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| Now you can harness this extremely powerful tool to make short work of most
of your repeated music tasks. Now you can transform 1 track, a 100 tracks or even
a 1000 tracks with one simple operation. This all new tool will save you hours
of effort. Be sure to test out what each section can do for you. You will find
that you use these every day. 1.) Convert Tracks from Wave to MP3 and choose any bitrate from 8-320Kbps. Convert Tracks from MP3 to Wave and choose 8 or 16 bits. NOTE: Bitrate defined. Bitrate is the amount of information passed in a given amount of time. It's like resolution in a picture, in that the more bits the finer the 'grain' would be. So in short, the better the musical quality. 128Kbps is the standard used for most MP3. So more will make a bigger file and sound better, and less will be a smaller file and not sound as good. Bitrate isn't speed, but rather quantity of bits passed for a set amount of time. 2.) Convert the bitrate for MP3 or the sample rate for Wav within its own format. 3.) Apply the most used filters and effects to groups of files. Add echo, amplify+ or – band pass filters and more. And Normalize a group of tracks to have volume stable as you later play from track to track. 4.) Batch Tag MP3 files. If you have converted 12 tracks from a record. Click once to apply the Artist Name, Album Name and Year. 5.) Batch Renamer. This batch processor you may also use for files other than your music files. It will take any group of files in a folder and strip off the file names and let you assign a prefix name and then assign ascending track numbers like My New File Name_1, My New File Name_2 and so on. |
Windows
Navigation 1. |
| OK, you probably don't need this but Here's how to navigate in Windows. Windows
is set up in a system of drives and folders. You go to the drive and then into
a folder on your drive. It's just like a folder in a filing cabinet. You've got
the cabinet. Then you've got your folders. Then you've got the papers in your
folders. The papers in your folders are like the files we make of your tracks.
Sometimes there are folders within folders, called subfolders, but that's easy too. To better understand the metaphor, just grab a few folders and put some papers in each of them. Then put them all in another folder. OK, now you know how Windows works. It's just folders with files (papers) in other folders. When you click any of the Target Folder, Input Folder or Output Folder buttons you'll see screens or we call them dialog boxes like these above. Just click on drives and folders to find what you want. Arrow 1.) I've shown you My Computer. Above it is My Desktop. My desktop is just a folder on your computer. It has other folders in it but it's just a folder. So from here you can look on your desktop or you can go to your C: drive below and find the input folder you want. Arrow 2.) In the 2nd picture below you'll see I have clicked on the Harmony Folder. That's the folder that I want for this process. But you'd choose any folder you wanted. |
Windows
Navigation 2. |
| Here I've just selected the folder that I want to send my converted files
to. I've called it My Target Folder, but you can just make a folder and call it
anything you want. NOTE: Just don't use anything but letters or numbers in any file or folder name you make in Windows. Don't use '/?.: or anything like those characters. |
BATCH
CONVERT Sample & Bitrates. |
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| All the batch transformers work pretty much alike. You load your files and
choose what you want to do. You always get a new copy of the file so choose a
new folder to send your copies to. And then, when you're done, you can delete
the originals. In the Batch Sample & Bitrate Transformer, without changing your file format, you can change the bitrate and frequency in MP3 and the sample rate and frequency in Wave. Why would you want to do that? File size. If you need smaller files you can reduce the file size dramatically with the bitrate and sample rate controls. If you are putting MP3s up on the web, reduce the bitrate. If it's spoken word, you can reduce the bitrate quite a bit without loosing intelligibility. Try a sample file at any bitrate and then listen to it to see how it sounds and right click it and choose properties to see how much space you've saved. It's a compromise you need to listen to. Then transform all your tracks. Arrow 1.) Choose Batch Convert Sample Rate. Arrow 2.) Add the file(s) you want to convert. Arrow 3.) Choose the Target Folder where you want to send the transformed files. Arrow 4.) Choose the Frequency. 44,100 is standard CD. And there's no point in going up from where you are. You can't increase frequency; you can only cut it back. Arrow 5.) Choose if you want your converted files to be Mono or Stereo. Arrow 6a.) For converted Wav files you can choose 16 bit standard or 8 bit to save space. Arrow 6b.) For MP3, you can choose bitrates from 8 to 320Kbps. Arrow 7.) Click the Transform Button and your files will be converted. |
Windows
Browse Box Enhanced. |
| Some Browse Boxes we've been able to enhance. It works the same as the boxes
above. You still navigate to the folder you want. But then, you can do some selections. Arrow 1.) Navigate to the folder that has the files you want. Arrow 2.). Choose MP3 or Wav files. Arrow 3.) Choose the actual files you want. If you click on the top file and then hold down the shift key on your keyboard, you can select a whole group by clicking a file part way or all the way down the list. For choosing random files hold down the Control Key on your keyboard and click the files you want. Arrow 4.) Click OK to load your files. |
