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Title: Sync/Burn Device capacity
Post by: lee269 on April 19, 2006, 02:38:31 pm

Most of my library is encoded in ape - at least the recent rips. I sync to my (512Mb) player and recently tried to burn an mp3 CD for the car. My default is to transcode to mp3.

Problem is that with ape (and I guess other lossless formats) I soon get the 'overflow' message, which seems to be based on the size of the original apes rather than the transcoded mp3s. OK except that there is then no way to figure out how to fill my chosen device - at this point Im guessing. The last car CD I burned ended up only half full. Is it possible for MC to give a better estimate of the ultimate file sizes based on some simple conversion factors?

Id be happy overflowing some files or not filling up the device completely if I could - I guess anything would be better than my estimates. Or am I missing something?

Title: Re: Sync/Burn Device capacity
Post by: Alex B on April 19, 2006, 03:45:56 pm

This thread may help: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=32829.0

Title: Re: Sync/Burn Device capacity
Post by: Krazykanuck on April 19, 2006, 06:05:46 pm

This was an issue I had last year and it was fixed.
MC is supposed to guesstimate the size after conversion not use the size of the APE files.
I haven't tested it recently but I haven't heard the kids complain lately so as far as I know it is working.