Handling formats

[lancecarr]

I need a little advice on the best way to handle some files I have so as to get them on to a portable MP3 player. A lot of my music collection is on CD so I understand that is a straight rip to the MP3 or WMA file size I want and load to the player. The problem I have is that another (large) part of my music is in the form of WMA files at 320kbps. I want to get these down to the 128/192kbps mark for the portable player. I would like any advice anyone can offer on the best way to do this and preserve quality. Do I further compress the already compressed files to WMA or should I convert to wav then compress to the size I want in either MP3 or WMA? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Lance

[Spoons]

Re: Handling formats

because they are already compressed wma files there is no point in converting to wav first and then to 128mp3.

any transcoding will result in a loss of quality. trial and error.