Hey Owen- I was on this same learning curve just a few weeks ago. I found it best to copy all the files from the original location and paste them into a folder on the desktop. For simplicity, I labeled the folder "musicimport". I too had several sub folders which I wanted to import into a respective Group in RD. That being said, I copied the files out of each sub folder, one folder at a time so that it was only the files within the musicimport folder on the desktop...no sub folders.
Once I had the files in place, I personally used this command in the terminal: RDImport --verbose MUSIC /home/rd/Desktop/musicimport/*.mp3 Obviously you'll want to substitute the MUSIC group with whatever group you'd like the files imported to. Additionally, if the files you're importing are WAV , you'll want to change the "*.mp3" to "*.wav". Doing it this way allows you to keep your files in their original location which would double as a back up. Hope this helps. --brandon sossamon Hello, I'm still on a steep learning curve setting up and getting to know Rivendell. I'm trying to import and convert to wav mp3 files from a removable drive via usb. The drive is called 'Elements' the main music folder is called 'MUSIC'. Within the 'MUSIC' folder are many sub folders. I've tried to import in terminal following these instructions http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/Using_rdimport_to_import_mp3_files I get a reply. "Can't open Elements, skipped. Can't open MUSIC skipped. Can't open (name of sub folder). skipped. Can't open *.mp3. I thought I'd place the files as cuts in carts that represented the folder it came from on the removable drive 'Elements'. I would appreciate it if somebody could tell me the string of instructions I need to import files from Elements/MUSIC/subfoldername. Also. As I don't want the files on the removable drive deleted I need to be sure. Amongst the text that 'terminal' presents it does say that the delete function is off, so I guess that the original files are safe. Perhaps I need to copy the files from the removable drive onto the main hard drive and import from there. Many thanks, Owen Dawe.
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