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Title: MP3 to WMA doesn't work?
Post by: tlongacre on July 03, 2003, 11:20:56 am

I have a set of MP3's (VBR) that I wanted to convert to WMA format to put on my Nomad MuVo (don't care so much about quality, wanted to save space). But MC9 won't do it. Every time, it acts like it is converting, and then at the end of going through every song, it says "Failed to Convert", but does not give me any indication why. I ended up using some Audio Converter that came with Windows Media Player, but it doesn't give me much flexibility.

Shouldn't this work? Do I need a plug-in or something? Is there some trick I'm missing?

Title: Re: MP3 to WMA doesn't work?
Post by: shAf on July 04, 2003, 04:11:44 am

When I tried this (... converting a MP3 to WMA for a friend ...), it didn't work either ... BUT, I did get a message implying I needed the WMP9 plugin.  There is a WMP plugin implied at the MC DL site, but that didn't work either.  Not until I installed WMP9 from the Microsoft wwwsite, did it work properly.  13Mb for just a WMA codec ... not worth it in my opinion, but may be for you.

Title: Re: MP3 to WMA doesn't work?
Post by: LonWar on July 04, 2003, 08:06:51 am

I tried this last night. I went from MP3 at 320kbps to WMA at 96kbps.

I worked fine with no problems.
However I do have wm9 installed, maybe that's why?

Title: Re: MP3 to WMA doesn't work?
Post by: tlongacre on July 05, 2003, 02:25:09 pm

WEll, I've got WMP9 installed and have the latest version of the plug-in, I checked. Still doesn't work. Does the fact that the current versions were all ripped at VBR have anything to do with it?

Title: Re: MP3 to WMA doesn't work?
Post by: JimH on July 06, 2003, 02:31:02 am

More details might help.  Version of MC?  Bitrates?

It should work fine.  VBR is not a problem.

Title: Re: MP3 to WMA doesn't work?
Post by: tlongacre on July 11, 2003, 01:40:17 pm

Bitrates vary, right? 'Cause I'm using VBR. Usually in the 190+ range, though.

Here's my info:

Media Center Registered 9.0.180 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows 98 SE
Intel Pentium III 498 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 261 MB, Free - 0 MB
Resource Info: System - 16 %, GDI - 56 %, User - 16 %

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 / Shell32.dll: 4.72.3812.600 / wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0001) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: N/A

Ripping /   Drive F:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: No /  Play sound after ripping: Yes  Soundfile:   chord.wav

Burning /  Drive F: PLEXTOR  CD-R   PX-W4012A   Addr: 0:0:0  Speed:40  MaxSpeed:40  Use MJ Engine:Yes
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
 Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None