Question before pre-purchase?

[Masturb]

I was planning on buying the Ipod Nano, because I'm quite a few short of the Ipod Video. This has probably been asked several times here...

Now with my old mp3 player, I used to convert mp3 files to .wma files. The 64 kbps wma files were of decent quality and less than half the file size of the 128 kbps MP3 files. The mp3 player I used was 256 MB, so if I kept the mp3 files at their normal respected 128 kbps file size, I could probably get about 80 songs on there. After I converted the mp3 files to 64 kbps wma, I was able to squeeze about 130-140 songs on there with pretty much the same nice quality (I have bose triport headphones)

Obviously the iPod doesn't read .wma files, so my question is what can I do to put more songs on my nano by compression but without losing quality?

Is there another format that will let me do this? Can somebody tell me what I should do?

[Masturb]

Re: Question before pre-purchase?

Sorry, I'm not sure if I posted this in the wrong forum. My internet has been very inconsistent lately and I wanted to hurry and post this before it stopped so at least in a few hours if it starts working again I won't have to type it all up.

[LtData]

Re: Question before pre-purchase?

You can try .mp4 files, which the iPod nana will play. They are better quality than mp3, but I'm not sure if you can get away with 64kbps...

[Masturb]

Re: Question before pre-purchase?

You can try .mp4 files, which the iPod nana will play. They are better quality than mp3, but I'm not sure if you can get away with 64kbps...

So what do you think is the lowest I can put it on an .mp4 file and still retain decent quality? 80? 96? 112? What are these other ones that I see here that I'm not familiar with like Quality 70 (VBR), Quality 80,60,90,100 (VBR)?

What about converting it to .AAC? I've heard that's a good option as well.

[Spoon]

Re: Question before pre-purchase?

AAC normally is mp4 (aac is used as the audio format for mp4).