On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:48:24 +0000, RJH wrote:

On 17/11/2012 20:51, Edmund wrote:
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:45:51 +0000, Mike Brown wrote:

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". :-)


Haha :-)

He means he don't know what MP3 is, which isn't compression, it is
reduction -throwing away data- AND compression.
Compression is like changing 10 10 Euro banknotes for one of of 100
Euro.
MP "compression" is like changing 10 10 euro banknotes for 1 of 20
Euro.


Not sure it's quite that linear Edmund. MP3 is a method of encoding
known as 'lossy' data compression. The '-' character meant 'to' in my
post.

I know that clever marketeers forced the world to a speech defect.
"Compression" never ever meant trowing away anything ever.
If one trow away data, air money or whatever, you are not compressing it
then you are trowing it away. Which is exactly what MP3 does, although
they combine that with compression.

"Compressing" 10 10 euro banknotes to 1 banknote of 20 euro is a pretty
accurate comparison with music and MP3.

Edmund









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.