How do I change the ffmpeg utilities to save to a different folder?
In order to function properly, the ffmpeg utility assumes that you have a ‘My Documents’ folder and it is located in a standard place1. In some network or security environments this is not the case. Fear not, it is easy to modify the utilites once they are installed so that your podcasts are saved to a directory you select. Assuming that you were able to install somewhere2, look in the ffmpeg directory. There is a file there called wma2mp3.cmd. This is the file that powers the drag and drop icon on the desktop. To get it to work with other directories, just edit the path information in the 2 lines to point somewhere else. For example, changing ‘%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\My Documents\classcaster’ to ‘C:\classcaster’ will save your podcasts in the classcaster folder on the C drive. Just don’t change anything after the last ‘\’ since that bit actually handles the automatic naming of the files. You will need to create the necessary folders by hand for this to work. On
