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Guys, how do I mass-zip files?...
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I have an mp3, and an accompanying karaoke file, so about 14,000 different files, 7,000 mp3s, 7,000 karaoke files. I want to essentially zip each of the two corresponding file types together. I want to finish with 7,000 zip files. Is there a way I can zip these together into 7,000 different zip archives or rar archives without, you know, doing it 7,000 times?
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This is relatively simple on a *nix machine.
This is a good question to answer, since it would be easier on Unix (/Apple by extension), but I *think* cygwin comes with a zip utility that would make it possible the same way on a Windows machine
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though of course it depends on what it's set up as - if they have the same name but different extensions it's a trivial 5 line script, if the files aren't connected to each other in some reasonable way it'll be a pain in the ass
Would you know of a script that could accomplish those things I'm looking to do? I don't know the first thing about what to type in to execute what I'm aiming for.
Are they all in the same directory?
It's a few hundred folders in one big folder.... each folder has maybe 15-20 tracks.
Here we go.
1.) Download this command line zip utility
2.) From that zip archive, you only need to extract the zip.exe file. Place the zip.exe file in the base folder where you store your mp3/karaoke files
3.) Copy and paste the "code" below into a batch file into a file called "mkmp3zip.bat" in the base folder where you store your mp3/karaoke files (i.e. same place as the zip.exe file)
@echo off rem If we have no arguments, then it is assumed that we recurse looking for mp3s rem If we have an argument, it is assumed that it is the directory we're to search in rem The reason we don't dir/s/b *.mp3 is because the zip utility then saves the sub-directory rem and I assume that the user will not want the directory prefix to be saved along with the rem mp3/karaoke file if "%~1" == "" goto startRecurse set zipExe=%CD%\zip.exe set curDir=%CD% cd "%~1" for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir/b *.mp3') do call :savemp3 "%%i" cd "%curDir%" goto endBatch :savemp3 set basename=%~1 rem Ensure that we are passed an mp3 extension set extension=%basename:~-4% if not "%extension%" == ".mp3" goto badParam rem Truncate the ".mp3" extension set basename=%basename:~0,-4% if exist "%basename%.zip" del "%basename%.zip" rem Only for debugging rem echo %basename% "%zipExe%" -D "%basename%.zip" "%basename%.mp3" "%basename%.txt" goto endBatch :badParam echo Error: %~1 is not an mp3 file. goto endBatch :startRecurse call "%~0" "%CD%" for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir/ad/s/b') do call "%~0" "%%i" echo Done pause :endBatch4.) See the line: You need to replace the .txt with whatever extension the karaoke files are - I have no idea, I'm afraid.
Also, if you find the zip taking too long because it's trying to compress, add a -0 behind -D. For example, if the karaoke files have the extension .kar, and the zip is taking too long, change the line to:
If, for whatever reason, you want to delete all the generated zip files, then change the line to:
5.) Save the batch file, and run it. Should display "Done" and prompt for any key when complete.
Should work. I've given it a brief run through on my system, but don't guarantee it.
EDIT: Crud, I just assumed that the mp3 files are in the same folder as the karaoke files. This batch file only works if that's the case.
If that's not the case, then you'll have to give us more information on how the files are stored/folder layout.
Using specious folder names, I essentially have:
KARAOKE (1 big folder containing...) > Karaoke tracks 1, Karaoke tracks 2, etc. etc to Karaoke tracks 500, or whatever... not sure exactly how many folders there are. Each of the 'karate tracks 1', 'karate tracks 2', etc. folders possess the actual files. There are no files in the master directory (KARAOKE), only the hundreds of smaller folders containing the actual content.
KARAOKE
> Karaoke tracks 1
> > Music file 01.mp3
> > Music file 01.kar
> Karaoke tracks 2
> > Music file 02.mp3
> > Music file 02.kar
> Karaoke tracks 3
> > Music file 03.mp3
> > Music file 03.kar
then the batch file should just work, and put a zip file with the same name as the mp3/kar file in the same folder that they're in.
No worries! I always wanted to brush up on my batch file scripting anyway. Besides, I'm apparently building.. uh... social capital or something right now. =P
KARAOKE
>Karaoke tracks 1
>>Karaoke tracks 1.mp3
>>Karaoke tracks 1.kar
>>Karaoke tracks 2.mp3
>>Karaoke tracks 2.kar
>>Karaoke tracks 3.mp3
>>Karaoke tracks 3.kar
>Karaoke tracks 2
>>Karaoke tracks 4.mp3
>>Karaoke tracks 4.kar
>>Karaoke tracks 5.mp3
>>Karaoke tracks 5.kar
>>Karaoke tracks 6.mp3
>>Karaoke tracks 6.kar
etc.
Is that cool?
If you're worried, maybe you could copy a small subset (e.g. 5-10) of your files to a new folder (e.g. KARAOKE2) with the same folder setup and see if it works/gives you what you want.
Now, another small favor if I may impose...
At this rate, when I add new files (matching .mp3 and .kar files, that is) and execute the .bat again, it restarts the entire process. Are there any modifications that I could make to the code that would effectively only work on the new, un-already zipped tracks? This isn't a 'huge' deal, because I could just introduce new stuff to a separate folder, run the .bat, then move it into the original one... but this would certainly be cool if you could figure out a fix for this.
(either way you are God).
To do what you want, replace the line:
with
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