<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Sorry I can't be of more help. You are at a significant disadvantage by operating on a PC. Of all the systems which can run flac, the PC is going to have the most crippled command line abilities. You could look at installing a shell which would handle wildcards ... or you could look into some of those batch files that you've found. I'm just pointing out that not everyone is in the same boat, so not everyone can tell you what commands will work for you.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Brian</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 10, 2007, at 13:25, Tim wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007">My FLAC files reside on my Infrant NV (XRAID) and are also backed up</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007">on my PC and on an external USB HDD. That makes 3 copies.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007">I've read most everything on the FLAC site, but as I have mentioned</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007">I don't know much about structuring a command line. My PC is also</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007">quite old (early P4 from 2000 w/256MB RAM) so I think it will take a LOT </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007">of time for this </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007">to run through over 1200 CDs worth of FLAC files. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007">Hence my desire to </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007">get it right the first time. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007">I can only assume that this will take my PC more than</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007">a day uninterrupted (that's also with 0 crashes - very optimistic).</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007">I would not ask for command syntax help if I did not need it.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007">I most definitely do need help.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007">I read through the examples on a previous thread (converting to 1.1.3)</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007">including an example from Josh himself,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007">but the instructions were not entirely clear to me.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007">I'm not an idiot, I just need a hand.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="694311420-10042007">Tim</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR> <DIV><SPAN class="694311420-10042007"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"> > </FONT></SPAN>If your files are that important, then you should make a complete backup <SPAN class="694311420-10042007"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"> </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="694311420-10042007"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">></FONT> </SPAN>before you change anything. After you have a backup, you can learn how <SPAN class="694311420-10042007"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"> </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="694311420-10042007"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">></FONT> </SPAN>to use the command line without worrying about mistakes. For that matter, <SPAN class="694311420-10042007"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"> </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="694311420-10042007"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">></FONT> </SPAN>copy a subset of your old files to a new directory, and try some of the commands.</DIV> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>