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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: packyb on October 30, 2003, 10:04:26 am
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I am using the latest beta MC9, and have all of my files stored on my drive as .ape files.
I would like to back all of my .ape files up on an external hard drive, but I want to convert their format to mp3. When I normally send files to my iPod, it puts them in a queue, and I can manage the file conversion in the queue options. However, with this external hard drive "U:/", I don't manage it under the "CD, DVD, Handhelds" section in MC9.
One idea I had was to not use MC9, rather just copy and paste the .ape files from my local disk to the new external disk. Then convert those files to .mp3 in MC9, but this requires me to go into each folder/subfolder to convert - and I have ~ 700 CDs to tackle.
Is there a way to "Send To" or queue files - ultimately convert those .ape files to .mp3 - when sending to the U:/" drive. Ideas?
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I'm sorry, I may be not understanding you, But you can hilight all your music in MC and goto convert, There you can goto options and change the save path.
If I misunderstood you sorry,
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I think that the way I worded my question is confusing - so I apologize. I understand your suggestion, but when I go to convert and change the save path, it deletes my original .ape file, and replaces it in MC9 with the .mp3 file. No?
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You can turn off the options by unchecking the box that say "send original file to recycle bin" in the converter option settnigs
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You can also use LAMEDropXPd (which directly handles ape). Do a google on it or RareWares.
10-27
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oh... you can duplicate your library and then not worry about it.
kiwi
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The true beauty of OggDropXPd/LAMEDropXPd is that you don't have to have your ape's/flac's in MC's library or even on the hard disk(s) themselves. Simply pop your ape/flac disk into your CD drive - open File Manager (or an Explorer window) - go to your CD drive & select your tracks - drag them over & on top of OD or LD. Wahlaa...couldn't be any easier. Works most excellent with my flac'd DVD's (fit about 174 tracks on one disk...which used about 4.3 GB).
OD & LD do direct conversions (no intermediate wav file generation)...so they're pretty quick. OD handles flac out of the box and can be configured for ape. LD handles ape out of the box (but not flac...next version will).
LD errata: oggdrop-like mp3 encoder/decoder compiled with LAME 3.90.3 Modified(--alt-preset standard & extreme with -Z option) includes MACDll.dll for APE file input, also includes MEDIUM and FAST MEDIUM presets - ICL4.5 compile using Dibrom's switches - with Ogg-to-MP3 transcoding
10-27
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Very interesting. I'll have to give those programs a try.
Do they allow you to have the files copied to a new base directory, w/ all of their path information kept? or does it just dump them into one directory?
Do they check for duplicates in the process?
kiwi
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There is (3) path (destination) options:
Same as source
Set path for session
Set path for all sessions
Do you mean subdir creation based on artist/album/etc? Not sure on that one. I also don't know what happens when the filename already exists (I haven't run into that). OD is much more configurable than LD, but John33 (the author) has said that the next ver of LD should mirror OD in form & function.
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