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| Thread ID: 80090 | 2007-06-11 05:19:00 | MP3 Player w/SD Expansion? | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 558089 | 2007-06-14 19:07:00 | Well . . . I bought the SanDisk Sansa® c200 Series MP3 Player ( . sandisk . com/Products/Catalog" target="_blank">www . sandisk . com(1199)-SanDisk_Sansa_c200_Series_MP3_Players . aspx), and so far it is pretty good . It has FM and FM-recording capacity, capable of MP3 . WMA and WMA/DRM too, although I might not use the DRM stuff at all . It's pretty small . . it has a blue control panel (kewl), and tiny little screen and earbuds . It can record, but I don't know the time/capacity because I am playing with it and even though I have 100 or so MP3s in it, it always shows the same amount of space for recording voice . . . so I have to play some more . I wonder (and will try to see) if I can transfer files from the player to my puter in WMP . . that's a little down the road yet . I need to save lectures and speeches in a large auditorium, some "open-mike" others as caught from the low yield FM broadcast . Did I say it's small? It's VERY small . Scary . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 558090 | 2007-06-14 19:32:00 | You should be able to transfer other MP3 files on to your player, the only ones you won't be able to put on there will be the DRMd wma files but I wouldn't bother downloading any of those in the first place because they are generally crap. There is also a more limited selection of DRMd wma files which are often difficult to get to play in the first place which is why music stores that sell those files are not prospering. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 558091 | 2007-06-14 19:38:00 | For the record, Microsoft no longer supports the original DRM on the "plays for sure" wma files (which your Sansa music player plays so stay away from them) since they moved to producing the crappy Zune. That means that the best music files for downloading are the good quality MP3 ones and any aac files as well as the newer DRM free aac files. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 558092 | 2007-06-15 06:23:00 | Thanks . . . it seems to run OK . . I can even take recorded (voice-microphone) recordings off the player and send them to a . wav folder that I have set up . Seems kinda silly, but I'll convert them to MP3 thru Audacity . . . but that means playing them in entirety to get them streamed into Audacity . Hmmmm . . . must be a better (read: faster) way to convert . wav to . mp3 . . . or am I dreaming? Would LAME work in reverse? I wonder if LAME is an en-coder/de-coder too? I seem to have some streamed/audacity'd files that are very inconsistent and some seem to save on the player and some that won't . . and it can't be an aac thing-y . Somehow I just know that aac (if they even had encryption) cannot get thru on a streamed-to-audacity-to mp3 conversion, as there's actually NO real download of anything that way . . . just a quizzical problem methinks . Another thing . . can I make the files load on the expansion card first? ( :rolleyes: I know, but I went out and bought the little expensive 1 gig Micro SD anyway . . . . kick me, but I did! :blush: ) Maybe it sets up a JBOD situation? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 558093 | 2007-06-15 06:28:00 | I havn't ever used Audacity, but does it have an import function that converts wav to MP3 so that you don't have to play the file to convert it? | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 558094 | 2007-06-15 07:08:00 | Hmmmm . . . must be a better (read: faster) way to convert . wav to . mp3 . . . or am I dreaming? Would LAME work in reverse? I wonder if LAME is an en-coder/de-coder too? Yep, so far as I know, LAME can both encode and decode . There are plenty of free programs out there that will convert wav files to mp3s . And nearly all of those programs use the LAME codec to do it . |
Sherman (9181) | ||
| 558095 | 2007-06-15 07:43:00 | iTunes will if you don't mind using it. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 558096 | 2007-06-15 08:04:00 | I havn't ever used Audacity, but does it have an import function that converts wav to MP3 so that you don't have to play the file to convert it?You don't have to play anything when you use Audacity, just open the .wav, and save as .mp3 It will "display" the audio file, but won't play it till you tell it to IIRC. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 558097 | 2007-06-15 08:31:00 | You don't have to play anything when you use Audacity, just open the .wav, and save as .mp3 It will "display" the audio file, but won't play it till you tell it to IIRC. Cool thanks for that.:) |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 558098 | 2007-06-16 02:33:00 | Gonna try that after dinner tonight..stand by to help later.... | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
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