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DiscWriter feature?

Hey,

First of sorry if this has been asked before I tried doing a little search but came up empty handed!

Can the discwriter be setup to delete the source on completion of a conversion?

If not this would be a useful feature!

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Neksus

DiscWriter feature?

Reply #1 –
I think that it has been requested before. I too would like keep my music directories clean.

DiscWriter feature?

Reply #2 –
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Can the discwriter be setup to delete the source on completion of a conversion?

One for lossless formats only methinks; too much chance of data loss otherwise.

I do actually like the idea of in-place lossless conversion; be handy to change compression levels in your format of choice (say, leaving it running over your entire FLAC collection overnight recompressing with -8, or changing to a more sensible OptimFROG setting).

DiscWriter feature?

Reply #3 –
I don't think foobar diskwriter will do this, but some encoders will. Then you just add that to cli encoders parameters. E.g. mppenc.exe "--deleteinput" and flac.exe "--delete-input-file".
Or maybe you could set up something like M.A.R.E.O. to pass encoder parameters  to encoder and then delete inputfile after convertion from cli encoders command line?
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