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supersaki   03-31-2004 at 11:41:09 PM

Over the past few years I had been backing up my Cds onto my computer using Windows Media Player. I got an iPod last christmas, but of course, it doesn't accept WMA files. Is there a good software program that will convert my WMAs to MP3 (or any other format that the iPod will accept), while keeping the information (song, artist, album, etc..) intact? I have looked on download.com and a few other places for a program to do this, but it looks like I would have to do it one file at a time, which would take abot as long or longer than just ripping the cds again.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

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alltaken   04-02-2004 at 12:31:20 PM
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ok ths is the deal

WMA's are not the best idea, they are copy write protected so they should not work on anything but your single computer.

also any time you copy a "lossy" format to another "lossy" format then you will get a very bad second copy.

kind of like a printer can print the same thing perfectly millions of times. if you get a printed version and photo copy it, then that one etc... it will get worse untill its unreadable.

the best thing for you to do is to re-rip all of your cd's to computer as MP3 files (which you want for Ipod)

or to re-rip to a lossless format such as FLAC (lossless formats will keep them at 100% but take up about 5x the size of an MP3, (which is about 60% of the size of a cd in the end)

this way you can re-convert the music to any format you like in the future. e.g. FLAC-to-MP3(128Kbps) or FLAC-to-MP3(320Kbps) or FLAC-to-Ogg...... and still be getting the best quality without the loss from transcoding.

feel free to ask me any more questions, but i do suggest re-ripping.

p.s. i have about 80Cds that take up about 30 Gb in FLAC format (not including double cd's in the 80 count).


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BunnyStroker   04-03-2004 at 04:01:20 AM
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I agree with first poster. It will take a while, but re-rip. Don't go from one lossy to another lossy.

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