WMA 10 Pro

[Met-AL]

Got a new car that has a Microsoft UVO system in it.

It supports MP3 and WMA.

How is WMA 10 Pro? It sounds nice, but is it widely supported? I'd hate to get a bunch of stuff ripped to find out down the road it will only work in my car.

 

[Procyon12]

itll work in zunes, xbox's, and rockbox flashed players (new versions)
thats pretty much it for devices...itll play in any computer...

 

[jeremyshaw]

I know most Motorola Android phones (stock) music player support it, all the way down the album art syncronization with WMP

 

[rive22]

Rip everything to FLAC to save for storage, then convert to whatever lossy formats you chose for the car/portable player/etc. When you want to switch just throw them out and make new ones from your lossless files.

dBpoweramp makes all of this a breeze.

If you're dead set on only using a lossy format then go with MP3 since it's the most supported and use MP3 LAME V0 or 320.

 

[Met-AL]

Eh, didn't get any replies. So I already went and did it last night.

Got my entire music collection ripped to WMA 10 Pro 192kbps which is the max.

Sounds great. 16.7GB, 3,647 files, 324 folders.

If I ever have to do this again, I am going to buy a couple more optical drives. Having only one drive takes forever. I think I watched half of Season 2 of the Sopranos while I did this.

 

[SirMaster]

If you have the storage you should just rip all your CDs to FLAC. Your collection should take about 100GB.