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I have about 4800 songs in my library.

When I first did my search of New Wave, it found 0 songs. So I selected Search in Folder and Search in Drives which returned 100 and 40. When I go into media monkey, that search returns 400 songs... so I cannot figure out why VDJ only brings back 140 songs. For both applications, I am searching the GENRE tag so why such a big difference? Maybe my files are not in the database??? which begs the question, How do I add the files to the database???

Just to make sure things were configured, I deleted my database file and I let the system recreate it... still no luck.

joe...
 
Mensajes Fri 20 Dec 13 @ 8:18 pm
After deleting my database and creating a new monitored folder, I now only see files when I select the Select in Folder option.
 
I see my problem. Those files missing the tags are WMA files... so Media Monkey reads these tages but VDJ does not :-(
 
Ok, so I've got 1300 WMA files spanning hundreds of different folders. Does anyone know of a conversion tool that will allow me to update all of these files at once (batch) but still keep my file structure in tack, so as the file is converted to MP3 format, it stores the file in the same directory are the original WMA. All the tools I am finding allow me to select from multiple directories but store in 1... and I don't want to have to re-do my file structure.


joe....
 
Ok, I downloaded a tool cooled EZ softmagic and that does what I need... to create a MP3 with all of the tags from the WMA and for that new file to live in the original WMA folder...whew.... Looking at a couple hours of conversion..

joe...
 
An issue I see with converting one lossy file (WMA) to another lossy file (MP3), is the music fidelity lost durning the conversion. And it will be even more noticeable on a sound system capable of faithfully reproducing the audio quality of an original recording. There will be music lost in that conversion.

There is a tool that can pull the tag info from your files and put them into the VDJ database. But, I don't think your license level can get to it.
http://www.virtualdj.com/addons/13224/VDJFlacTags.html

The best options for you, IMO, would be to upgrade or enter the information manually.
VDJ should have pulled some of the info from the file names depending on how you have it structured.

 
I was worried about sound quality too. I noticed that about 95% of my WMAs were at 128kbps so when I converted to MP3, i changed that value to 192 in hope that I would not loose file integrity. At first, I did like 10 songs and then compared the sound quality of the two and I could not tell any difference between the two so I went ahead and converted my library... took just over an hour but I think I have great sound and all of the tags came over perfectly. I still have the original WMA files incase I need to do another conversion again.

joe...
 
godwentpunk wrote :
compared the sound quality of the two and I could not tell any difference between the two so I went ahead and converted my library...

joe...


No worries, the loss with recoding is extremely minimal, and as you say, you cant tell the difference.

One note, setting to 192kbits mp3 is kinda useless, since the original file was 128k ... the mp3 encoder cant make up more data out of nothing, so converting to 128k would be fine ..

But since you already did 192 thats ok ..
 
In the future, please convert using the highest bit rate of 320kbps, if you are using mp3. Hard drives are cheap, and there is not a good reason, to use lower bit rates.
 
...But that is only good if your ripping from a CD, not a file to file conversion like Dj-in-norway stated..

Good Luck..
 
godwentpunk wrote :
Ok, I downloaded a tool cooled EZ softmagic and that does what I need... to create a MP3 with all of the tags from the WMA and for that new file to live in the original WMA folder...whew.... Looking at a couple hours of conversion..

joe...



Since you already have Media Monkey, why not use it to convert the WMA to MP3 ?
 
JoeyKJ wrote :
...But that is only good if your ripping from a CD, not a file to file conversion like Dj-in-norway stated..

Good Luck..


That is correct, you can't make a file better by changing the text. He does not know that, and I do not know where or how he is getting his music. He seems to think that 192kbps is a suitable quality. If he just wants to play for himself, that may be OK, but I think he should know that you can tell the difference with a 320kbps file.
 
When I rip from my CD's I always try to rip at the highest rate.. I just did not know if converting WMA to MP3 would account for any loss if I kept the bitrate the same, so I just went to 192 to be on the same side. When I DJ, I've noticed that the higher bitrate songs I have of course sound great, and I'm guessing that because it was ripped at that rate.

As for media monkey, I'm using the freebee version and that one does not allow you rip songs.

Thanks again to everyone's input and advice.

joe...
 
godwentpunk wrote :
Ok, so I've got 1300 WMA files spanning hundreds of different folders. Does anyone know of a conversion tool that will allow me to update all of these files at once (batch) but still keep my file structure in tack, so as the file is converted to MP3 format, it stores the file in the same directory are the original WMA. All the tools I am finding allow me to select from multiple directories but store in 1... and I don't want to have to re-do my file structure.


joe....


I use dbpoweramp

www.dbpoweramp.com

you can convert a batch of files at once from different folders, and select to leave the converted file in the folder as the original file.

it will keep the same name format

you can the just go back to each folder search for the .wma files and delete them,,,,,,,once you are sure the new .mp3 versions are there
 


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