is it me or there is no such option in the diskwriter?

recently I had to convert a lot of wav into flac and i had no free space to keep both types of files, and I needed this option, but I just didn't find it.

Maybe there is another way to convert files with "delete source files" in Foobar2000?

thanks.

There is no such option for safety reasons.

maybe it's possible to make such option with a password entering, which ask the password before converting with the option turned on?

edit: or which ask to type some text field to confirm, random words or letters, or maybe something like "yes, i agree to delete source files"?

I think the problem is rather what happens if the output file is bad since foobar can't possibly check the output from lossy encoders etc.

And for lossless output it would need to runa bitcompare to check if everything went right.

Well, in my case I have to trust to the software anyway, I can't check few hundred's of files at once. I need the "delete" option anyway, if foobar doesn't have it I will use another converter, which probably worse. Not a big deal of course, but would be better to stay within well coded Foobar and trust to it than search in a bunch converters and use something that probably works ok.

Anyway, It would be nice If anyone knows a tested freeware batch converter with a support basic formats - wav, ogg, flac, mp3 and etc.

Thanks.

I recently had to convert 200GB of WMA Lossless to WAvPack Lossless.
As I didn't have plenty of HD room to do it in one batch,for me 40 GB (and was also afraid to make an ordinary HD work for many hours without pauses), I worked like that:

1) Add WMAs to a playlist for a total of GB a bit less than the room you have;

2) Select them all and convert them checking the "open dir when finished"

3) When finished, at least check the existence of a new file for each of the old ones. This is easy if you have associated your audio files with FB (if you didn't just be sure to have at least one in the new format and one in the old and then run the fooassoc.exe you find in FB dir). In my case, I had just to visually check if I had a red iconed file (wv) against each yellow iconed one (wma). In this way it's been easy to find a couple of orphan, probably broken, originals (among about 10000 files) that Diskwriter couldn't convert.

4) Then, as they are still selected, with Massdelete you can get rid of them all in just one click.

Easy, safe and it lets you change your mind.

Of course if you have only a tiny space left on your HD your request is more meaningful.

It took about five nights work of my AMD FX53 to get to the end of the task.

I'd advocate the idea of a delting button - for security reasons, there should however be a check!