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lozanoa11 · 4 Weeks Ago

UGGG well this is a pain. Im gunna just rip to flac right now and manually convert to wma later.
BTW how does wma play with foobar?

chinesekiwi · 4 Weeks Ago

I personally don't see the point of using lossless for a portable setup tbh.
Better off converting to AAC as the Zune supports that too.
Foobar2000 plays WMA lossless no problems AFAIK.

Souness · 2 Weeks Ago

I have a Zune HD and all the music I get is in FLAC format. I have found dB Poweramp Music Converter to be the best converter, hands down. I personally use the Reference version which costs $36 for a key but it there is no free utility I have found that is even in the same ballpark as it.

I mainly use the Reference version because it has Multi-CPU support and can do batch conversions. If I have a folder with all my FLAC files that need to be transcoded, all I do is rightclick--> Batch Convert and after confirming the folder, this windows comes up:

These are the settings for the best WMA Pro that the Zune HD can handle. After selecting where I want to transcode to, it does everything automatically. With my sig rig I can transcode about 20 songs with 2-pass encoding in around a minute.

I can't stress enough how good this software is. I normally don't buy any software I find online but this is an absolute must if you need to convert anything music wise. It can also convert to and from all major music file formats.

I have also heard the argument that lossless audio is useless for portable media players but I don't feel like having multiple versions of the same files on my computer so WMA Pro is all I need.

Edit: Also, Foobar 2000 is my main audio player and works fine with WMA Pro. Here's a link to the software

lozanoa11 · 2 Weeks Ago

Thanks! ^ I am waiting for my headphones to get in and im gunna wait to see if i can hear the difference on my zune before converting everything b/c most things i tried were a pain.

I mostly use the zune with my car that has stock crap speakers so I may not even do it if its gunna cost me.

Unknownm · 1 Week Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by sexybastard

average FLAC size for a song is like 7-8MB. For WMA Lossless its like 40MB.

what... All my flac files are 40/50MB for each. I don't see how a flac song is 7-8MB.

WMA lossless 9.2 supports up to 96Khz & 5.1 / 24-bit (VBR Quality 100)

WMA 10 Professional supports up to 96Khz & 7.1 / 24-bit & VBR 768 kbps bitrate, but no 16-bit support only 24-bit & 2.0 / 5.1 Channels

Using dBpoweramp Music Converter to convert lossless to lossless will give you the same result.

Honestly I convert all my songs to wma 320kbps for my zune. Not sure if AAC is supported though

chinesekiwi · 1 Week Ago

AAC is supported by the Zune. I'd go 192 kbps AAC.

Unknownm · 1 Week Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by chinesekiwi

AAC is supported by the Zune. I'd go 192 kbps AAC.

Whatever works for the person. I personally would go 320Kbps aac

mrfajita · 1 Week Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by Souness

I have a Zune HD and all the music I get is in FLAC format. I have found dB Poweramp Music Converter to be the best converter, hands down. I personally use the Reference version which costs $36 for a key but it there is no free utility I have found that is even in the same ballpark as it.

I mainly use the Reference version because it has Multi-CPU support and can do batch conversions. If I have a folder with all my FLAC files that need to be transcoded, all I do is rightclick--> Batch Convert and after confirming the folder, this windows comes up:

These are the settings for the best WMA Pro that the Zune HD can handle. After selecting where I want to transcode to, it does everything automatically. With my sig rig I can transcode about 20 songs with 2-pass encoding in around a minute.

I can't stress enough how good this software is. I normally don't buy any software I find online but this is an absolute must if you need to convert anything music wise. It can also convert to and from all major music file formats.

I have also heard the argument that lossless audio is useless for portable media players but I don't feel like having multiple versions of the same files on my computer so WMA Pro is all I need.

Edit: Also, Foobar 2000 is my main audio player and works fine with WMA Pro. Here's a link to the software

This. I use DMC as well, and it is the best especially with the multi-cpu support

aaronman · 1 Week Ago

LAME mp3 V0 for life dawg.

Lossless is cool too.

chinesekiwi · 1 Week Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unknownm

Whatever works for the person. I personally would go 320Kbps aac

But that's overkill. It really is. 192 kbps AAC is better than 320kbps and VBR -V0 mp3 (both LAME encoded) scientifically.

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