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Fast Changes & Effects for 1 or hundreds of Tracks
Drew's Batch Transforming Tutorial Tracks, Effects, MP3s, Wavs & Tags
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.


Quick Index
Major Tutorial Sections
How Do I Batch Convert Wav to MP3 & MP3 to Wav?
How Do I Batch Apply Effects & Filters?
How Do I Batch Tag MP3 Files?
How Do I Batch Rename Files?
How Do I Navigate in Windows?


THE INPUT OUTPUT TARGET FOLDER RULE

What's an INPUT or OUTPUT or TARGET FOLDER? The Batch Transformer and many of DAK's tools process your files and make a new copy of your file. But we don't destroy your original file. We leave it as is and make a copy. Well we send your copies or parts to another folder. That folder where we send your tracks is called a Target Folder or Output folder. And, we get your file from a Source or Input File.

How do you choose your Output Folder, Input Folder or Target Folder? You'll usually see a button with 3 dots on it like this . . . Or (Arrow 4) shows you the Set target Path.
You DO NOT TYPE IN YOUR FOLDER ADDRESS. Simply click the . . . Button or the Set Target Path Button and navigate to the folder using the normal Windows Browse Dialog box that comes up when you click on the . . .Button or Set Target Path Button.

Now you know how to use . . . Target Buttons, Input Buttons and Output Buttons.

Arrow 1.) Add as many files to the batch transformer as you like.

Arrow 2.) Highlight any file you don't want to transform and click Remove.

Arrow 3.) Clear all files from the batch transformer.

Arrow 4.) Set Target Path. This means choose the folder you want to send all the copies of the files you transform to. The originals will be untouched and the new transformed copies will end up in the new target folder.

Arrow 5.) This is just the window where you can see the files you are going to make copies of and transform.

See how to Navigate to through the your computer's folders below.
 
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.

Arrow 3.) I'm showing you that I'm in the Harmony folder.

Arrow 4.) Here I'm selecting files to convert.

IMPORTANT SELECTING SHORTCUT NOTE: You can click on a single file to load it. You can hold down the shift key and keep clicking on adjacent files to load as many as you like at once. Or you can hold down Control and click on random files in a folder to load all of them at once. These are standard Windows shortcuts for you to use.
Target Folder.
Arrow 1.) 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.

Arrow 2.) Just click OK to select your target folder.

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.

OK, Now that you know how to add files and set your target folder, let's transform some music files.
BATCH CONVERT WAVE TO MP3 AND MP3 TO WAVE FAST.
A NEW SUPER EXTRA. Many DAKonians (that's you guys) have BOTH CDs in their cars and MP3 players to carry around and have wanted to have BOTH Wave & MP3 music files.

Also thousands of you have converted LPs and Cassettes to CDs with our LPs to CDR Perfection system that now includes our Wave Editor.

One problem has been that Click & Pop filters and our recording equalizer require WAVE files, not MP3 files. The reason for that is that you can't do much but play or stream MP3 files because they are compressed. So, there's been a lot of saving back and forth.

OK, so now we have included the Batch Wave to MP3 and MP3 to Wave converter. Just put all the tracks (files) you want to convert in one folder and have them copied to another and you can convert 1, 10 or 100 tracks automatically. You'll love the freedom and time saving.

It's easy to use.

Arrow 1.) Choose the Batch Convert Format from the 5 Transformer Tabs.

Arrow 2.) First Choose the Input Folder. You click the . . .Button to Access the ability to Navigate to where you have the files you want to convert.

Arrow 3.) Then choose a new folder (one you probably just made) to receive the newly converted files.

Arrow 4.) Choose if you want to convert from MP3 to Wav or Wav To MP3. Remember if there are 10 files or 1000 files in the folder, they will all be converted automatically for you.

Arrow 5.) If you are converting to MP3 from Wave, you can also choose your bitrate. The Industry standard is 128. If you want to stay with the standard, just ignore this step. If you want bigger (maybe better sounding) files, choose a higher bitrate and if you want smaller, (not as good sounding files) but much smaller files, choose a lower bitrate. It's all about file size with MP3. For the MP3 to Wav conversion, choose 16 bit standard or 8 bit to save space.

If you want to use standard 44,100 and stereo, just click the Convert Button and it will automatically convert all your files. It's just that easy to use. It will convert every file in your folder automatically.

Arrow 6.) Choose if you want your converted files to be Mono or Stereo.

Arrow 7.) Click the Convert Button and your files will be converted.


Now you can effortlessly convert as many files as you like from format to format quickly and easily.
BATCH APPLY Effects Or Filters Fast.
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.
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.
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.
BATCHxxxx Your Files.

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.
 
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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