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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 the 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 and through 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 sub folders, 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 your cars and MP3 players to carry around, and have wanted to have BOTH Wave & MP3 music files.

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 Format you want to convert to. Choose MP3 or Wav.

Arrow 2.) For MP3, choose the bitrate you want. Default is 128 and that's what most people use. But you can go to 180 if you like or even 320. The files get bigger but the sound is more refined. Many people can't hear the difference at all, so try it out yourself.

Arrow 3.) Choose the Frequency that you want. Standard CD Quality is 44,100. But you can reduce this to reduce your file size if you're just doing voice.

Arrow 4.) Choose Stereo or Mono if you want 2 channels or a single channel.

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.

NEW Note: In the past you could only apply one effect or filter at a time. Now you can apply as many as you like at the same time and there are variable presets for most as well.

Arrow 1a. & 1b.) Choose Batch Apply Effects, Filters or BOTH. There's no limit. Just select all the effects and filters you want to apply and go.

Arrow 2.) . Check the boxes for any of the effects or filters.

Variable Presets Note: As you check each box, you'll see a drop down menu appear offering you presets for just that effect. You can use the default, or increase or decrease most of the effects.

Arrow 3.) I'm just showing you that I'm selecting a 2nd box. In prior versions of the batch converter, there was a limit of one effect or filter at a time. Now there's not.

Arrow 4.) Variable effects. This is where you select the exact amount of each effect you want applied as you check the box for any of the effects or filters. This is new. And it's a super powerful addition.

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.

This Transformer will save you hours as you are converting your files to MP3.

Arrow 1.) Enter the Artist here and it will appear in every loaded track's tags.

Arrow 2.) Enter the Year here and it will appear in every loaded track's tags.

Arrow 3.) Enter the Album Name here and it will appear in every loaded track's tags.

Arrow 4.) Enter the Genre here and it will appear in every loaded track's tags.
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Arrow 5.) Enter any comments you want here and it will appear in every loaded track's tags. Note: this tag is not supported by all players so it might be ignored.

Arrow 6.) Special functions. You can also just strip tags from your MP3 tracks too. When you use the 1-5 functions above, you're adding tags and replacing the ones that were there if there were any. Here you can leave tags the way they are, strip all tags or set the new tags you put in, in arrows 1-5. So now you're in complete control
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.) Simply type in what you want to call your files. The program will make that the file name plus add an ascending sequence number to each.

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.
BATCH Add Prefixs, Endings Or Mixes To Your Files.
This is new and very cool. Let's say that you are producing a group of files and you want to put a standard intro, exit or even mix something into all the files. Companies use this to put a standard corporate intro or exit or maybe a common musical opening to a batch of files. Now it's super easy and automated for you.

Here's how.
Arrow 1.) Just select the file you'd like to play at the BEGINNING of the files you're going to convert. Then you'll get copies where your into will play first, then seamlessly lead into the files you've loaded to convert. The new files are perfect copies of the intro and converted file which, is just what you want had you done it all manually.

Arrow 2.) Just select the file you'd like to play at the END of the files you're going to convert. Then you'll get copies where the file you are converting will play first, then seamlessly lead into the file you've chosen here to be the exit file. The new files are perfect copies of the main file and the exit file, which, is just what you want had you done it all manually.

Arrow 3.) Just select MIX if you'd like a file to be mixed with all the files you are converting. This is often used to provide a common background like maybe surf or wind so a set of files all sound like they were recorded in the same place.

Arrow 4.) This is where you select or remove the files you are adding or mixing.

This is very easy to use and is a very powerful tool to add intros, exits or mixes to your tracks.
 
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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