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I understand why you want to downsample, I never said otherwise. But obviously the more tunes you want to fit in a 512mb MS the less the quality will be.

However, as you've already got most of your music collection in lossless WMA, and the W800 doesn't support Microsofts proprietary formats, you're going to have a doubling up of data anyway, just to get the tunes you want on the phone.

Unless there's an application that converts WMA > AAC/MP3, copies it to the phone, then immediately deletes the just converted file from your hard disk you'll always have both the original WMA and the converted AAC/MP3 file.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing though, because as you said, your PC storage is virtually unlimited. The downside to only keeping the WMA files is everytime you change the tracks in the phone, they have to be re-downsampled.

iTunes definately can downsample MP3's (at least on my Mac it can).

If you were using a Mac, you could easily set up a Smart Folder on your desktop, into which any dropped audio file as automatically re-sampled to whatever bitrate you wanted, copied to the phone, and then deleted.

Unfortunately, I've no idea whether this is possible on Windows.
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Posted: 2005-08-20 14:05:58
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Easy CD-DA Extractor should be able to do everything you are after, it will convert from and to practically any audio format at an bitrate, you can tell it how to structure its output directories so that it meets the same structure as the K750/W800 and loads more!

I suggest you guys take a look. It is incredibly customisable, unlike that Itunes crap.

http://www.poikosoft.com/

[ This Message was edited by: jcwacky on 2005-08-20 13:47 ]
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Posted: 2005-08-20 14:46:21
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JoolsG4 - I know that downsampling reduces the quality. I think my mother knows that downsampling reduces the quality. That's how mp3's work. If you are using mp3, you have to take a compromise on file size vs quality. That's the whole point.

It is NOT necessary to have duplicate files - there are applications that can transcode and resample on the fly. In fact, disc2phone does just that. Windows Media Player does just that. The only issue is that it the former doesn't do it from WMA files and the latter doesn't transcode to other than wma.

iTunes completely sucks goats in a non-Ipod environment, so it is not going to be a runner for what I want to do.

Have just discovered Music Match Jukebox, which looks like it does exactly what I want it to do - it has support for Portable devices, and can transcode to them. Without duplicate files. It alos looks like WinAmp with a transcoder plug in will also do what I want to do.

jcwacky: Will check out the other options mentioned (eg CD-DA).

Cheers,

Simon




[ This Message was edited by: siwatkins on 2005-08-20 14:01 ]
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Posted: 2005-08-20 15:00:25
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@JoolsG4

I tried that option a while ago, but it didn't seem to have any effect! =/ I assumed my version of iTunes was partly broken somewhere, but I've moved on to other software so never bothered fixing it

[ This Message was edited by: evinco on 2005-08-20 15:17 ]
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Posted: 2005-08-20 16:14:28
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