Re: MP3 converters

Hmm, that's pretty bizarre - I can see it here :

It's on the small white drop down arrow under Rip -> Format, or under
More Options then Format the last entries are WMA Lossless, MP3 and
WAV (Lossless) - it sounds like you're saying that's not on the menus
at all ?

It may possibly be related to the error message C00D0FAA in the
article below, so I'd check the registry for the key value and see if
it's there or not :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Settings\Mp3Encoding\LowRateSample
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/10/errors.aspx#c00d0faa_0x00000000

Cheers - Neil

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:10:02 -0800, rcir88
<rcir88@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm the original message poster, but wasn't part of that bit about freeware.
I must be hallucinating because I simply do not see a MP3 converter on WMP
11. Where is it hiding? I go to the Rip menu to format and there is only
WAV, Windows Media Audio, WMA Pro and WMA Lossless (whatever the heck that
is). You're the second person who said the WMP 10 or 11 has an MP3 encoder,
so I'm beginning to think there is one. But where?!?

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:27:01 -0800, rcir88
<rcir88@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is WMP 10 a Windows player that you purchase?

It's available for download for XP machines at no cost. It's not
available for pre-XP operating systems, and it's not available for
Vista (the default WMP11 which can't be rolled back or repaired)

You can get WMP10 from this download page :
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/10/default.aspx


I ask because the one that MS
provides for free rips CD's to WAV or Windows Media Audio. You have to
purchase an add-in to have MP3 conversion capabilities. When I looked on the


The add-in was for WMP9 and earlier, WMP10 shipped with a bulit in MP3
encoder partly because of the number of problems with standalone ones
(it was a frequent user request). MS bit the bullet and paid for the
license for that encoding on behalf of the users.


MS web site for converters, I didn't see one that was made by MS. I'm
concerned about the add-in I did purchase because I think I detect some
distortion at some frequencies of the MP3 audio files.


You would have to run it through a waveform analyser to be sure though

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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