News Forum Phone database

> New Topic
> Reply
< Esato Forum Index > Sony Ericsson / Sony > Software, Firmware and Drivers > Making out more of your Memory Stick Bookmark topic

Hey man... do you have any clues as why might be going on?

Or do you know any other transcoder that will let me arrange the structure of the output files & folders? Cause that's really all I care about.

Thanks.
--
Posted: 2006-01-24 13:47:48
Edit : Quote


Dan,

I really don't know what happens on your system with the crashes. I never experienced that. All I have are issues with the virtual MS drive getting disconnected all the the time. But that's not caused by MediaCoder as it happens with Windows Explorer as well while just copying files. Sometimes even the K750 resets when this happens. I came to the conclusion that it's a combination of the bugs in the most recent K750 firmware and the terribly buggy USB drivers delivered by SE. I overcome this with the setting "Skip existing files" set to yes. When it happens, I disconnect the USB cable, re-connect it, and restart the transcoding. This way it skips all files already transcoded and resumes where the disconnect happened last time.
What MP3 encoder do you´have installed on your system? What Windows version are you using?

I'm not sure what you meant with "rearrange folders" in your previous posting. What you can do with MC (by setting the "Recurse dirs" setting to "Yes" and the one I already posted) is that the folder structure underneath the folder you're adding is reproduced underneath the destination folder you selected. Is it what you meant?

As for other usable free transcoders, I only found GXTransCoder, which is extremely buggy, beyond usability because of that.



--
Posted: 2006-01-24 14:42:30
Edit : Quote


I followed the tips posted by MP3Freak and I've done a test. I encoded a song using Disk2Phone at 128k and I encoded the same song with DBPowerAmp with a VBR using the Lame encoder. Max bitrate was 128k, min bitrate was 64k. The first one was 3,6 MB, the second 2,8 MB. When I play the 2 songs I can't here any difference. (Using high end sony earbuts, not the SE ones) Using the VBR gives me 22 % more space on my MStick. For a 468 MB (512) stick thats about a 100 MB space you get extra!!
Then I tried to set the min bitrate to 32k, but the result was only a few k smaller.
In the last test I used a min bitrate of 96. The song was a 100k bigger and I heard no difference on my W800

By the way, mediacoder crashed every time I tried to encode something. I'll Stick to DBPowerAmp.

[ This Message was edited by: paternoster on 2006-01-24 16:32 ]
--
Posted: 2006-01-24 16:38:46
Edit : Quote


For all dbPowerAmp Users:

I hope you're aware of this:

http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/6B00L2AEUA.html

AFAIK that's up to the most current version involved...


--
Posted: 2006-01-24 17:16:05
Edit : Quote


@paternoster

Thanks for the confirmation on this topic. The space saving depends largely on the kind of music track. Older ones (with limited frequency range) provide a bigger saving than modern digitally mastered music with more high frequency components. Also, music files with more silent parts get shorter than those with continous high level.

That said, of course the quality must be the same, as the max bitrate is granted whenever the signal structure requires it. It's just lowered where possible with the same quality level.


--
Posted: 2006-01-24 17:21:35
Edit : Quote


Mediacoder kept crashing for me too...But if found GX Transcoder to work well for me.

http://www.freewarefiles.com/[....]ds_counter.php?programid=13806

RazorLame is another good interface to use the Lame encoder

_________________
metroside

Happy owner of a K750i

[ This Message was edited by: metroside on 2006-02-04 09:34 ]
--
Posted: 2006-02-01 12:44:50
Edit : Quote

---

New Topic   Reply

Forum Index