Hello everyone.
My first post on here so please be gentle.

I searched high and low on the forum but couldn't find an answer to my question so thought I would post my problem here to see if anyone can help. What I want to do should be fairly simple but not sure how to go about it.

Basically I have a folder full of Mp3 files and I want to be able to run a command line tool to scan the files and move them to a seperate folder if they are VBR type Mp3s.
Now the key is I want a Command line tool to be able to do this so I can run it from a Batch file.
Anyone have any ideas on what would work?

Wakt

Using Foobar2000 you could save an .m3u playlist with just those VBR mp3's, then rename the playlist with the .bat extension and of course edit the batch file to include the parameters of the move operation.

I already know the downfalls of my suggestion being that those VBR mp3's that have an average bitrate that displays at what CBR mp3's are, e.g., 160, 192, 224 would cause allot of work, nonetheless it can be accomplished.

Thanks for the reply Andavari but I want a Command line tool to actually scan the files to check if they are VBR type mp3s and hopefully move the files to a folder. The reason is I allready use EncSpot to check for the VBR files and then copy and paste them into a new folder. The thing is I want to automate the process by not using Foobar or Encspot but a command line tool I can drop into a folder with the batch file and run it and leave it alone to do its stuff.

The reason I am doing this is because it take a while to sort out my music to burn onto cd to play in my Denon 3500 Dj Decks. So I decided to start putting together commandline tools to do the work that I would normal do by using windows applications.

My steps when using windows applications are as follows :

1) Use EncSpot to check for Sync Errors. Files with errors are moved to a error folder.
2) Use EncSpot to check for VBR type files. Move VBR type files to VBR folder.
3) Use Lame to Transcode the VBR type files to CBR files and add to existing CBR Mp3s once done (I know I shouldn't but I must as the Denon Dj Decks I have play VBR files but wont allow me to make loop points or see how much time is left on the song playing)
4) Rename files using Magic File Renamer to my naming convention.
5) Use ID3Tagit to strip out all ID3 data and change the ID3 tags according to the filenames.
6) Mp3Gain files.
7) Burn to Cd
8) Finally Done

So you can see I have alot of work to get done to get my music onto the decks ready to play and I am trying to automate the process as much as possible and save time.

Things I have sorted out using Commandline tools and batch files so far are :

3) Using lame to Transode the VBR files using command line.
4) Rename files using a command line tool.
5) ID3 tag files using command line tool
6) Mp3gain using commandline tool.

So all I have left is to find a way to filter out the VBR files to a folder and also
hopefully find a way to check for Synch errors using a command line tool (I tried looking last night but no luck).
So thats where I currently stand and Foobar wont help as its not command line based as far as I know.
Anyone else with any suggestions?

Try using catwalk. You can find it along with some other neat command line utilities at
http://tangerine.uw.hu/prog . The main benefit is that you can set it up to call any program you want and pass it any of a number of variables. Take a look at the readme. It's a nice tool for automating all sorts of things like tagging, renaming, moving files, checking files, etc.

Step 1) mp3check or MP3val
Step 2) mp3check (see above)
Step 3) MP3packer (command line) or WinMP3Packer (GUI frontend for MP3packer) allow lossless conversion of VBR MP3s to CBR MP3s. Step 2 becomes more or less obsolete since you can throw both VBR and CBR files at MP3 repacker, but speed may be an issue.

Thanks for the information. Will look them up and see how I go. Much appreciated.