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[ewingr]

If I rip my CDs to highest quality MP3 on the PC Server, and then  want to sync down to a handheld device, and have them be smaller/lower qlty files, can I do this during the transfer some how, or do I need to go through a process of copying them to smaller sizes in the first place?

I just tried creating a sub-folder and selected some files and went into the library tools to convert, adn selected hi quality handheld, and it came back with a message 'No conversion necessary'. Of course I was going MP3 to MP3, so I'm sure that is why it said that.

Only way I would know to do that now would be to convert them to some other format, then convert them back to MP3 with the different settings.

[JimH]

When you sync, try the options.  MC can convert on sync.

If you're concerned about quality, try ripping to a lossless format like APE.

[sunfire7]

As Jim says, you can rip to lossless on the PC server and then sync to handheld device with the converting option enabled, this way there will be less quality lost agains mp3 to mp3 conversion.

[ewingr]

Thansk guys. I may do that.

I originally had them in FLAC. But I often find it difficult to find FLAC support. So I moved to WMV, and my Onkyo has problems playing WMV from the server. So now I'm trying MP3 with highest resolution, but want to make them smaller for the phone.

Seems no simple solution that all types of boxes/servers, etc. will support.

My higher priority task at the moment is to figure out how to 'sync' to an FTP server (which is how I have my phone working). Different post on that...

May not be possible.