diff --git a/llmfoundry/command_utils/data_prep/convert_delta_to_mds.py b/llmfoundry/command_utils/data_prep/convert_delta_to_mds.py
index 9db204e71a..3acdecfec0 100644
--- a/llmfoundry/command_utils/data_prep/convert_delta_to_mds.py
+++ b/llmfoundry/command_utils/data_prep/convert_delta_to_mds.py
@@ -1,14 +1,10 @@
 # Copyright 2024 MosaicML LLM Foundry authors
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-import json
 import logging
 import os
 import tempfile
-from typing import Callable, Optional
-
-import numpy as np
-from streaming import MDSWriter
+from typing import Optional
 
 from llmfoundry.command_utils.data_prep.convert_delta_to_json import (
     _check_imports,
@@ -17,59 +13,12 @@
     get_columns_info,
     validate_and_get_cluster_info,
 )
+from llmfoundry.command_utils.data_prep.convert_finetuning_dataset import \
+    convert_finetuning_dataset_from_args
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-def get_conversion_config(
-    columns: list[str],
-    provided_dtypes: Optional[dict],
-) -> tuple[dict, Callable]:
-    """If no dtypes is provided, attempts to infer config based on column names.
-
-    Args:
-        columns (List[str]): The list of column names.
-        provided_dtypes (Optional[Dict]): The provided dtypes.
-    """
-    if provided_dtypes is not None:
-        convert_x = lambda x: {
-            k: np.array(v, dtype=provided_dtypes.get(k)) for k, v in x.items()
-        }
-        return provided_dtypes, convert_x
-
-    if len(columns) != 1:
-        raise ValueError(
-            'Unable to infer dtypes from columns and no dtypes provided.',
-        )
-
-    if 'turns' in columns[0]:
-        logging.info('Identified IFT/CHAT data')
-        dtypes = {
-            'input_ids': 'ndarray',
-            'attention_mask': 'ndarray',
-            'labels': 'ndarray',
-        }
-        convert_x = lambda x: (
-            ValueError('More than one turn found') if len(x['turns']) > 1 else {
-                'input_ids': np.array(x['turns'][0]['input_ids']),
-                'attention_mask': np.array(x['turns'][0]['attention_mask']),
-                'labels': np.array(x['turns'][0]['labels']),
-            }
-        )
-    elif 'concat_tokens' in columns[0]:
-        logging.info('Identified CPT data')
-        dtypes = {
-            'tokens': 'ndarray',
-        }
-        convert_x = lambda x: {'tokens': np.array(x['concat_tokens'])}
-    else:
-        raise ValueError(
-            'Unable to infer dtypes from columns and no dtypes provided.',
-        )
-
-    return dtypes, convert_x
-
-
 def convert_delta_to_mds_from_args(
     delta_table_name: str,
     mds_output_folder: str,
@@ -115,12 +64,6 @@ def convert_delta_to_mds_from_args(
     )
     logger.info(f'Columns: {columns}')
 
-    dtypes, convert_x = get_conversion_config(columns, dtypes)
-
-    compression = 'zstd:7'
-    hashes = ['sha1']
-    limit = '10mb'
-
     logging.info(f'Fetching data from Delta Table {delta_table_name}...')
 
     with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as json_out_folder:
@@ -142,19 +85,24 @@ def convert_delta_to_mds_from_args(
         except Exception as e:
             logger.error(f'Error fetching data from Delta Table: {e}')
             raise e
-        with MDSWriter(
-            out=mds_output_folder,
-            columns=dtypes,
-            compression=compression,
-            hashes=hashes,
-            size_limit=limit,
-        ) as out:
-            try:
-                with open(json_full_filepath, 'r') as f:
-                    for line in f:
-                        out.write(convert_x(json.loads(line)))
-            except FileNotFoundError as e:
-                logger.error(f'JSON output file not found: {e}')
-                raise e
 
-    logging.info(f'Wrote to MDS at {mds_output_folder}')
+        convert_finetuning_dataset_from_args(
+            dataset='json',
+            data_subset=None,
+            splits=[''],
+            preprocessor=None,
+            data_files=[json_full_filepath],
+            skip_preprocessing=True,
+            out_root=mds_output_folder,
+            local=None,
+            compression='zstd:7',
+            num_workers=processes,
+            tokenizer=None,
+            tokenizer_kwargs=None,
+            max_seq_len=-1,
+            target_prompts='',
+            target_responses='',
+            encoder_decoder=False,
+        )
+
+        logging.info(f'Wrote to MDS at {mds_output_folder}')