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Brandon,

Are you using the "Open Finder Items" action to open the files using  
the audio converter app?  I could be wrong, but I believe this will  
simulate the drag-and-drop function to the converter app.

-Ben

On May 14, 2009, at 12:50 PM, Brandon Hicks wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think my problem is the application I'm trying to do my audio  
> conversions.
>
> What I want to happen is this:
> I paste an audiobook in a folder.
> The mac waits for it to be pasted, whether from a CD, external drive
> or network share.
> Once the file is complete, it launches an audio encoder to convert the
> bitrate to either something I set in a command line parameter or
> something I set every time the conversion happens.
> It then deletes the original file, and pastes the converted file in
> some other folder for moving to my phone, or wherever I want to put
> it.
>
> Right now, my workflow waits for the file to be complete, then it does
> open the application, Drop A Few My Way. But every time this
> application opens, it says "This is a droplet. Drop audio files on
> this droplet's icon to convert them." And there's an OK button. I've
> tried just setting this application as a folder action, and I've tried
> chaining it in a workflow after the wait for files to finish action I
> found online. Either way, I get that same dialog.
>
> I think I'm going to have to find some other way of converting my
> audio because this droplet just won't work.


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