[Electronics-talk] massive file conversion

[Jim Barbour]

On the PC version, it's the last item under the edit menu.

Jim

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:59:03PM -0800, Dhunthausen wrote:
> 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>
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>
>> 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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