I need info on how to compress a wav file in Vista. In my XP I could type
SNDREC32.EXE in the RUN blank and a little sound recorder came up and
compressed my wavs, after I had changed them from MP3 to wav, a large file. I
have prayer chains and I want background music on them all that I send
in.....but so far since I got Vista, I can't compress them. I've tried
downloading different compressors but nothing works. I would love to get some
info, Raylene Boggs
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"emanon" wrote:
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> "John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
> news:%23$SYW2TfHHA.4704@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> >I wasn't talking about computer CD players. I was talking about stand
> >alone players, like boom boxes. Car players I didn't say anything about,
> >only asked if he was sure his was MP3 capable. As to the rest of your
> >asinine ramblings they can stand on their own. I copy MP3 files to CDA
> >every day to play on my other standalone players.
> >
>
> And in creating a CDA, they are no longer MP3. That is what your original
> post implied you were interested in doing: play MP3 format CDs in a vehicle.
> Many people do this because you can get around the usual 80 minute time
> constraint of the CD media. If you copy all you files as MP3, then you can
> pack around 700 MB of material onto a single disk, regardless of play
> length. You may have different maximum capacities depending on your media or
> your hardware. The playback catch is, you must have a drive capable of
> playing MP3 music files. As I said, more vehicles are coming so equipped and
> vistrually any PC with a media player will do the job.
>
> One caution relating to the quality of the MP3: the more you try to compress
> it, the more the sound quality degrades. There are two corrollaries to this:
> 1) NEVER compress an MP3 after the inital conversion and 2) you can NEVER
> recover what has been lost. This is the real tragedy of many traded music
> files. Someone will minimally compress an MP3 to preserve as much of the
> quality as possible. Then someone else will try to fit this on their CD and
> find they need a high compression. This double compressed file is now passed
> off. Someone else receives this file and says, oh wait, let me store this at
> a lower compression so it sounds better. NOTHING IS REGAINED.
>
> The same applies to people that receive an MP3, then create a CDA CD from
> the MP3. Whatever was lost during the original compression stays lost. The
> first pass drops all frequencies outside of 20 - 20,000 Hz and any frequency
> also below a particular amplitutude. Once eliminated, these frequencies
> cannot be recovered. If a second MP3 is created from the reconstituted CDA,
> the sound quality is absolutely awful.
>
> Of couse you can disregard all these quality issues if your sole goal is
> cramming your portable player full as much as you can.
>
> > "emanon" <emanon@erehwon.com> wrote in message
> > news:OJPbPgTfHHA.4636@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> >>
> >> "John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
> >> news:udBKCTTfHHA.1456@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> >>> Almost no CD players support MP3 format disks. Are you sure your car
> >>> does? All disks must be closed before they will be able to be played on
> >>> another
> >>
> >> You are very much behind the time on this topic. More and more vehicel
> >> steros are "MP3 Capable". Virtually any PC with QuickTime, to name just
> >> one product, can play an MP3 file written to the CD . . . unless you are
> >> lazy and do not read the prompt asking if you want a music CD or a data
> >> CD. By selecting Data CD, you accept the file as is, i.e. MP3 files are
> >> copied to the CD as MP3 file and not translated to CDA.
> >>
> >> You are partially correct about closing the CD. This is a step I always
> >> do as it ensures the disk will be read by another device. Leaving the
> >> disk open *usually* allows the disk to be read ny the same drive that
> >> created it, i.e. you want to burn additional files to the same CD at a
> >> later date.
> >>
> >> As for WMA, what is that? It must be some propietary standard because no
> >> one I know uses it. I only use CDA or MP3 because anyone can play them.
> >>
> >>
> >>> "Andrew Watkins" <thvoicwethin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> >>> message news:OJQF15SfHHA.2396@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> >>>> Im using Vista to Burn my Cds but when the progress starts it says
> >>>> formatting 574 (or something like that) and it will not play in my cd
> >>>> player, nor my car (and my car nav system supports mp3, wma, wav,
> >>>> etc.). All the files were transferred from .wma to .mp3 by a program.
> >>>> Can anyone help me with this?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Thvoicwethin@hotmail.com
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
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