Retain folder structure on conversion

athegn

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?

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Older versions of Switch had this ability but it was removed due to implementation issues. It is still possible however with the latest version of Switch, but does require you to create a batch file. This will go through your directories one by one and use Switch to convert the files within that directory:

@ECHO OFF
SET in=C:\User\MP3\
SET out=C:\User\MP3 128\
FOR /D %%G IN (*) DO ECHO Converting files in: %in%%%G & ECHO Saving them to: %out%%%G & ECHO. & "C:\Program Files\NCH Swift Sound\Switch\switch.exe" -addfolder "%in%%%G" -format .mp3 -settings .mp3 CBR 128 TRUE JOINT FALSE -outfolder "%out%%%G" -overwrite PROMPT -convert -hide -exit
ECHO All done!
PAUSE

Simply copy and paste this script into an empty text file, and then rename the text file (including the ".txt" file extension) to "convert.bat". Things to note/change for your setup are the in and out variables. This file must then be placed into the root directory of your folder structure. In this example it would be placed in C:\User\MP3\.

athegn

Will try this once I have purchased my full copy.