Friday, April 30, 2004
iTunes 4.5 and WMA Import Transcoding
Posted by Jason Dunn in "ARTICLE" @ 09:07 PM
"iTunes 4.5 just completed transcoding the WMA portion of my music library, or about 700 songs. It took the application 5 hours to do this, on a Pentium 4 2.8 GHz system with 768 MB of RAM. That seems a bit excessive, but hey, you only have to do it once. A number of people wrote in, taking exception to my "sounds like crap" comments about transcoding. As I suspected, however, none of these people had actually spent time transcoding. So let's look at how this works..."
Paul Thurrott talks about the transcoding functionality of the new iTunes client, and even though he doesn't like it, he's surprisingly positive about iTunes when all is said and done. I'd sooner be stabbed in the eyes with wee hot forks than have to transcode all my audio just to use a music player, no matter how good it is. Sorry Apple, if you want me to use iTunes, make it play my WMA files. Yeah, I know that's never going to happen, but I want to give lil' Stevie a chance. :lol:
Paul Thurrott talks about the transcoding functionality of the new iTunes client, and even though he doesn't like it, he's surprisingly positive about iTunes when all is said and done. I'd sooner be stabbed in the eyes with wee hot forks than have to transcode all my audio just to use a music player, no matter how good it is. Sorry Apple, if you want me to use iTunes, make it play my WMA files. Yeah, I know that's never going to happen, but I want to give lil' Stevie a chance. :lol:
