Is there a way to convert thousands of songs to MP3 format at once?

[bsoder52]

Looks like I'm going to need to convert almost my entire collection of music (20gb) from M4a to MP3 to run in the Etouch jukebox front end.  Anyone know of a good free or cheap tool that can do this all at once?  I have a converter, but it only does one song at a time and will take forever.

Thanks inadvance!
Bsoder52

[spauldingd]

No.  There is nothing that would convert them all at once.  dBPoweramp is the best program I know of to let you batch them up, but it will still only convert them one at a time.  If you have a multi-core machine, the best you could do is to run two copies of dBPoweramp start it up and let it run.

Dave in Des Moines

[Fordman]

I convert using this:

http://www.poikosoft.com/ Easy CD-DA Extractor.

It will do them one at a time, but put a couple hundred in there before going to bed and they should be done by the time you get up in the morning!

Give it a try!

 

Fordman

[bsoder52]

ok, will give it a try, thanks for the advice!!!!
 

[DillonFoulds]

+1 for dbpoweramp.

Over 100,000 mp3s, and a combination of dbpoweramp, and zortam mp3 studio has helped TONS in the conversion.renaming process!

[Space Fractal]

Just to been noticed, if you convert, you might get worse sound quality because they got compressed twice (just like if you edit a compressed jpg file).

If you have older iTunes songs using mp4, I recommered to use 256kbit or 196kbit (they orignally in 128kbit), so make sure it dont take even more info out of the song (you dont get cleaner sound quality, but its more make sure you dont get worse quality).

Best is updated to drm free versions of the songs.

So I my self never do that (except wma to mp4, so iTunes/iPhone can play them, but I do kept both versions).