[dba-Tech] WMA catalog

AF>  I am prepared to convert all the WMA files to MP3 but don't know how.

Best & easiest tool I know for this I know is Media Monkey. For best 
results, set mp3 sampling to 256. Indistinguishable from WMA for 
everyone 'cept my grandkids.

PB

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On 7/4/2011 2:36 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> Recently, due to a link posted here, I got steered (thanks!) to a site by
> somebody named Kennedy (can't find the reference while emailing, but he
> offered an XLS file that could grab all the MP3s in a named folder and all
> its subfolders. I wonder if anyone has something that can do the same for
> WMA files rather than MP3 files (i.e. walk the selected folder and all its
> subfolders and slide all found entries into a folder listing all the tracks'
> attributes in a spreadsheet; or even better, directly into a spreadsheet).
>
> All these requirements said, what said Folder-Walker is likely to find are
> numerous entries of the same title(s). Most often this occurs in the
> Classical and Jazz genres, and occasionally in R&R covers, though that is
> the slimmest case. Much more likely, the Walker would find several (about 9
> and counting) versions of various Beethoven, Mozart, Mingus, Monk tunes, and
> some of these are "crossover", as when Kronos Quartet plays Monk.
>
> I have about 20GB of music recorded, which falls into several broad genres,
> the least-populated of which is "Recent Pop" -- not to cast aspersions on
> this sector of the music world, but simply to say that I have about 20
> recordings on file of "The Rite of Spring", "The Four Seasons", "Cello
> Sonatas by Beethoven", and not to mention about 200 CDs worth of classical
> Indian music which are of interest by Rag/Tal/Players. All of this is
> recorded as WMAs.
>
> So the questions are two:
>
> 1. Can I convert these to MP3, and in said conversion is anything (other
> than complicity with the spreadsheet) achieved. Lossiness is not an option.
> 2. Is there some way to catalog all these WMA files into an XL spreadsheet
> or Access db and grab all the salient documentation features?
>
> Forgive me for choosing the Windows default. I am prepared to convert all
> the WMA files to MP3 but don't know how. But I would like to catalog that .5
> TB of music that occupies space on my Hard Disks, and to create a catalog so
> that I can do things like search for every occurrence of "Martha My Dear" or
> "Epistrophy" or :"Coltrane" or "Piano Sonatas" and auto-create lists of all
> these tracks by genre, composer, etc.
>
> Can anyone provide help in how to do this? In the ideal world, I would end
> up with an Access db which I could then export|import into anything I want,
> from an initial destination of XL or CSV or other format.
>
> Arthur
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