I’m a big fan of music and I manage my 50001 songs using iTunes. iTunes has it’s share of problems2, but overall it’s a pretty good media management application – especially if you’ve bought into the Apple ecosystem (which I have).
My problem is that most of my files are in the m4a format. That’s fine for my personal use, but it’s a problem when I want to share a file with someone else (who may not be part of the Apple ecosystem). iTunes allows you to convert a music file into mp3 format, but you have to remember to remove the duplicate file3. Again, this really isn’t a problem… but there’s got to be a better way to do batch conversions of files.
This became a bigger issue when I started re-publishing old posts to my blog. Many of those post have links to since-expired media files – which means I need to replace the links to valid files. I’m using the “WP Offload S3” plugin – which uploads my media to an S3 bucket. I’m also using the “zbPlayer” plugin to make my files available to play within the post. Problem is:zbPlayer only works with mp3 files4.