[LeChuck]

Are there any conversion programs that will allow you to maintain directory structure for the output files? All of my music is organized in directories in the format of Artist/Album but not all of it is tagged, which makes doing mass conversions difficult.

 

[slwiser]

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Originally Posted by LeChuck /img/forum/go_quote.gif Are there any conversion programs that will allow you to maintain directory structure for the output files? All of my music is organized in directories in the format of Artist/Album but not all of it is tagged, which makes doing mass conversions difficult.

dBPowerAmp has dynamic directory generation.

Say I have 80 gigs of FLAC files in C drive under FLAC,under that genre, under that artist, under that album

dBpowerAmp will dynamically generate that structure on G into a MP3 directory just like the on under FLAC on C drive in one felt scoop using its batch file converter.

I have done this several times with different conversions, once to MP3s, then to AAC, again to Apple Lossless.

Is that what you are interested in?

 

[Febs]

Why not just use a tagging program like Tag and Rename or mp3tag to tag your files from the directory structure and filename? Almost any decent tagging program can do this easily.

 

[Andrew_WOT]

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Originally Posted by LeChuck /img/forum/go_quote.gif Are there any conversion programs that will allow you to maintain directory structure for the output files? All of my music is organized in directories in the format of Artist/Album but not all of it is tagged, which makes doing mass conversions difficult.

I struggled with the same problem recently. And look what I've found
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/...hp/t49608.html
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Originally Posted by foo_fighter I've been using: $replace($replace(%path%,G:\Music,),%filename_ext% ,)%filename% My library is under G:\Music Then I just select the new parent directory(F:\mp3) after "Convert to" and start converting.

Works like a charm.

But "Preserve directory structure option" in foobar2000 would be so much nicer though.

 

[LeChuck]

I just found the HA post you referenced after starting my thread, and it does work like a charm.

You're right though, a one click feature (plugin) sure would be nice.

 

[HFat]

Foobar does it with "convert to same directory". What's the big deal?

 

[Andrew_WOT]

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Originally Posted by HFat /img/forum/go_quote.gif Foobar does it with "convert to same directory". What's the big deal?

But you can't choose destination folder, and having original and converted files in the same folder is not what I'd like.

 

[HFat]

Obviously.

Any number of file management utilities can split the directory trees for you once the conversion is done.
I use rsync because my transcode/archive script uses rsync for unrelated operations after that one.

 

[Andrew_WOT]

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Originally Posted by HFat /img/forum/go_quote.gif Obviously. Any number of file management utilities can split the directory trees for you once the conversion is done. I use rsync because my transcode/archive script uses rsync for unrelated operations after that one.

On linux or cygwin under windows and some shell script programming skills it is definitely "not a big deal". Sorry, silly me.

 

[krmathis]

Max allow you to do this.
Using the "Output files: Same as source file" setting.