Question for mp3 knowitalls

[cheung31]

If you are thinking of converting the WMA's to mp3, it converts faster than real time, so don't worry about it converting for a month. With Goldwave, there's a Batch Processing if you go to File>Batch Processing

then you can just do a whole bunch at once, sit back and relax

[Faid1]

1. Don't convert music unless you have a reason to (Ipod won't play .wma for example)
2. Winamp lets you add a directory in one click, so if you have hundreds of folders inside another folder, every song will be added. You can then save the playlist as an .m3u playlist file which can be loaded by almost all music players.

[FurnaceFace]

Faid had the right idea, using Winamp makes it easy.

If I understand it right, you have a dozen or so top level folders and sub folders under those (as you should to keep the "artists" seperate).

If you have a top level music folder above your category folders just select that and let Winamp or whatever build your giant playlist.

[Hack&Lube]

I can't believe you guys are giving him so many complicated answers, even to using various softwares and even converting files. Oh man. Just select the entire harddrive from My Computer, left click, search.

In the seach field: *.mp3

and every mp3 file in there will show up. You can then do CTRL-A and highlight them all and drag them into whatever program/playlist you want.

If you have other music formats in those directories (like wma, wav, etc.) and you want those in your playlist too, you can just select the top most music directory, search *.* and it will pickup every file in there.

[4X4]

Radical... Control-A, search *.mp3... Thanks Lube

[Barnes]

When you choose this radical method, iTunes may create a folder in your My Music folder and copy and reorganize depending on what info you have in your ID3 tags.

[arsenal]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

I can't believe you guys are giving him so many complicated answers, even to using various softwares and even converting files. Oh man. Just select the entire harddrive from My Computer, left click, search.

In the seach field: *.mp3

Or just search the entire hard drive using this:
*.mp3,*.wmv,*.m4a or any other music file that you have on your computer.

[4X4]

Thanks guys... God I love the power of CP. I can't believe I didn't know this stuff (but I bet some of you can).

[T I M]

First of all Itunes is trash, avoid if possible.

As for installing a jukebox on the external hdd it can be done, and should work on your computer. However if the program is dependant on registry entries located on your computer it might not work on somebody elses. To play all those files on somebody else's computer you could do as FurnaceFace said and put them all into a giant playlist(takes 2 clicks, none of this ctrl+A search garbage) and save the playlist file (.m3u). Most people with computers will have a program that can recognize this be it winamp, windows media player, or others.