It's been a while, I know. I started college at Aiken Tech. I'm majoring in Electronic Engineering Technology. I bought an HP Pavilion g7 Notebook. It has a quad core AMD A8-4500M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, 1900 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processors. It's a good portable Windows platform that I needed for school.
My Nook tablet has been relegated to email, reading and music storage. Which brings me to the original purpose for posting this. MARK! YOUR NOOK TABLET WILL ONLY PLAY MP3S. Stop putting other music files on there. I ripped my entire CD collection and copied them to the tablet as WMA files. The worst thing was I have done this before. I had to delete them, convert WMA2MP3 and reinstall the files. That was only like 5 CDs. Then I remembered that I used a program called wma2mp3. This time I deleted the files and then converted the original WMAs and reinstalled them. At least that is what I thought I had done. I actually converted all 144 songs and placed them along side the WMA files in my laptop's Music folder. Now comes the fun part. How to move only the MP3 files along with the directory (folder) structure so that the tablet will see all the albums, artists, etc. with the MP3 files in order. Not as easy as it sounds. I Googled the question and everyone suggested .bat programs to do this. I knew there had to be a simple solution. One poster suggested Audacity to convert and install. That will work one album at a time. While looking over the .bat file programs I found this little nugget buried in one of the lines of code. "c:\users\mark\MP3\>DEL /s *.wma" That was my version of it anyway. I copied the contents of my music folder to a new folder I named MP3. Now all I had to do was strip out the WMA files and move the contents of MP3 to my SD card for the nook. I needed to delete 144 WMA files, each with a different name in dozens of subdirectories under MP3. The " /s" command makes the delete command search all those music folders. The "*" is a wildcard symbol that means "any file with a .wma extension". It worked fine.
I thought I might eventually boot LINUX UBUNTU on my laptop and test it for the laptop team. Full time college has not afforded me the time. I had a week break for Independence Day and all I wanted to do is play my guitar. I have an Epiphone SG Special. It's lighter than the Gibson which has a Mahogany body instead of Maple. It's about $700 dollars lighter on the wallet as well. I have a Peavey Rage TransTube practice amp (15W). I play along with Cds or Satellite music channels. I have been playing on and off since I was about 12. I'm not a dedicated daily player.
