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.wma support for X5?

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saratoga:

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--- Quote from: Suicide_Guy on August 29, 2006, 01:25:27 AM ---I hate having some of my songs in .wma format

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Well, that's understandable.  ;)

You could always re-rip those songs to another format.

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Haha yeah I could. What format would you guys recommend? I've read time and time again about how bad .mp3, yet it is the standard. I don't want to use FLAC because it takes up so much room. Maybe OGG?

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Mp3 is a great format.  Its generally on par with Ogg at reasonable bitrates, and better then WMA.  It just really sucks at low bitrates (

Suicide_Guy:
Ok, I've just heard some really bad things about .mp3

It could just be bias, who knows. Thanks for the help. :)

Yotto:
It is bias, but you may be one of those who is biased :D

Try this.  Encode a song in wma, ogg, flac, and mp3, at a decent bitrate (say 128 or higher, or variable with no cap if that's an option).  Then, put all those songs in winamp or whatever player you use on your comptuer, and have someone else order your playlist.  Play each song, and write down which one is best, which one is worst, or if you can't tell.

Use the format you like best.  If you can't tell (they all sound the same), take the one that makes the smallest file (that isn't wma :D )

lachlan:
I have a few albums I ripped in .wma (either 192 or 128k) and have given away or sold since. If I convert them accross to .mp3 will there be much quality loss? I have heard converting one lossy format to another isnt a good idea?

Yotto:
It's not, but like most things, if you only do it once it won't hurt ya :D

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