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I recently made a backup of my music collection, some 30GB large. They are all WMA files. If I converted them to MP3 files would that save any space. If so, how should I do that, and what are the advantages/disadvantages to doing so?
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Converting your wma to mp3 is called transcoding and it is a bad thing because quality drops. I would not do it.
Size of the files depend only on the target bitrate and not on the format, meaning that a 96kbps mp3 is smaller than a 128kbps wma of the same song.
Bringing down the bitrate also brings down quality, of course.... It is up to you to decide what is sufficient for you size and qualitywise.
Converting your wma to mp3 is called transcoding and it is a bad thing because quality drops. I would not do it.
Size of the files depend only on the target bitrate and not on the format, meaning that a 96kbps mp3 is smaller than a 128kbps wma of the same song.
Bringing down the bitrate also brings down quality, of course.... It is up to you to decide what is sufficient for you size and qualitywise.
Unless it's WMA Lossless. Then, yes, it's a good idea.
How many albums in your collection?
How many albums in your collection?
QUOTE (Shade[ST] @ Dec 2 2005, 09:16 PM)
Unless it's WMA Lossless. Then, yes, it's a good idea.
No, it's still a a bad idea. What would that gain? The results would be a) much bigger b) wouldn't play in portable players c) be of exactly the same quality.
erm, i think he means convert FROM wma lossless to mp3 
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