Ok, so after "converting" a few thousand songs from one format to another, how does one delete all the old files? Manually???
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Yes, manually. You can view in column/list mode and sort by various attributes and select a range of file to make this easier if you have your files grouped in a fashion to aid in doing this.
There does not seem to be any way to sort files that allows grouping of those with the new format.
I am supremely glad that I stopped the process after about a dozen conversions, because this is an extremely inelegant procedure. I am frankly shocked that Apply hasn't made mass conversion (rather than mass "create new version") user-friendly.
So much for using Apple lossless. I am forced to stick to WAV.
Sort by Date Created. All the new songs all be at top or bottom.
Or sort by Kind.
May I ask what format you converted the songs from/to and why?
Sweet! I had to find/add the Date Added field to my columns menu (didn't realize there were submenus of selectable fields), but once added, I could sort by date created and confirmed that this will work after I mass batch.
I originally imported all music in WAV format, from my CD collection. My laptop USB connects to an asynchronous DAC on my NAD amp. So in the end I get high fidelity music that I can easily scan and make playlists from.
But now I will convert to Apple lossless for two reasons: 1) smaller files in Apple lossless (WAV doesn't compress at all); and 2) so that I can manually add artwork to the many discs that for one reason or another weren't recognized with Get Album Artwork.
Glad it can be done, but ****, Apple should make this far more automated (like via a 'Convert to Different Version' menu item next to 'Create New Version').
Re: How to convert a song to a different file format
