MP3 question
Feb. 16th, 2011 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmegaeraI have a question for you techie types out there.
I have some CDs I want to convert to MP3 files on my computer. I have figured out how to rip them directly to MP3 using Windows Media Player, but I notice that the file sizes aren't much smaller for those MP3s (they're almost the same size as the WMA files) the way they are for similar-length files I've ripped from MP3 CDs (as opposed to regular CDs).
Is that an artifact of Windows Media Player? Or is that just the way things work when converting from the one format to the other?
Not that the size matters all that much. It would just be nice to put more than a couple of whole audiobooks onto my current MP3 player, is all.
I don't particularly want to download software just to convert WMA files to MP3 files, but I will if it will result in smaller files. And I will if someone can give me a personal recommendation for software that will do this. I don't want to just go out on the net and grab something that might not be the best piece of software for the job.
Help? Pretty please?
ETA: Never mind. The two kinds of MP3 files are exactly the same size at the same length. I don't know what I was talking about.
I have some CDs I want to convert to MP3 files on my computer. I have figured out how to rip them directly to MP3 using Windows Media Player, but I notice that the file sizes aren't much smaller for those MP3s (they're almost the same size as the WMA files) the way they are for similar-length files I've ripped from MP3 CDs (as opposed to regular CDs).
Is that an artifact of Windows Media Player? Or is that just the way things work when converting from the one format to the other?
Not that the size matters all that much. It would just be nice to put more than a couple of whole audiobooks onto my current MP3 player, is all.
I don't particularly want to download software just to convert WMA files to MP3 files, but I will if it will result in smaller files. And I will if someone can give me a personal recommendation for software that will do this. I don't want to just go out on the net and grab something that might not be the best piece of software for the job.
Help? Pretty please?
ETA: Never mind. The two kinds of MP3 files are exactly the same size at the same length. I don't know what I was talking about.
