Getting more mp3's on a player?

[bhess]

Anyone use a mp3 player? I just got one with two 16mb cards. I can only get 3-4 songs on each card. Is there anyway to get more?
thanks

[flash4master]

can you decrease the bit rate for a smaller file? i believe so, lower bit rate = less quality = more songs.

[Gomer]

Check out this thread
http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/009400.html

not exactly what you are looking for but there other options out there.

[bhess]

That's what I'm looking for, decreasing the bitrate. How do you do that? I use musicmatch for an mp3 player and I couldn't find a way to reduce it.

[bhess]

hello?

[Warthog]

Hello

In Music Match, go to Recorder/Options and you will see the quality settings. Try "Near CD" to start and see how many songs you can store.

Warthog

[RobRich]

What player are you using? Some players support the Microsoft ASF sound format.

The 64kbps ASF format sounds offers about the same quality as FM radio! 96bkps ASF offers CD-quality sound. These options offer a significant size reduction as compared to MP3's 128kbps CD-quality defualt format.

Robert Richmond

[bhess]

I have the IJAM IJ-100. http://www.ijamworld.com/players.html
I don't see anything under specs about this.

Cangrats RobRich. I just noticed the new title.

[RobRich]

Looks like your player is not currently listed as having ASF/WMA support:

http://windowsmedia.com/MediaGuide/cooldevices/cooldevices.asp

Hopefully it will in the near future, as WMA can really help with smaller flash cards without loosing too much sound quality. All I can recommend right now is to downsample your MP3 files to 64kbps before transfering them. While 64kbps MP3's aren't the greatest for quality (I would rate between AM and FM radio), it will allow you to store 2x songs than your capable of now.

Thanks for the congrats! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Later,
Robert Richmond

[bhess]

Thanks "warted-one". I didn't see that. Now I have another problem. When I record it records through my mic not the playlist.
Source is set to system mixer.
It seems like I should add the files to the playlist then hit record right? They should then be reduced to the set directory.