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Software => Computer software => Topic started by: Zylstra on April 05, 2008, 07:52:38 PM
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Goeden Dag,
(good day)
I am wondering if there is any mass media conversation software for music files that could change every .wma 192KBPS file in my library to .mp3 192KBPS.
Why do I want to do this?
.MP3 is a open source format that seems to work just about everywhere now... I never much liked having to wait for Media Player to convert files for my phone/mp3 player.
I have Windows Vista, plenty of varying disk space, and can handle something resource intensive.
I need something that can convert not only file formats, but, also the bitrates, and also handle filters that would possibly exclude certain files.
I searched Google, but, there were too many adware ridden results.
Anyone know of anything?
Thanks,
Zylstra
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http://www.mediamonkey.com/
I use it myself to play and manage my music, it can even sync music to my Creative Zen so I can do all my music related tasks in this app.
But you may need the paid version if you want to convert a large number of songs, but IMO it is worth it.
.MP3 is a open source format that seems to work just about everywhere now...
I get what you're saying here, but just so you know, MP3 is not open source. It is in fact a proprietary and patented format and commercial MP3 players have to pay a licensing fee to use it.
OGG is a true open source format, but it is a lot harder to find portable music players that supports it.
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Deerpark how do you like the Zen ? ?
I was thinking of grabbing one.
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I've got the (by now slightly old) Zen Micro and I just love it.
Sound quality is excellent as it usually is on Creative products. Just do you self a favor and buy a quality pair of earphones, the included ones are not great. But that seems to be a common problem with MP3 players.
Can't really think of anything negative to say about it...
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Thanks, Deerpark
The actual main reason I wanted a program like this was because my brother gave a bunch of music to my sister, who gave that same music to me, that had VBR (Variable Bit Rate) formats for encoding... anyways, this resulted in a bunch of media files with 800+KBPS (a few 1MBPS as well) bitrate files... (and even more that were in the 500-700 range)
This is a bit too big for me, and I will soon be running out of disk space.
Once again, thanks, Deerpark.
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You're welcome Zylstra, I hope MM will suit you.
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You're welcome Zylstra, I hope MM will suit you.
So far it is :)
I am leaving everything at the VBR format, but, also changing it to MP3. (I decreased the VBR levels though, it should be ~256KBPS now)
I am only converting things over 367KBPS, (I am great at manipulating programs like that,) so, all should go well. (Its sure taking a while though)
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Media Monkey, formerly DB-songs is a good organizer which I have used, and perhaps dbpoweramp (http://www.dbpoweramp.com/) which has been around a while...
Here's a real interesting article - behind the mask (http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may00/articles/mp3.htm) about the theory of MP3, and some tips to improve your mp3's...
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Great stuff Deerpark and thanx !
Zen 4G on sale today only 75 bucks...goin for it !
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Sorry for my latefulness (note: "latefulness" is not a real word)...
It all worked out alright. Thanks, everyone