[Electronics-talk] massive file conversion

[Dhunthausen]

Jim,
Where do you check or change the import settings? 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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