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That's a lot of words when I had already posted, a short, answer to my own question!

I remember that well. I quickly upgraded my RAM from 16k to 64k on my TRS80, to get a 5 1/4" floppy drive, but baulked when a 640K Amstrad came out. I got the cheaper 512K. My first hard drive was 20Mb and I struggled to fill it! I do not throw away old hard disk but keep them for backup. But now I have number of 60/80GB drive just sitting around; too small. I need my 750GB drive.

I have several folders on my G: drive (G: being my 750GB USB backup drive) that hold MP3/Flac files. For this exercise it is the only drive I now have that had the space to store another 40GB folder. Searching for MP3 would have bought up every instance not just those in the one folder, G:\MP3\, that I wanted to delete. I would have to be very careful what I selected in the seach dialogue before pressing the delete buton. I can see that the software you are recommending would have done the job. But it is unlikely that I will be doing very much of this kind of searching in future so the expense will not be worthwhile. I will use my work around if necessary. Work around: move all the data on a drive that is bigger than the required space i.e 40GB+ my F: in this case, copy the MP3 folder over to F: do the searches, delete, move the now fileless folder back to G: and move back from G: the data for F:

Thank you Pc Pete My folder structure is G:\Music\Album So I altered the batch file to the following:- @ECHO OFF set in=G:\Music\ set out=G:\MP3\ cd /d "%in%" for /f "usebackq delims=~" %%i in (`dir . /ad /b`) do "C:\Program Files\NCH Swift Sound\Switch\switch.exe" -addfolder "%in%%%i" -format .mp3 -settings .mp3 CBR 128 TRUE JOINT FALSE -outfolder "%out%%%i" -overwrite ALWAYS -convert -hide -exit I copied the whole of the folders in G:\Music\ into G:\MP3\ and it almost worked on the 6 folders I tested. 320bps VBR, 192bps CBR in G:\Music\ all converted to 128bps CBR in G:\MP3\ However when converting from FLAC to MP3 128bps it does not overwrite but adds another file into the folder. This is the way that Switch works; unless there is another options I cannot find. What I next did was to search in G:\MP3\ for *.mp3 and *.flac and deleted all found. This was more complicated than it sounds because I could not see a way to search only in a specific folder in XP i.e G:\MP3\. So I copied the whole lot to an emptied drive; searched/deleted there and then moved the empty folders back. Then ran the batch file again Only 400+ folders to go. Good job I have a spare XP machine to do this job on! I guess that if you want Stereo rather than Joint Stereo just change TRUE JOINT FALSE to TRUE STEREO FALSE??

Sorry Forgot one option; let the converter just copy file if same file format. Now converting my folder full of 320bps VRBs

Now purchased Switch but cannot get it to work. Ripped my CDs with Winamp 5.5 as 320bps VBR MP3. Switch encoder options set to 128bps CBR MP3. Tried to convert one folder. All converted as 320bps i.e no change file sizes exactly the same! Re-ripped one track as 320bps CBR. Again Switch encoder options set to 128bps CBR. still converted as 320bps i.e file size still the same. Can anyone please advise?

Will try this once I have purchased my full copy.

I have 400+ folders containing 4000+ 320bps MP3 files. The folder structure is:- C:\User\MP3\Folder 1, C:\User\MP3\Folder 2..., C:\User\MP3\Folder 400+ I want software that will leave this structure alone but go into each of the 4000+ MP3 files and convert each files to 128bps. I realise this will take a long time to convert 4000+ files but its is on a spare machine. All the software I have tried either puts all the files into one destination folder i.e. C:\User\MP3 128\ file 1....file 4000+ or creates sub folders by artist and then album. I also want it the retain my tags. Can anyone tell me if Switch is able to do this?