[ubuntu-uk] Audio Conversion: WAV to WMA

[Tommy Pyatt]

Personally, for portable players I'd recommend using MP3 at at least
192kbps, I have never been able to tell the difference between WMA and MP3
and they're both lossy formats. MP3 tends to be supported on more players
than WMA does.

You could always keep compressed and uncompressed copies, or you could use
lossless FLAC to reduce the size of the WAV's.

Tommy

On 14 April 2010 13:00, Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk> wrote:

> On 14/04/10 12:39, Nigel Verity wrote:
> > Hi Guys
> >
> > 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. After much experimentation I've concluded that OGG and
> > WMA are both better formats for sound quality than MP3 at a given bit
> > rate. The trouble is that neither of my portable players will play OGG,
> > so it has to be WMA.
>
> Actually when I was doing some broadcast training I was shown some
> results of some tests of audio quality, WMA came out the worst.  I
> believe the best was ATRAC as used on Minidisc (or those Sony Network
> Walkmans).
>
> When you were doing tests, what parameters did you use?
>
> Did you use a constant bit rate (say 192kbit/sec) or a variable bit rate
> with joint stereo?
>
> Anyway, back to encoding in WMA...
>
> I did a quick Google search and found this...
>
> http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t52493.html
>
> It seems the command line is as follows:
>
> ffmpeg -i test.wav -acodec wmav2 -ab 128 test.wma
>
> Can't say if it works though, I tend to use MP3, OGG and FLAC myself.
>
> Rob
>
>
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