[ubuntu-uk] Audio Conversion: WAV to WMA

[Tommy Pyatt]

FLAC does little to resolve the OP's problem though, he already owns a
player, which I assume supports only MP3 and WMA.

Tommy

On 14 April 2010 13:17, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:

> On 14 April 2010 12:39, Nigel Verity <nigelverity at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm a bit of an audiophile, and have a large collection of music stored
> in
> > WAV format to preserve the sound quality. Clearly it's not possible to
> copy
> > many of these huge files to a portable player, so they need to be
> > compressed.
>
> FLAC is your friend.
>
> alan at wopr:~/Music/Jesus Jones/Doubt$ ls -hl 3*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 alan alan 23M 2010-04-04 20:33 3 - International Bright
> Young Thing.flac
> -rw-r--r-- 1 alan alan 33M 2010-04-04 20:33 3 - International Bright
> Young Thing.wav
>
> Not a massive difference, 23M FLAC vs 33M WAV, but it helps, and is
> lossless. I use Rockbox on my media player, which plays FLAC just
> fine.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
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