Automatically converting WMA to MP3

[tycho]

I am in the process of re-encoding my CD collection into WMA's at 192K for use on my Media Centre and also thinking about getting a Squeezebox.

Now, my collection will be about 25Gb at this bitrate which will stop me putting a lot of it on my phone so I can listen to it on the train.

Is there a way to monitor my music folder and convert any new WMA's into MP3's at 96K automatically so I can put them onto a memory stick.

[targarama]

Realplayer does a good job of WMAs to MP3s for me by default (with the free version). Not sure about monitoring/automatically doing this all the way to the USB/memory stick, but it would convert to MP3 as it read CDs into the music library.

[Plotloss]

Yep.

Set an automated task to throw the WMA files at a transcoder and then delete the originals.

Schedule it to happen once a day/hour etc

You could script something up to monitor for new WMA files but using automated tasks is probably easiest.

[tycho]

Plotloss said:

Yep. Set an automated task to throw the WMA files at a transcoder and then delete the originals. Schedule it to happen once a day/hour etc You could script something up to monitor for new WMA files but using automated tasks is probably easiest.

That's the kind of thing I want to do but without deleting the original WMA and not re encoding all of the library.

[Plotloss]

There are numerous ways to achieve it.

Bit of DOS Batch scripting, even a bit of vbScript...