> Mailto: dhunthausen at gmail.com
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