Change Bitrate on Sync

Flamsmark · Post by **Flamsmark** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:24 am

I have a small [512mb] flash player that I use for jogging and other shakeable activities where I don't want to use my main HD player. But I encode all my mp3s at a bitrate of 320. This is fine for a 40gb HD player, and a computer with as much storage as I'll ever need. However, it tends to really limit the number of files that can be put on my flash player.

So, my question: as MM has an integrated mp3 decoder and encoder, is it possible to convert files to a lower bitrate when they're being copied to specific portable devices?

What I'm really looking for is a checkbox on the 'synchronisation options' tab of the 'device profile' window which says 'reduce bitrate on sync?' and which, when checked, allows you to set the bitrate to reduce to.

julzcompufreek · Post by **julzcompufreek** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 8:33 am

This is currently not available (as you can probably see). However, if you really want to be able to do this there is an alternative but you can use the syncronise feature to do it.

What you can do is select the files you want to transfer over, right click on them and go to Send to>Folder (Rip/Convert) and select the drive that your mp3 player shows up as. Once you do this the encoding window will show and you can select how you would like to convert your media.

The downsides to this are that no playlists will be transfered and it will only work if the player shows up as a removable drive (which I think yours does).

I hope this helps.