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Note: This content is only relevant to versions of foobar2000 older than 1.1. Newer versions no longer have a Converter preferences page.

The Converter preferences page contains background settings for foobar2000's converter component (foo_converter.dll). This preferences page was updated in version 0.9.6, when the converter was improved to be able to use presets. Many of the settings which were previously on this page are now part of the Converter dialog.

Output formats

The "Output formats" section allows you to to set the individual encoder formats that you can select from the Converter dialog's Output Formats dropdown menu.

Numbers shown in the "Avg. Bitrate" column are arbitrary; with most of presets they're based on typical bitrates produced by this preset on stereo / 44100Hz sample rate material. With custom presets, these numbers are user-configurable.

Presets corresponding to natively supported formats - currently WAV, AIFF and AU/SND - are permanent; they can't be configured, added or removed

The three buttons along the right side do exactly as they would appear to do. The Edit and Remove buttons are ghosted out until an output format is selected from the list.

Command-line encoder folders

This is where you enter the paths to the folders that contain your encoders. If you have multiple encoders in the same folder, you only need to add the path once.

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-[[Category:foobar2000 Preferences|Converter]]
+{{fb2k prefs|Foobar2000-Preferences-converter.png|Converter}}
-= Preferences: Converter =
+{{panel|'''Note:''' This content is only relevant to versions of foobar2000 older than 1.1. Newer versions no longer have a Converter preferences page.|color=yellow}}
-[[Image:Foobar2000-Preferences-converter.png]]
+The '''Converter''' preferences page contains background settings for foobar2000's converter component (foo_converter.dll). This preferences page was updated in version 0.9.6, when the converter was improved to be able to use presets. Many of the settings which were previously on this page are now part of the [[Foobar2000:Converter|Converter dialog]].
-== Output File Names ==
+==Output formats==
+The "Output formats" section allows you to to set the individual encoder formats that you can select from the [[Foobar2000:Converter (before 1.1)|Converter dialog]]'s Output Formats dropdown menu.
-These settings control names of files produced by the Converter component.
-* Single tracks : names of files produced by the "Convert To..." and "Convert to Same Folder" commands.
-* Album images : names of files produced by the "Convert to Album Images with Cuesheets or Chapters" command.
-* Previews : names of files produced by the "Generate Previews" command.
-When encoding full album images or generating previews, relevant file name settings also control how source tracks are grouped into albums; for an example, when converting an inconsistently tagged various artists album, you can remove the "%album artist%" part to encode the offending album into a single file.
-You can use slash characters in file name patterns to automatically create folder structure. Note that sub-folders will be created only when writing more than one file (e.g. multiple source tracks / multiple source albums selected) - after getting a dialog asking for the output folder; when creating only one file, no sub-folders are created and you get a standard "Save as" dialog to choose the location of the output file.
-== Encoding Presets ==
-A list of currently configured output format presets.
 Numbers shown in the "Avg. Bitrate" column are arbitrary; with most of presets they're based on typical bitrates produced by this preset on stereo / 44100Hz sample rate material. With [[foobar2000:preferences:converter:custom presets|custom presets]], these numbers are user-configurable.
-Presets corresponding to natively supported formats - currently [[WAV]], [[AIFF]] and [[AU|AU/SND]] - are permanent; they can't be configured, added or removed.
+Presets corresponding to natively supported formats - currently [[WAV]], [[AIFF]] and [[AU|AU/SND]] - are permanent; they can't be configured, added or removed
-== Output Bit Depth ==
-Relevant when encoding to [[lossless]] formats only - [[lossy]] formats technically do not have any bit depth.
-With these settings, you can control bit depth of created [[lossless]] files (such as [[WAV]], [[AIFF]], [[AU|AU/SND]], [[FLAC]] and [[WavPack]]).
+The three buttons along the right side do exactly as they would appear to do. The ''Edit'' and ''Remove'' buttons are ghosted out until an output format is selected from the list.
-The preferred bit depth setting is used to choose output bit depth when bit depth of the source file is unclear, for an example when the source file is in one of lossy formats. If you uncheck the "Keep lossless sources at original bit depth" option, preferred bit depth will also override source bit depth when converting between different lossless formats.
+==Command-line encoder folders==
+This is where you enter the paths to the folders that contain your encoders. If you have multiple encoders in the same folder, you only need to add the path once.
-= See Also =
+== See also ==
-[[Foobar2000:Converter|Converter component]]
+* [[Foobar2000:Converter|Converter (foo_converter)]]