Recursive Conversion - Directory Structure?

[Guest FernRo]

I've got 400 cds ripped to .wav files using itunes, which has created a clean and well-organized directory structure for the files based on Artist, Album, etc.

 

I'd like to convert them to mp3 in a different location. I've been very impressed with Switch's ability to handle the large number of files gracefully... But I need to maintain the directory structure of the originals in the new mp3 storage location.

 

I can't find anywhere in the interface to say "create the directories for the converted files just like in the original location". Is there such an option? Or a way to do it with the commandline?

 

Otherwise Switch is *perfect* for what I need to do. By far the best tool I've looked at this week (upwards of 20 so far).

 

Thanks for any help you can offer.

[nchtj]

Have you got switch 1.05 ? In the output folder field, there is an entry in the pull-down list called "[same as source file]", which converts your files to the same folder the original file is in.

[Guest FernRo]

Have you got switch 1.05 ? In the output folder field, there is an entry in the pull-down list called "[same as source file]", which converts your files to the same folder the original file is in.

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Sadly, there's no room on the original disk, and I need to convert to a different disk.

[nchtj]

oh, I understand what you want now. No, Switch cannot do that. We'll think about putting it in though.

[Guest Jeffrey]

I'm doing something that might help you: On a windoze machine, I did a dir/s/b>dir.txt from a command prompt in my root music folder, then manipulated that filelisting in Excel into a series of commands that I pasted into a batch file.

 

I used the AFTLAST Excel function (described here: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/strings.htm) to separate the filepath from the filename, but you could take it a step further and use other text functions to strip the drive from the string... java script:emoticon('')

smilie

 

Good luck!

 

*MY* problem is that switch doesn't like reallysuperfantasticallylongfoldernames - 51 characters seems to be the limit in the outputfolder dropdown box; although longer pathnames do appear as dropdown options, they truncate!

[Guest FernRo]

oh, I understand what you want now. No, Switch cannot do that. We'll think about putting it in though.

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Thanks for letting me know. I've started re-ripping to the new disk.

[nchtj]

jeffrey: thanks for pointing that out, don't know how I missed that! It's been fixed and will be out in the next release.