Hi Gary. You'll need windows media player 10. Go to Toolds menu, Options and press enter. Locate the ripping tab. Here you'll find a combo box of formats. Select the lossless WMA files format and each rip that you do with media player will now be lossless WMA.
Now, if you want to edit or set volume, you could use Goldwave as I do. The current version of Goldwave doesn't seem to support the version 10 files but it does support 9.1 lossless WMA files so be sure to save with that format as VBR 100 16 bit stereo. With regards to size, a WMA at 128kbps will typically take up 5MB for a 5 minute track. A lossless WMA file of the same length will take approximately 30MB so you've got to be serious about the sound quality to justify the overhead in file size. Regards. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 9:20 PM Subject: Re: WMA's > I beg your pardon. Could you either explain or direct me to an explanation of how to make these lossless files? Also, what's the size relative to a 128 mp3 file, any ideas? > Thanks. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kevin Lloyd > To: PC audio discussion list. > Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 3:04 PM > Subject: Re: WMA's > > > Hi Gary. > > My hi-fi CD player is a Linn Mimik so it's a few years old and only plays > audio CD's. What I do is use the lossless WMA files from my computer and > burn them as audio CD's. When I play them back through my Linn system, > there's no lack of upper or higher frequencies and the result is truly CD > quality. > > As I said, playing music on a computer or portable device or even on an > audio system that isn't quite hi-fi does yield good results with MP3 but > with a more discerning high end hi-fi system you're not going to want to > sacrifice those frequency extremes and depth of soundstage and imaging. > > Regards. > > Kevin > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gary Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:35 PM > Subject: WMA's > > > > Hi Kevin. Do you burn CD's as WMA's for home use on your hi fi system? > > _______________________________________________ > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
