| Author | Message | ||
     Sgthigg |
I just bought a MP3 player it say you can put about 300 plus songs on it. However I can only fit 120 or so on it. I know I probaly need to compress the songs a little. But how do I do this? I have tons of music down loaded to my computer. Is there a simple way to compress them all so they can fit to my mp3 player. If so how do I do it? Thanks, | ||
| Barker |
What they claim is an atmost average. 300 short songs maybe. Example, you can not put 300 copies of "Freebird" on there because the songs are longer than most. Yes you can compress your songs. You can lower your bit rate/sample rate, but that lowers your quality. If your player can handle it, you can also play around with the file types some are better than others. wma (sux) mp3, wav, aiff, ogg, aac (awesome) What kinda of mp3 player do you have? | ||
| Sgthigg |
rca lyra 512 Meg. I know I can compress the songs a little...But How do I do it??? ? | ||
| Iamike |
My 1 gig iRiver holds about 230 songs at the MP3 format so it looks like yours is about right. If you look at the Rip settings you can decrease the quality some more and on a bike with earphones your wouldn't notice any difference. I've never tried it to see what it would do for the storage since I have about run out of my own music to copy. I'm too cheap to buy it online. | ||
| U4euh |
Slight hijack,but along the same lines. Anybody know how to convert files from WMA format to MP3? My video editor only takes MP3, but all my music is in WMA format. I got my dauhter an 128mg player and it holds about 50-60 songs, sounds about avg for them. | ||
| Tcskeptic |
Often manufacturers will quote player capacity as if songs were all 3 minutes long and ripped at 64kbps using WMA (Windows Media Audio format). In real life most of us rip (or download to "sample") MP3s at at least 128kbps , and often much higher. A 3 minute song ripped like this will take up much more space than one at the idealized capacity standards. Personally, I can't stand MP3s ripped below 128 kbps and can notice them even on the firebolt. (Especially in the cymbals, they get all muddy and shimmery). I know that WMA files are supposed to sound better at lower bit rates but do not have enough experience with them to comment. If you want to fit more of your songs on the player you can either re-rip your CDs at a lower bit rate setting or you can use a tool like DBPowerAMP Music Converter to "transcode" your existing MP3s into lower bitrate MP3s or WMAs. Keep in mind though that a transcoded low bit rate file will have even worse sound quality than a directly encoded low bit rate file. U4euh -- The same software should work for you. (Message edited by tcskeptic on September 09, 2006) | ||
| Iamike |
U4- With Windows Media Player look at the rip settings tab. There is the option as to which format you want to use and the rate (see skeptic's post). The problem I had with the iRiver was that unless I purchased the digital rights W.M.P. wouldn't let me put it on the device. I get around it by ripping the music with W.M.P. to the MP3 format then using Jukebox to send it to my device. If you want to put the MP3s on another cd you can do that too. But like skeptic says, if you have much of a sound system you may notice a loss of quality. Even on my ST1300 there is enough wind noise that I don't worry about the quality much. | ||
| Easy_rider |
I second TK on the bit rate. Anything lower than 128 kbps won't do. I saw a listing once that rated 128 kbps is close to FM quality and 192 is about cd quality. At 128 most of my songs seem to be about 3.5 Mb. At 192 it's about 5Mb. I generally divide the player size by 5 to decide for myself how many songs it will hold. | ||
| Angelwild327 |
you are unlikely to get 300 songs on a 512 player... 120 is about right... | ||
| Sgthigg |
Thanks | ||
| U4euh |
Iamike-is that using Mediaplayer10? I tried a cd to see, and on the rip tab has nothing for settings. Any hidden tricks? I am also downloading the DP as I type | ||
| Lost_in_ohio |
wma is a more compact format than mp3. Closed to half size from what I can tell. | ||
| Lost_in_ohio |
U4......right beside where it says guide in the list of tables right mouse click..you should get a drop then go under tools and then options. under options there is a rip option tab.... You can change sampling rate and such from there. | ||
| Bomber |
300 copies of "Freebird" this sounds like it would be against the Geneva Convention! | ||
| U4euh |
DB powerAmp is the ticket,easier and faster the windows. Thanks for the link! Jim | ||
| Captpete |
 No hidden costs. (299 ta go, Bomber) | ||
| Captpete |
There's a comparison demo on the Creative site that plays a little cut in each of the three formats, wav, mp3, & wmv. As they suggest, I can't tell the difference. But then again, I have a brother-in-law who insists that all digital music is trash, and he can hear the difference. He's still listening to his jazz records played through multiple tube-type mono amps. Analog Man! I think he's full of crap, but who knows? There is no way of my hearing what I can't hear. But I bet if you snuck up behind him and said MP3 real quick he'd have a stroke. | ||
| Easy_rider |
still listening to his jazz records I won't deny there's a difference, but not necessarily better. Wonder if Dizzy would take a snap, crackle, and pop machine to his concerts so he could make it sound like what you get at home? |
