db PowerAmp Music Converter

[mccoady]

I haven't used this for awhile but my son has db PowerAmp Music Converter on his computer and I also have it. He bought and downloaded some Flac files (to his M Drive) which we need to convert to Wav files which is easy to do for single files but if I remember right you should be able to do a batch conversion by either selecting to convert the whole folder or by selecting all the files to convert.

He has his music files on M Drive (another internal drive) not his normal C Drive so when he tries to select several files at once to convert, Windows automatically starts copying them instead of leaving them highlighted just for the conversion.

Does this Windows action have anything to do with his music files not being on his C Drive? Is there anyway for me select several files on his M Drive so it doesn't start copying files?

[minidv2dvd]

it should work like this. start db poweramp music conversion program. a file browser should pop up. navigate into the folder with the songs you want to convert. left click on the first one, then hold down alt and click on each additional file individually or scroll to the last one and hold down shift and click on it. that should highlight all the files you selected, then click the open button at the bottom.

[mccoady]

I'm pretty sure that's what I was doing but as soon as I held down the Alt button Windows starting copying files. I usually take over his computer using LogMeIn to do things like this for him (he's blind) but for some strange reason I can't connect to his computer right now maybe LMI because disabled.

[Ai Haibara]

If he right-clicks on any one of the FLAC files, does an option with the dbPowerAmp icon, saying something like "Convert with dbPowerAmp," show up in the menu?

How is he selecting the files? Assuming you do have dbPowerAmp set to integrate with Explorer, all you have to do is highlight the files, then right-click on them and use the above option. I'm not sure about folders, as I've never attempted that.

Edit: Why use Alt? I'm not sure I understand.

[minidv2dvd]

alt is for selecting multiple files individually like if you want to skip some in a list. shift is for selecting consecutive files in a list.

[Ai Haibara]

But, I do that with Ctrl. (Just experimented with Alt, and all it did was switch highlight to the next file I clicked.) That's why I was confused - I normally use Ctrl and Shift in selecting files, but not Alt.

[minidv2dvd]

sorry i may have the wrong key. i wasn't actually trying it - just typing from memory and the memory ain't what used to be

[mccoady]

Okay finally got it to work I hadn't actually been opening db converter before I highlighted the files so now it works. Thanks!