Transferring MP3 files to WMA on Creative Zen

Catmeow_3

I just bought a creative zen player and not knowing much about it spent several hours transferring a load of albums on to it as MP3s at 128. It has used up just over half the free space already, much more than I expected and after reading up on the internet I've realised I should have downloaded them on WMA at 64 instead for similar quality but half the space. (hope so far i'm correct). Can anyone help me as to how I can change the tracks to WMA files hopefully without having to delete off what I've done which took me HOURS!! Thank you so much for any help.

Rev

I have a creative and everything on it is WMA encodes at 64kbps. I use DBPoweramp to convert everything (have a look for version ten, it's free, unlike the newer ones which aren't). There is a setting to just delete the old file as you convert. Saves you having to convert tracks then put them back on.
You'll need the windows media codecs too.

Out of curiosity, how big is the creative and how many tracks do you have on it so far?

amcluesent

Transcoding from MP3 at 128 to WMA at 64 may have poor sound quality, much worse than ripping from CD to WMA. I'd try a few favourite tracks and then listen to the results before going ahead!

catmeow_2

Sounds like I may have to go through the tedious process again!

Rev - it's a creative zen sleek photo 20GB and now that I've deleted off the photos that came with it (they took up a surprising amount of space) I have 2143 tracks and 10026 free space. With using current 128MB I will be lucky to reach 5000 tracks. It is advertised as holding up to 15000 tracks, but the quality must be somewhat poor I would think.

Thank for the replies.

Rev

amcluesent wrote:

Transcoding from MP3 at 128 to WMA at 64 may have poor sound quality, much worse than ripping from CD to WMA. I'd try a few favourite tracks and then listen to the results before going ahead!

I tried both with my creative and noticed no difference in sound quality at all. Then again that might just be me.

Rev

catmeow wrote:

Sounds like I may have to go through the tedious process again!

Rev - it's a creative zen sleek photo 20GB and now that I've deleted off the photos that came with it (they took up a surprising amount of space) I have 2143 tracks and 10026 free space. With using current 128MB I will be lucky to reach 5000 tracks. It is advertised as holding up to 15000 tracks, but the quality must be somewhat poor I would think.

Thank for the replies.

I have had the creative Muvo2 (4gig) for about a year and have around 1300 tracks on it and still have 1.5 gig left.