Deleting a certain file type from all subfolders

[Ste]

I have extracted the audio from a large number of CD’s as FLAC (lossless) audio files. I also converted them to MP3 format to enable them to be played in my car. However being both nieve and useless I have put both formats into the same folders, Each Album has its own folder. So now I have lots of folders containing FLAC and MP3 files. I know need to convert the FLAC files to apple lossless format to enable them to be imported to iTunes. How can I delete the MP3 format files from all of the folders in one go. It will take a hours to visit each folder and delete them indiviidually.
Basically I have one folder with 64 subfolders (albums) that have two file types in each of them, how do i delete one file type from every folder…Thanks for any assistance

[veeg]

Hello

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[Bruce]

start an elevated command prompt (doesn’t actually need to be elevated, just force of habit)
type;
cd c:\users\me\albums (adjust accordingly)
del *.mp3 /s
NOTE: from the directory you CD to, the DEL command will delete all MP3 files in all sub-directories of that parent folder and down.

[Ste]

c:\ being the drive the files are stored on…what should i be typing in the users and me section, apologies for my lack of knowledge…

[Ste]

running a cmd I can see that the c:\ user and me “bits” are already in the prompt, however the music is stored on my d: drive, where do I insert that info

[Ste]

C:\Users\sTE>D:\Users\sTE\BON JOVI CD Singles FLAC\del *.mp3\s
The system cannot find the path specified.

This is what I am typing, sorry to be a pain,

[Bruce]

OK, now we know the exact path of where your music lives, the command would be this;
(copy and paste if you like, tyhere are spaces in the command that are important)
d:
cd users/ste/bon jovi cd singles flac
del *.mp3 /s

[phillpower2]

Any update Ste?

[phillpower2]

Any update for us Ste? If unreplied to within 48hrs this thread will be closed.