Need .wma transcode help

[Shropshire Slasher]

I need some help from the guru's here at .GC

 

So I've got a rather largish music library on my HD. I use my PS3 and WMP11 to play the library through my home theater. Very happy with this setup.

 

I have two different formats used to rip CD's to the HD:

 

Windows Media Audio 9.1

192 kbps, 44 kHz, stereo 1-pass CBR

 

Windows Media Audio 9.1 Lossless

VBR Quality 100, 44 kHz, 2 channel 16 bit 1-pass VBR.

 

The PS3 can play the constant bitrate stuff, but not the variable. So... off I go on a little project.

 

1. Is the reason the PS3 can't play the VBR content the VBR itself or the relatively high bitrates of those files (approx 1Mb)?

2. I can think of 2 possible solutions:

a. find some software to do batch transcoding from VBR lossless to 192kbps CBR

b. find a media server to do on-the-fly transcoding of the content to the PS3.

 

So... can anyone offer their perspectives? Nothing I've found from Sony or a google search can tell me what the PS3 supports for bitrates... only that .wma is supported.

 

I suspect 2a above is my solution... so can anyone offer a media transcoder (free preferably but any is welcome) that i can use to achieve the transcoding?

 

Any other solutions that haven't occurred to me?

 

Thanks for advice.

 

SS

Edited November 25, 2007 by Shropshire Slasher

[ZesteR]

Media coder - meh?

[dragonfly]

If you have an x-fi card it has a program to do that (converting) and you can load em all in there with an output folder and walk away while it changes them all.

[stutters]

foobar2000 gets the job done. load all tracks, right click, convert to your lil sun-shining heart's desire.

http://www.foobar2000.org/

 

 

i won't bother asking why you've elected wma. momentary lapse of reason?

Edited November 25, 2007 by sj

[Shropshire Slasher]

foobar2000 gets the job done. load all tracks, right click, convert to your lil sun-shining heart's desire.

http://www.foobar2000.org/

 

 

i won't bother asking why you've elected wma. momentary lapse of reason?

 

Heh... you can't answer a question without passing judgment, eh?

 

When did we get married, SJ?