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Compressing Music to WMA

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  • Donnie
    Donnie Posts: 9,862 Forumite
    Of course, the compression has alread taken place during the conversion to .wma.
    An easy analogy is to say that a Data CD maintains the size of the music file, whilst an audio CD maintains the duration of the music file.
  • Nytehawk
    Nytehawk Posts: 6,118 Forumite
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    Donnie wrote: »
    Of course, the compression has alread taken place during the conversion to .wma.
    An easy analogy is to say that a Data CD maintains the size of the music file, whilst an audio CD maintains the duration of the music file.

    Is it reasonable to assume that to use the compressed idea for oodles of tracks on 1 cd for use in my car, I need to but Dat cds :confused:
    "Did you hear about the frog that broke down on the motorway???? They toad him away!"
  • Donnie
    Donnie Posts: 9,862 Forumite
    No need to buy special CDs. Just normal CD-Rs will do.
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