Hi:

I've been reading and searching the forums for a while with no solution to the above problem of converting my MPC's to WMA9 for my mp3 player.

Going from MPC to WMA9 is easy enough, dbpoweramp does it. However, it does not make use of the replaygain info, thus the resulting WMA's, after the equalizer on my mp3 player, sound horrible compared to if i used MPPDEC w/ replaygain, and then encoded them to wma.

I have tried CDex with WMCMD.VBS, and it works great with the Shibach MP3 plugin, but for some reason CDex doesn't work with the IN_MPC winamp plugin.

I have also tried FooBar, but I can't get the command line to work:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cscript.exe "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Components\Encoder\WMCmd.vbs" -input "%s" -output "%d" -a_codec WMA9STD -a_mode 3 -a_setting 128_44_2

Any help or advice on this would be much appreciated.
(Why am I trying to do this? Because my mp3 player can only play MP3s and WMAs, and at 128kbs, WMA9 sounds better to me than MP3, and it encodes faster as well)

In general, LAME is probably the best choice:

http://www.rjamorim.com/test/multiformat128/results.html (older LAME version, but still interesting given the results)

Though if you want to proceed with WMA anyway, foobar will do what you need. What error does that command line give?

Thanks for replying.

There's no error at all, the DOS box flashes, and I get a zero byte file as a result.

>after the equalizer on my mp3 player

That is the common miss-conception of graphic eqs, instead of boosting a frequency leave the frequency you need boosting at 0 and lower the other frequencies, yes replaygain should not clip (it lowers the volume of all frequencies for most modern cds).