Wav to HIMD

[g_montel]

Hi there!

I'm a new HI-MD owner I've just got my RH 10 and am very pleased with it (ok, the interface is way less ergonomic than my old Aiwa F70 but the preamps are very nice and USB uploading is a must!).

I'd like to be able to simply copy a WAV file from my HD to the HI-MD where it would be stored in HI-SP.

I haven't found a simple way to do that with SS 3.3

1) I imported the WAV file on the library

2) then converted the file into HI-SP in SS

3) then I tried to copy the file to the HI-MD but it couldn't ! It said "not enough memory" but the disk was blank and the file less than 200 MB in HISP ! It seems it wanted to copy the WAV file, not the HI-SP version of the file.

4) I deleted the WAV file from the file properties, then added the converted file in the library

5) then it ran ok, I could copy the file to the HI-MD

It's a pain.

Can I tell SS which "version" of a file I want to download to my HIMD ? Can SS do it in a transparent manner ?

Thanks

geoffroy

[Richard]

If multiple bitrate versions of a file exist and more than one of those is playable by your unit (in this case WAV/PCM and 256K) SS will always transfer by default in "as-is" mode and this means the higher bitrate file gets sent across.

To force it to transfer one file you have to delete the other.

What you could do is import the WAV into SS then change the transfer settings to always convert to 256. This way you don't manually convert the WAV it gets done so as part of the transfer, but if you are going to transfer other bitrate files then don't forget to change the settings back.

[g_montel]

If multiple bitrate versions of a file exist and more than one of those is playable by your unit (in this case WAV/PCM and 256K) SS will always transfer by default in "as-is" mode and this means the higher bitrate file gets sent across.

To force it to transfer one file you have to delete the other.

What you could do is import the WAV into SS then change the transfer settings to always convert to 256. This way you don't manually convert the WAV it gets done so as part of the transfer, but if you are going to transfer other bitrate files then don't forget to change the settings back.

thanks for the reply! I didn't notice there were transfer settings. I will check that this evening. Thanks!

geoffroy

[Richard]

thanks for the reply! I didn't notice there were transfer settings. I will check that this evening. Thanks!

geoffroy

With the transfer window open click on the toolbox icon under the right arrow. You will see them in here. As I said "As Is" is by default which means no conversion - but you can also specify "always convert to a given bitrate", or leave as "as-is" then if the track isn't playable by the destination unit "ask me" or again "always convert to xxx".

[g_montel]

With the transfer window open click on the toolbox icon under the right arrow. You will see them in here. As I said "As Is" is by default which means no conversion - but you can also specify "always convert to a given bitrate", or leave as "as-is" then if the track isn't playable by the destination unit "ask me" or again "always convert to xxx".

great! will try that tonight. thanks!

[bobt]

The other alternative I think is burn it to a cd and use simpleburner

Good luck

Bob

[tommypeters]

You don't need to burn it to a "real CD", you could burn it to an image file of a CD and mount that.