Batch Conversion From WAV to MP3

I'm a newb and was gifted a hard drive with 400+ CDs as WAV files, recorded with Windows Media Player 7.

I want them all on my phone as mp3s (while maintaining the originals) and obviously want to batch convert as simply as possible.

The path is E: Data > Music > Phil > then a folder for every artist > inside those, folders for every disc by that artist. Questions:

Can you simply feed the "converter" the “Music” folder? The “Phil” folder?

Does the converter extract the individual discs and their files, making this a single-step process? If not, do I have to feed every disc folder into the converter?

Should the conversion take place on the PC or the phone? If it’s the phone, what’s a good app for Android that does this and stores them in a decent library?

Probably sounds like a lot of "How the heck does this actually work?"  🫤  Thanks for your patience.

10 minutes ago, Leonard Cohens Ghost said:

I'm a newb and was gifted a hard drive with 400+ CDs as WAV files, recorded with Windows Media Player 7.

I want them all on my phone as mp3s (while maintaining the originals) and obviously want to batch convert as simply as possible.

The path is E: Data > Music > Phil > then a folder for every artist > inside those, folders for every disc by that artist. Questions:

Can you simply feed the "converter" the “Music” folder? The “Phil” folder?

Does the converter extract the individual discs and their files, making this a single-step process? If not, do I have to feed every disc folder into the converter?

Should the conversion take place on the PC or the phone? If it’s the phone, what’s a good app for Android that does this and stores them in a decent library?

Probably sounds like a lot of "How the heck does this actually work?"  🫤  Thanks for your patience.

DBPoweramp can look at the Phil folder and make MP3 for you. 

+1 for DbPoweramp.

Slightly off your original question, but while you’re at it I would consider batch converting all those .wav files to a lossless format for archiving as well. You could keep them as .wav, but IMO the “source files” would be more usable as FLAC, AIFF or ALAC depending on your computer system…

ie:

1) keep your original .wav hard disk in a cupboard as archive/ backup

2) use the FLAC,AIFF,ALAC version as a master lossless version

3) use the derived MP3 lossy version on your phone

just a suggestion as I don’t particularly find .wav very usable.