Thread: files to Audio mp3's

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

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Damn, windoze does not say what file type is in the properties... It could be WMA or one of his friends that dont work too well on a lot of devices(Like car stereos for one)...

If you dont mind using an Audio(sound) converter, you could open the file in the application and it will convert to .mp3... I use "Sound Converter", but thats a Linux App... I know windows 10 can run linux app's natively but only if you impliment the linux subsystem on windows 10...

Sound converter will process as many files as you attach, my average per file is 1 to 2 minutes from ogg, wma, mp4 etc to mp3... My computer does 8 at a time as my processor has 8 threads(I have opened about 20 at once tho)...

If someone knows the commands to access to the file type, then you can work from there, but if you try doing anything to that file by renaming you may corrupt it...Either someone who knows windows commands to get type or using a converter, which should read the type when opened, either way its not just a case of renaming the files yet...

Originally Posted by Wraithe

Damn, windoze does not say what file type is in the properties...

Windows gets the "file type" from the extension.
As there is no extension, there is no file type to be read.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Windows gets the "file type" from the extension.
As there is no extension, there is no file type to be read.

Ah but then how would windows known what application(program) to associate with the file... An extension is not needed in the file name because the file Identity is associated by the file type in the properties along with certain attributes...

file extensions are not always part of the file name, its just required in some systems(like usb players) because the codecs that are built in look for the extension in the file name...

Example is this file details:

Name: MCS07
Type: PDF document (application/pdf)

There is no other detail in the name, just "MCS07", but it is associated with document viewer as that sees the .pdf and associates with it..

Those two bits of information is required by the os, along with other parameters, like who owns it, who can use it and who can modify it... You can even find the original signatures of most files, last time they where accessed and when they where first saved... In the case of PDF, Images and music, there are a whole list of extra information saved with the original saving of the file...(and you can also remove a lot when you modify and save them under a new name, too)...

Originally Posted by PeterJ

There is a great little program (free) called FileRenamer, I use the Win (basic) version and it is excellent at this type of task. It can remove unwanted spaces, rename, change extensions, add numbers, add or delete pre-fixes and it's easy to use, just google it.

Peter

Thanks Peter

and thanks to Mr Marsh and Wraithe for their efforts

You're welcome I suggest you copy 20 or 30 files into a separate folder and then play with the program to understand what it does and how it works then you can go and process your actual files without any fear of burning them.
Enjoy
Peter

any suggestions on how to delete JUST the space in front of the song titles?

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

any suggestions on how to delete JUST the space in front of the song titles?

rename, once you are able to edit the file, just use backspace to take the first letter back to the beginning... But if you are converting the files, you should be able to rename when you resave it, using "Save as"...

windows rename wont allow this as it thinks both names are the same,,
used TigiTago,