Lorn
2013-04-12, 05:48 AM
So, here's the situation.
I have a good sized music library, to the tune of about 34GB.
Some of this library is in .MP3 format.
However, some of it, from when I used CDs instead of Amazon, is in .WMA format. My phone cannot play .WMA files, and my netbook (running Ubuntu) is also not so much of a fan.
There's a total of about 5650 .WMA files in about 500 different folders.
I would like these to be .MP3 files.
I've googled and bing'd and Yahoo! searched for a decent batch file converter, to no avail. Any I find will do one folder at once, and with about 500 folders, this really isn't an option.
This is going to be a one time thing, a convert and then done. Happy to leave the computer working overnight doing it if need be. I'm reasonably fluent with .bat files, so a command line program would be absolutely fine.
Having looked for a while to no avail, I figured I might as well turn to the Playground and see if someone could help.
Does anyone know of a decent (and ideally free program) that'd let me convert the .WMA files to .MP3, preserving artist/album info and without losing quality - without having to manually go through every single folder of .WMA files?
Thanks.
I have a good sized music library, to the tune of about 34GB.
Some of this library is in .MP3 format.
However, some of it, from when I used CDs instead of Amazon, is in .WMA format. My phone cannot play .WMA files, and my netbook (running Ubuntu) is also not so much of a fan.
There's a total of about 5650 .WMA files in about 500 different folders.
I would like these to be .MP3 files.
I've googled and bing'd and Yahoo! searched for a decent batch file converter, to no avail. Any I find will do one folder at once, and with about 500 folders, this really isn't an option.
This is going to be a one time thing, a convert and then done. Happy to leave the computer working overnight doing it if need be. I'm reasonably fluent with .bat files, so a command line program would be absolutely fine.
Having looked for a while to no avail, I figured I might as well turn to the Playground and see if someone could help.
Does anyone know of a decent (and ideally free program) that'd let me convert the .WMA files to .MP3, preserving artist/album info and without losing quality - without having to manually go through every single folder of .WMA files?
Thanks.