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Geek Culture / Legally halve the size of your mp3's

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M00NSHiNE
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Joined: 4th Aug 2003
Location: England, UK
Posted: 4th Apr 2004 16:46
Hey heres something you might like.

1. Go to www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/default.asp and click on the top combo box, change it to "Windows Media Bonus Pack".

2. Download the 18.2mb bonus pack(It might be XP only).

3. in this pack are many components you can install, you can install all of them, or just the Plus! MP3 Audio Converter LE Utility (for this task).

4. Launch the program, choose to convert specific audio files. Click next and add the file you want to convert from MP3 to WMA.

5. Choose a playback bit rate and select delete original file to save disk space.

Its perfectly legal (and did you expect the source to be microsoft?)to do this, plus it saves mucho disk space. Its down to the way that WMA files are encoded.

The program makes no change to the content of a file so playback quality is unaffected.

*NOTE: One small problem is that if the original MP3 file is encoded at less than 96Kbps then it may not contain enough data to enable the converted file to be compressed correctly.

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zircher
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Joined: 27th Dec 2002
Location: Oklahoma
Posted: 4th Apr 2004 19:17
Thanks for the heads up.

Martyn Pittuck
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Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 4th Apr 2004 20:45
but in the uk it is illegal to have a copy of a cd full stop.

I had a class of law students check the libary and it is breach of the copyight.

There are 2 or 3 countries in the EU which dont even allow backups (where a file on the PC can be the backup or the original cd itself can be the backup).

And guess what, the UK is one of them...

Whats so good about living anywho?
Lord Ozzum
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Location: Beyond the Realms of Death
Posted: 5th Apr 2004 01:02
well, I wish to thank you, M00NSHiNE, I was wondering if there was something to do that

You're just jealous cuz the voices don't talk to you!!!

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