2 Pass Encoding Disabled

[Kenny Lee]

Hi! I am running Release 12.3 of the dbpoweramp Music Converter. When using the Windows Media Audio 9.2 codec with settings of VBR Quality 75, 454 kHz and stereo VBR, the 2 Pass Encoding option is disabled. I have read other threads here that say for 2 Pass Encoding to be enabled you need a Registered Power Pack and you need to have installed Windows Media Audio 10. I have a registered Power Pack and I have installed Windows Media Audio 10 yet 2 Pass Encoding remains disabled. What do I need to do to enable it?

[Wayne]

Do you have dBpowerAMP's Windows Media Audio 10 codec installed?

What WMA codec are you selecting? Windows Media Audio 9.2, 10 etc.?

Can you paste your dBpowerAMP configuration here together with details on how you have completed the dMC convert window?

[Kenny Lee]

Hi Wayne,

Yes, I installed dbpoweramp's Windows Media Audio 10 codec. I have tried all of the Windows Media codec flavors, but I mostly want to use Windows Media Audio 9.2 with settings of VBR Quality 75, 44 kHz and stereo VBR. Here is my configuration data:

dBpoweramp Music Converter
Release 12.3
Registration Status
mp3 License & Power Pack: Registered
All Media Guide: 30 Days Access Remaining

dBpoweramp Audio Player
Audio player extraordinaire


dBpoweramp CD Writer
Audio CD burning simplicity


Sveta Portable Audio
Enhance your portable player

Codecs Installed


Encoders (write)

mp3 (Lame) Lame 3.97
.mp3
Test Conversion
Wave Release 12.3
.wav
Windows Media Audio 10 Release 4 (WMA Pro 10)
.wma
Windows Media Audio 9 Release 1 (WMA Pro 9)
.wma


Decoders (read)

CD Decoder Release 12.3
.cda
mp3 Decoder Release 12.3
.m2a, .mp1, .mp2, .mp3, .mpa, .mpeg, .mpg, .mpga, .mpx
Wave Decoder Release 12.3
.wav
Windows Media Audio Decoder
.asf, .wma, .wmv


Install on Demand

Monkeys Audio .ape
FLAC .flac
Apple Lossless .m4a
m4a Nero (AAC) .mp4
Musepack .mpc
Ogg Vorbis .ogg
Real Audio (Helix) .ra
WavPack .wv
AAC (Advanced Audio Compression) (read only) .aac
Midi (read only) .mid
Shorten (read only) .shn

[Spoon]

2 Pass is not used on all WMA profiles, if I select

Windows Media Audio 9.2

Quality (VBR)

VBR Quality 98 44 KHz stereo vbr

then it can be selected (and VBR jumps to 192 kbps).

[Kenny Lee]

Hi Spoon,

When I select Windows Media Audio 9.2, Quality (VBR), VBR Quality 98, 44 kHz, stereo VBR; 2 Pass Encoding remains disabled. I have tried all permutations of settings and 2 Pass Encoding never becomes enabled.

[Spoon]

Which Windows version do you have?

[Kenny Lee]

XP Pro / SP-2.

[Spoon]

You installed the 10MB WMA Codec for XP? rather than the smaller Vista version?

[Kenny Lee]

I installed the download referenced as "Microsoft's v10 Pro, standard, lossless & voice" under Popular Codecs on the Codec Central page. Yes, the larger XP download.

[Wayne]

Have you tried uninstalling the Windows Media Audio 9 Release 1 (WMA Pro 9) codec?

[Kenny Lee]

I thought about that but I can't figure out how to uninstall it.

[Kenny Lee]

I figured it out. I had Windows Media Audio 9 selected in the "Converting To" dropdown. When I selected Windows Media Audio 10 there, the 2 Pass Encoding option became available. Thanks to all for the help!

[Wayne]

To remove old codecs etc. use the Add/Remove Programs option in the control panel.