Back when WMA9 was officially released (back in January?), I went and downloaded
something from their website, certainly the player, but also (maybe but not likely) a stand-alone WMA9 encoder package. (At the time, I recall that their site was somewhat confusing in what to download and what not to download.)
Anyway, a couple of months later I came across that dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC) program, and with it I discovered I had somehow installed WMA's Professional Series encoders. (If someone tells me they were installed when I installed dMC's WMA codec plug-in, I won't argue.)
These "professional" encoders are wicked cool (quoting "Mr. Deeds"), and please, no WMA flame wars here.
The thing is,
only dMC can see these codecs--no other audio program I have can see them, including MC. Even WMP doesn't give me full access to them: it won't let me do 2-pass encoding, nor will it let me go up to 440 Kbps VBR like I can do inside dMC (I can only go up to 355 Kbps).
First, does any one know why no other program can see these codecs? And second, is there any chance you guys at JRiver can give us access to them (if we already have them installed)? (Since no other program does, I won't hold it against you if you say no.
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Clarification: Decoding is not a problem. MC (and others) can play these 24-bit files; it's just encoding that is absent from all programs other than dMC.
Omni
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Topic: WMA Codecs -- Q. for JRiver and Others (Read 3738 times)