Can someone explain please.....

[Gerrardasnails]

I have downloaded a song in 320kbps mp3 format and then used Poweamp converter to change the media type to WMA Lossless (like all my other files). It did this and the size went from 10mb to 30mb and it now says that it's lossless. Now I know you can't add information that wasn't there, so what has happened?

 

[Anonymous]

The new encoding hasn't lost any data from the 320kbps file, so it is lossless. The WMA lossless codec has made the file bigger, but there isn't any more data there than what you started with. ÿThe only good reason to change to WMA lossless from 320kbps would be for deviceÿcompatibility.

 

[Gerrardasnails]

griffy:The new encoding hasn't lost any data from the 320kbps file, so it is lossless. The WMA lossless codec has made the file bigger, but there isn't any more data there than what you started with. ÿThe only good reason to change to WMA lossless from 320kbps would be for deviceÿcompatibility.

You mean it hasn't lost any data so it's still lossy but very good quality? That's fine then, I was just worried that it might worsen the file.

Thanks.

 

[fatboyslimfast]

Correct. It won't have worsened it, as it should be the same quality. Just 3 times the size!

 

[Gerrardasnails]

fatboyslimfast:Correct. It won't have worsened it, as it should be the same quality. Just 3 times the size!

I'm not worried about size - I have a large hard drive (1TB) just for music.

 

[fatboyslimfast]

1TB is loads, but converting it won't make it sound any better. Is there a specific reason for changing it to lossless? If not, I would keep it as the original format, purely to save your time converting it!

 

[Gerrardasnails]

fatboyslimfast:1TB is loads, but converting it won't make it sound any better. Is there a specific reason for changing it to lossless? If not, I would keep it as the original format, purely to save your time converting it!

I was just being sad and wanting to keep the uniformity. 99.9% of my files have been ripped WMA Lossless so I just want all of them like that if possible.

 

[fatboyslimfast]

Fairy nuff - with a terabyte available it's not a biggy (well the drive is!), so if you are happy to do the conversion, go for it!