Make a play list and see what happens?
----- Original Message -----
From: Kathy and Tom
To: PC audio discussion list.
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive
Hi Kevin. I have a dvd player. It's a Tosheba, 5 cd changer. It plays
cds, dvds, mp3s, and wma files. A friend tried to help me use the menus to
try and play an mp3 disk. The dvd player played the first 9 mp3 tracks.
Then it kept going back to the first track. I called the store where I
purchased it. They told me unless I had it connected to a tv, I wouldn't be
able to use the menus. I have a little mp3 walkman. It plays all the
tracks just fine. What do you think? Is this doable? Is there a way to
get to the next mp3 folder? Thanks so much for yours or anyone else's
input. Have a good one.
Kathy
Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these
things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6 33, KJV.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive
> Hi Kevin! With the DVD player I have now, I can play the WMA files I have
> on some disks, where I wasn't able to on my previous DVD player! I guess
> that more MP3 CD players are allowing for the WMA format!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:09 PM
> Subject: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive
>
>
>> Hi Scott.
>>
>> I'm using windows media player to archive my CD collection using WMA
>> lossless as my choice of format.
>>
>> As it says, it's a lossless format and so quality is guaranteed.
>> Therefore,
>> if you want to burn to CD in the future and play on a real hi-fi system,
>> you're going to get the full frequency range. This is where I've noticed
>> the compression in MP3 files that otherwise sound great when played on a
>> computer or portable device.
>>
>> There are other lossless formats but I think those have disadvantages.
>> Flak
>> and OG aren't really supported out there in mainstream players very often
>> whereas WMA is and I don't think Microsoft are going to go away too
>> quickly
>> so the format will be around for a considerable number of years. WAV is
>> uncompressed and so is larger than WMA files but even more of a
>> disadvantage
>> is that you don't have any ID3 tags in WAV files.
>>
>> A typical WMA lossless track of about 5 mins can be around the 30MB mark
>> but
>> memory is cheap.
>>
>> I convert my music down to 128kbps on the fly when loading up my portable
>> MP3 hard drive player so there's no problems in taking at least some of
>> my
>> collection with me when I travel. You could though create MP3 files from
>> the WMA files by using a program like Goldwave. Because you're
>> converting
>> from a lossless format, you are able to go ahead and create files in
>> other
>> formats from your WMA masters without losing quality due to mixing and
>> matching of formats. You will of course get quality degradation by
>> reducing
>> the bit rates.
>>
>> So, just to be clear, I rip to WMA lossless and keep those files as my
>> archive masters. I store them on an external hard drive and don't touch
>> these again. If I want to shrink the music to take away from the
>> computer,
>> I use Goldwave to create new smaller MP3 files or use the morph function
>> that comes with my notmad explorer software to shrink the music on the
>> fly
>> as I load my Creative jukebox.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Kevin
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Scott Blanks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]>;
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>> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:46 AM
>> Subject: transferring music collection to hard drive
>>
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I have a number of cd's that I am considering copying to my hard drive;
>> I've
>>> had those discs for many years and I am concerned about deterioration
>> and/or
>>> scratching, etc. However, I don't know what file format I should convert
>> the
>>> tracks into. I have free versions of Real Player and Winamp, and of
>> course,
>>> Windows Media. With those, I know I can choose between mp3, WMA, and
>>> possibly another format using the newest version of Winamp. What I would
>>> like to accomplish is converting the tracks into a high quality file
>>> that
>>> does not take up too much space.
>>>
>>> For those of you who have converted a large number of discs into audio
>>> files, what format did you choose and why? Should I shell out money for
>>> a
>>> more powerful program than the ones I've already mentioned?
>>>
>>> Very curious,
>>> Scott
>>>
>>>
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