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Hi, I have a friend who asked me for some advice as to what to use to convert all his WMA files (about 150GB) so that he can play them on his iPod. He unfortunately used Windows Media Player when ripping the tracks and didnt change the settings. So now he has all his songs in WMA 128Kbps.
He was complaining because when he imported the files into iTunes it converted them into a format that the iPod could play but it was taking ages and the processor usage went up to 100% and the temperature was hitting over 75°C. I told him that it was inevitable because re-encoding the music is CPU intensive. But I thought that obviously the compression in the first place will have lost a lot of the data and converting to Mp3 or ACC will probably make it even worse quality?
Is there a program that will be able to handle the amount of files that he wants converting quickly or will it be a case of leaving it running for a long time? Could he burn the songs to a DVD and then re-rip them as mp3's or whatever? Would this be quicker?
Cheers
He was complaining because when he imported the files into iTunes it converted them into a format that the iPod could play but it was taking ages and the processor usage went up to 100% and the temperature was hitting over 75°C. I told him that it was inevitable because re-encoding the music is CPU intensive. But I thought that obviously the compression in the first place will have lost a lot of the data and converting to Mp3 or ACC will probably make it even worse quality?
Is there a program that will be able to handle the amount of files that he wants converting quickly or will it be a case of leaving it running for a long time? Could he burn the songs to a DVD and then re-rip them as mp3's or whatever? Would this be quicker?
Cheers