BATCH
APPLY Effects Or Filters Fast. |
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| The new Batch Effects and Filters Transformer is awesome. We've been trying
to get this built for almost 2 years. Now you can make 100s of your files sound
exactly as you want them to with just a single operation. Add echo, amplify, compress
dynamic range and more to large or small groups of files. Normalize Volume - Make All Tracks A Similar Volume Note: The rest of the filters in this transformer add or subtract the effect or filter. Batch Normalize attempts to make all your tracks a similar volume level so regardless of their source, when you burn a CD or play your MP3 files, you won't have to fiddle with your volume control as you go from track to track. Arrow 1.) Choose the Batch Apply Effect or Filter tab. Arrow 2.) . Choose the Target Folder where you want to send your transformed tracks. Arrow 3.) Add all the files/tracks you want to apply the filter or effect to. Arrow 4.) Choose the Effect or Filter you want to apply to all the tracks. Arrow 5.) Click Convert. Now you can transform hundreds of tracks to sound just the way you want them to. Note: If you want to make more than 1 change, just run the process again to add a 2nd effect or filter. There's no problem or downside to running as many effects and filters as you like. |
BATCH
ID TAGGER - SUPER POWER FOR MP3. |
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| Now that we are all getting iPods or other MP3 players, it's critical that
we can easily add all the tags to our MP3 files. With CDs you really can't see
track names, album names and artist names. With MP3 you can. Here's how you can
easily add Artists, Album, Year and in some cases comments and Genre. Note: I did not show the Genre because there are many unrecognized types in this category and since it doesn't work for many of them I recommend not using the Genre choice in the Tag batch transformer. This Transformer will save you hours as you are converting your files to MP3. Arrow 1.) Choose The Batch ID Tagger Tab. Arrow 2.) Choose your Target Folder to send your tagged files to. Arrow 3.) Add the files you want to tag. Normally all the files from an album or tape. Arrow 4a.) Type in the Artist Name, the Album Name and the Year. All these tags will be applied to all the files you've loaded. Arrow 5.) Click the Tag'em Button to send all the files to your target folder. |
Your
Newly Tagged Files. |
| I just wanted you to see what the tags would look like when you
were finished. Arrow 1.) Artist: Limeliters will show anywhere you play this file. Arrow 2.) Album will show. Arrow 3.) Year will show. Arrow 4.) Duration will show. Now you'll have an easy way to tag all your MP3s so they will be easy to sort and use in your iPod or other MP3 player, or on your computer using DAK's Tune Library Jukebox or Window's Media player, or just about any MP3 player you use. |
BATCH
RENAME Your Files. |
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| This is a very useful tool, but not necessarily just for your music. Last
year I had to rename 800 spacescape images and I had a heck of a time finding
a program to do it. I had several groups of pictures all from different collections
and I needed to number them sequentially. I also had 2000 pattern backgrounds
for the DAK CD Label printing program I hope you've acquired by now. Anyway I
used an early version of this and decided to add this to our program so you could
use it too. What it does it takes all the files you put in a folder and lets you apply a fixed name to all of them and then it numbers them sequentially. So, no matter what your files are called now, you can give them all the same prefix and the transformer will then number them so they look like My New File Name_1 My New File Name_2 and so on. Here's how to use it. Arrow 1.) Choose the Batch File Renamer Tab. Arrow 2.) Choose your Target Folder. Arrow 3.) Add the files you want to rename. Arrow 4.) Type in what you want to call them. Arrow 5.) Click Convert. This is very easy to use and is a very powerful tool if you want to batch rename any group of files. |
BATCH
RENAMED Files FAST. |
| I just wanted you to see that here I renamed 3 files; 2 text files and 1 outlook
express file. You could do hundreds of MP3, Wave or other files and they can even
be mixed. All you're doing is changing the file name and adding a number. Arrow 1.) This was a text file and it's the 1st so it's numbered _0 Arrow 2.) My second file was an outlook express email, now it's _1 Arrow 3.) Here's another text file and now it's _2 So 1 file or 1000 can all have the name you choose and be sequentially numbered for you fast and easy with just one single operation. |
| A few last things that I want to mention.
The more music you convert, record and add to your computer, the more you'll find the 5 new batch transformer functions will help you get your music the way you want it faster and better. I promise to keep developing ways to make your conversions faster, easier and better. Please use the tutorial review email link below to let me know what you'd like me to try working on next, to make your enjoyment of your music even better. Enjoy. . . Drew
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