Hi,
I have many files stored on my Brenan JB7 (OK!) and backed up on an external
HD. To preserve full quality I saved them uncompressed and they are in .wav
format. I want to put them onto my MP3 players (Cowon and Samsung ACE
phone) but would like to compress them in order to get more onto the
players.

Please can anyone advise as to the best way of doing this? Are there good,
free wav to MP3 converters that allow compression? Detailed advice is
needed!

Thanks,

Yours naively,

Gordon

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Hi, I have many files stored on my Brenan JB7 (OK!) and backed up on an
external HD. To preserve full quality I saved them uncompressed and
they are in .wav format. I want to put them onto my MP3 players (Cowon
and Samsung ACE phone) but would like to compress them in order to get
more onto the players.

I guess you mean level compress in addition to the data 'compression' that
mp3 applies.

Please can anyone advise as to the best way of doing this? Are there
good, free wav to MP3 converters that allow compression? Detailed
advice is needed!

My first guess would be sox if you want to reprocess music and probably do
it to a large batch of files. But I don't normally use mp3, nor level
compress. So you'd need to check it does this. You may want 'earwax' as
well, though.

Slainte,

Jim

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Hi,
I have many files stored on my Brenan JB7 (OK!) and backed up on an
external HD. To preserve full quality I saved them uncompressed and they
are in .wav format. I want to put them onto my MP3 players (Cowon and
Samsung ACE phone) but would like to compress them in order to get more
onto the players.

Please can anyone advise as to the best way of doing this? Are there
good, free wav to MP3 converters that allow compression? Detailed advice
is needed!

Thanks,

Yours naively,

Gordon

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

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Hi,
I have many files stored on my Brenan JB7 (OK!) and backed up on an
external HD. To preserve full quality I saved them uncompressed and they
are in .wav format. I want to put them onto my MP3 players (Cowon and
Samsung ACE phone) but would like to compress them in order to get more
onto the players.

Please can anyone advise as to the best way of doing this? Are there
good, free wav to MP3 converters that allow compression? Detailed advice
is needed!

Thanks,

Yours naively,

Gordon

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

Audacity.
http://topsoft.co.uk/audacity
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On 07/11/2012 14:04, Gordon MacPherson wrote:
Hi,
I have many files stored on my Brenan JB7 (OK!) and backed up on an
external HD. To preserve full quality I saved them uncompressed and they
are in .wav format. I want to put them onto my MP3 players (Cowon and
Samsung ACE phone) but would like to compress them in order to get more
onto the players.

Please can anyone advise as to the best way of doing this? Are there
good, free wav to MP3 converters that allow compression? Detailed advice
is needed!

Thanks,

Yours naively,

Gordon

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

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"Gordon MacPherson" wrote in
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Hi,
I have many files stored on my Brenan JB7 (OK!) and backed up
on an
external HD. To preserve full quality I saved them
uncompressed and they
are in .wav format. I want to put them onto my MP3 players
(Cowon and
Samsung ACE phone) but would like to compress them in order
to get more
onto the players.

Please can anyone advise as to the best way of doing this?
Are there
good, free wav to MP3 converters that allow compression?
Detailed advice
is needed!

Thanks,

Yours naively,

Gordon

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

Audacity.

http://topsoft.co.uk/audacity
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The original is probably a better bet

audacity.soundforge.net

Do remember that there are many versions/sample /bit rates of wav
and in practice may still be compressed. If you want to save them
in a format that changes them little look at ogg.


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On 07/11/2012 14:04, Gordon MacPherson wrote:
Hi,
I have many files stored on my Brenan JB7 (OK!) and backed up on an
external HD. To preserve full quality I saved them uncompressed and they
are in .wav format. I want to put them onto my MP3 players (Cowon and
Samsung ACE phone) but would like to compress them in order to get more
onto the players.

Please can anyone advise as to the best way of doing this? Are there
good, free wav to MP3 converters that allow compression? Detailed advice
is needed!


Not sure what you mean by compression. But for lossless-mp3 conversion I
just use iTunes nowadays. I only use mp3s for the car and find it does
what I want.

Rob

"Gordon MacPherson"
,
I have many files stored on my Brenan JB7 (OK!) and backed up on an
external HD. To preserve full quality I saved them uncompressed and they
are in .wav format. I want to put them onto my MP3 players (Cowon and
Samsung ACE phone) but would like to compress them in order to get more
onto the players.


** Errr - MP3 is *fundamentally* a method of compresing digital music
data.

CD format digital audio involves storing 1.41 million bits of data per
second.

The data rate after MP3 conversion is between 5 and 50 times less, you get
to pick the degree of quality loss you can tolerate.



..... Phil

"Gordon MacPherson" wrote in message ...

Hi,
I have many files stored on my Brenan JB7 (OK!) and backed up on an external
HD. To preserve full quality I saved them uncompressed and they are in .wav
format. I want to put them onto my MP3 players (Cowon and Samsung ACE
phone) but would like to compress them in order to get more onto the
players.

Please can anyone advise as to the best way of doing this? Are there good,
free wav to MP3 converters that allow compression? Detailed advice is
needed!

Thanks,

Yours naively,

Gordon

The Brennan itself can do exactly as you require.
From the internal hard drive It can convert stored wav files to back up
as MP3 to a USB connected device such as an external hard drive or
in your case a mobile playback device such as a phone and in some
instances an over-priced Apple product, though it has to be Windows
formatted device, if an Apple product and *Mac OS*, only iTunes can be
used to back up as MP3. You didn't list an Apple device so you're safe.
You're first port of call should be:
The instruction manual
The Brennan site and the Support link and FAQ.
Brennan forums, click the site's contact button for details of user forums.

On 08/11/2012 08:03, RJH wrote:

Not sure what you mean by compression. But for lossless-mp3 conversion I
just use iTunes nowadays. I only use mp3s for the car and find it does
what I want.

Not sure what you mean by "lossless-mp3". :-)

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