i have been trying to find a program that will mass transcode 320kbps mp3 cbr to 192kbps mp3 cbr and maintain orignal file structure. i of course do not want to overwrite the originals.

i am aware that transcodeing is evil but in this case needs to be done (portable player)

i have tried cdex which is grate except it keeps crashing and the problem with that is it doesnt seam as though you can just pick up where you left off coz it doesn't seam to do them i a particular order. i have tried foorbar 2000 but it doesn't seam fb2k will maintain file structure, dbpower amp wants me to pay which i am not going to do unless it really does what i want and well. winamp again dont think that keeps file structure unless you write over the originals and i have looked at razor lame but i cant find how to transcode in that apparently it does tho.

any ideas there must be some awsome little prog out there.

foobar would let you maintain the file structure.

If your original file structure is based on tags then you could use tags in your Converter output string to create the structure, e.g.:


If the two don't match exactly, and you want an exact match, then you would need to be using tokens like %directoryname%, $filename% or %path%.

Try searching. My search returned this relevant thread.

Edit: To be a little more specific: Use:


... as the "Output File Name" for single tracks (Converter dialogue), swapping 'X:\320kbps\' for the root of the source files, and 'D:\Portable\192kbps\' for the root for the destination files.