tamanaco Wrote: > I looked and searched (as much as I could) in the Hydrogenaudio forum > and the foobar forum for specific instructions on converting lossless > Flac to loosy VBR WMA, but I could not find specific instructions. > > There's gotta be a better way to do this. Too many forums... too many > posts... too many folks expecting everyone to be an expert. Folks in > the Hydrogenaudio forum are not too friendly to those that are > searching for answers related to wma. All I get is pressure to switch > to mp3 and use Lame. Maybe this is good advise for some, but is not > what I want to do.
Well, here's yet another approach (well, under Windows): I use MediaMonkey to convert FLAC to WMA for my Zen. It's fairly easy to configure it so that it puts the WMA into a different directory structure (which can be wholly or partially based on tags) - I have it dump into a "Zen Food" directory and then by artist/album folders underneath. I configured this once, and afterwards it's just a matter of selecting the directories or files I want and choosing Convert (which again I've configured to default to WMA at my chosen bitrate - I'm fairly sure VBR is possible too). This isn't as one-click as ripping to both FLAC and WMA at the same time (I still use EAC to rip to FLAC in the first place, btw), but given that I don't always want to do the latter anyway, I don't mind. MM is GUI-based, and I don't think there's a command-line interface. MM can do some form of volume levelling if you want, but though I've used it occasionally (for music I'm likely to play in the car) I can't say I've really noticed a difference. Volume levelling can't make up for a poorly-mastered CD. Yes, I get lots of folk telling me to switch from WMA to mp3 all the time. But I can squeeze about 1/3 more music (of satisfactory sound quality to me) onto my player using WMA rather than mp3 (and before the *other* fundamentalists start their chant, no, my Zen *doesn't* do Ogg (does that make it an Oggnostic? :-)). But I no longer consider WMA a reasonable choice for my "WiFiHiFi" - I made a mistake in initially populating my SlimServer store from my Zen's WMA collection, and am only slowly replacing things with FLAC. (The *big* problem is that there's no ReplayGain support for WMA. OK, that and the fact that what sounded OK on the Zen in the car doesn't sound so OK in the living-room - though curiously, it rarely sounds so bad that it has me running back to EAC...) -- Brian -- Brian Ritchie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Ritchie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2319 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24987 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
