Bitrate Conversion on Sync to Device

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by jiri » Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:38 am

This should work better in the next release, there won't be so much empty space left.

Jiri

by Spazz » Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:12 am

New idea for this, probably a hell of a lot easier. Just add an "Always do This" checkbox to the error dialog. Ex. Always Fill even though it's showing not enough space or Never fill.

by Spazz » Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:10 am

Just something I noticed, this seemed the appropriate place to put it.

I have a creative zen nano that mounts as a mass storage device to load songs. When I use mediamonkey to auto synchronize it, i set it to load files up to device capacity. The stitch however is that I also have it auto converting down. Is there any way to have it take this into account? Like after it copies check how much space is left and they keep syncing a song or two at a time until it's full? I ended up with 80 megs free space last time I used sync up to capacity.

by jiri » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:25 am

Anubis, MM should do it, just select your FLAC files and convert audio format to MP3.

Jiri

by Spazz » Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:27 am

abrazor wrote:switched back? if you dont mind me asking, why did you switch away in the first place?
The lack of global hotkeys.

The lack of a party shuffle type thinger (That was actually the reason I started again)

The no iPod support

A few other minor things.

That and I am a little schizo about my music programs, I'm always switching back and forth.

by Anubis » Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:35 pm

jiri wrote:Well, you can try to convert FLAC to MP3 on your machine, the performance will be like this (+plus some rather negligible time for upload to the device).

Jiri
But I don't have a FLAC to MP3 convertor.
Do you recommend one that I can run this test with?

by abrazor » Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:36 pm

switched back? if you dont mind me asking, why did you switch away in the first place?

by Spazz » Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:29 pm

Ah sweetness. I knew there was a reason I switched back to Mediamonkey! :D

by jiri » Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:56 am

Well, you can try to convert FLAC to MP3 on your machine, the performance will be like this (+plus some rather negligible time for upload to the device).

Jiri

by Anubis » Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:51 am

jiri wrote:Sure, it will most likely appear there.

Jiri
Fantastic, when this is available, I'll start keeping my music in FLAC format and transcoding to MP3 for my H340.

Any idea what the performance will be of the transcoding (from FLAC to MP3 192)? It's not a super concern, as I only sync to the H340 once or twice a month, and if it takes a while, I can live with it...

by jiri » Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:39 am

Sure, it will most likely appear there.

Jiri

Bitrate Conversion on Sync to Device

by frodesi » Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:28 am

Hi,

I'm currently using MM 2.5.1.901. I can't find any functionality for transcoding when syncing to device. Is this still a priority for the final MM2.5 release?

by onkel_enno » Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:32 am

I didn't read completly, but please include Volume Leveling while synchronizing too.

by jiri » Mon Aug 22, 2005 3:03 pm

This is planned for version 2.5.

Jiri

by siwatkins » Sun Aug 21, 2005 10:10 am

To the OP, this is exactly what I've been looking for for days now! I have a Sony Ericsson W800I Walkman phone, with a 512Mb stick. It will only play MP3 or M4A (AAC) files, and they have to be placed in a specific folder structure (artist\album\track) type format.

My collection is predominantly in WMA Lossless and high bit rate MP3, neither of which are directly suitable for a Portable Device such as my Walkman phone. I thought Media Monkey was the answer to 2 days worth of scouring the web for suitable software. Sadly it won't transcode on the fly, though this would be a killer feature. Especially so with the millions of these Walkman phones that are going to hit the market.

The only thing I've found to come close to doing what I want, is by using Winamp and a Transcoder plug in. That does do the job, but is a little slow, and offers no synchronization features.

MediaMonkey, there is a huge gap in the market here - Sony Ericsson are selling these phones like hot cakes, and their provided software will only downsample from MP3, which is no good if you are a lossless WMA user.

Can you do something? Can't be too much work - you already have the various functionality required in the program, just not quite as integrated as it needs to be :-)

Simon

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