Lossless WMA to MP3 Corruption

[jmatthias]

Hi,

I seem to be getting random pops and digital noise in my MP3 files after converting them from lossless WMA to MP3 using the Lame encoder.

The WMA files themselves are not corrupt so the WMA to MP3 conversion process seems to be the problem.

Does anybody have any suggestions?

Joel

[ChristinaS]

Hi,

I seem to be getting random pops and digital noise in my MP3 files after converting them from lossless WMA to MP3 using the Lame encoder.

The WMA files themselves are not corrupt so the WMA to MP3 conversion process seems to be the problem.

Does anybody have any suggestions?

Joel
What settings do you have for the lossless wma and for the resulting mp3?

[jmatthias]

The lossless WMA was created using the default Windows Media Player settings (you cannot change the bit rate since it is lossless).

I am converting from WMA to MP3 at 128K, 44KHz, Stereo.

The source drive is an external USB drive and the destination is an internal IDE drive.

I have an XP2600 CPU with 512MB RAM.

Joel

[LtData]

The lossless WMA was created using the default Windows Media Player settings (you cannot change the bit rate since it is lossless).

I am converting from WMA to MP3 at 128K, 44KHz, Stereo.

The source drive is an external USB drive and the destination is an internal IDE drive.

I have an XP2600 CPU with 512MB RAM.

Joel
First, try test converting your losless file. If that succeeds, try convering to an intermediate format, such as FLAC or Monkey's. I suggest these two over WAV so you can keep your tagging information.

[ChristinaS]

The lossless WMA was created using the default Windows Media Player settings (you cannot change the bit rate since it is lossless).

I am converting from WMA to MP3 at 128K, 44KHz, Stereo.

The source drive is an external USB drive and the destination is an internal IDE drive.

I have an XP2600 CPU with 512MB RAM.

Joel
Right, lossless has the same settings as the original wav it came from, but they need not be those of a 16-bit wav, 44.1KHz, 2-channel stereo. It could be somehting else. That's what I'm asking about.

[Spoon]

try converting to wave, does that have pops and clicks?