BR files on my PC

[VITZ]

I sold my BR900 but kept the BR files on my PC and want to make these files useful. I have noodled with BR Explorer but can't get the WAV button to light up. I am using Windows 7. Is there something I'm not getting? Thanks 

[Oldrottenhead]

i back my files up to my pc from my micro br. i transfer everything on the sd card to a folder and date it that date. if i need to get to the wavs. i transfer the contents of the folder back to an empty sd card. there are two folders MP3 and ROLAND. i transfer these to folders to the sd card. then use the br wav editor to go through the individual songs and find and extract the wavs i want to my pc. i am sure someone can explain this better.

[IanR]

To use BR files without a BR you must use the BR Wave Converter software to convert them to WAV files. 

ORH, can you convert BR files that have already been transferred from a BR to computer?  Or, do they have be on a BR to do the conversion?  I've only ever converted BR files to WAV files while the BR files are on the BR.

[Oldrottenhead]

i have not succesfully done this on my pc, but i have with sd cards and cdr's, but the trick is to transfer only the MP3 and ROLAND folders, that way the br wav convertor will recognise it as br folders. i think when it is on a hard drive, the wav convertor cant disatinguish between all the different folders on your hard drive.

[IanR]

I get it.  So you transfer the BR folder back to an sd card and the BR wave converter thinks that its talking to a BR.  That's very clever.

So, VITZ, that should work.

[Oldrottenhead]

i am sure if you transfered just those folders to a usb stick with nothing else on it apart from those two folders the wav software would recognise that too.

[Oldrottenhead]

the main problem tho is if there are a lot of songs in the ROLAND folder and then trying to find the song you want.

[VITZ]

Thank you legends and seniors. Now grasshopper will try the SD card method. Note I am talking about bro files in proprietary file format. They are not mp3's. Will follow up later. Thank you muchly

[Oldrottenhead]

i keep the mp3 folder as i helps remind me which songs are in the bro files lol. you could probably get away with just transferring the roland folder to your sd card. but am not 100% sure on that.

[64Guitars]

I sold my BR900 but kept the BR files on my PC and want to make these files useful. I have noodled with BR Explorer but can't get the WAV button to light up. I am using Windows 7. Is there something I'm not getting?

The WAV button in BR Explorer will be disabled if you haven't specified the correct path to the BR Wave Converter program in preferences. See the last paragraph under "Initial Settings" on the following page:

https://songcrafters.org/64guitars/BR/BRX/BRX_Help.html#InitialSettings

Once you've installed BR Wave Converter and entered the path to BRWC.EXE in BR Explorer's Preferences, you can click the WAV button to convert tracks from your backups into WAV files. You don't need to move your backups to an SD card as suggested. BR Explorer can convert them directly from where they reside on your hard drive.