I downloaded 3 MP3s from a website (they’re free, this ain’t a legal issue) to play on my MP3 player. The tracks are techno, if that’s the correct term, so what I heard as bits of crackling, I took to be intended bits of the music.
I wanted to change the tracks on my MP3 player and for one reason or another, its easier to wipe it completely and reload tracks of choice than delete a few tracks and then replace them. So I put the MP3s on my PC and then reloaded some music (including these 3 MP3s) using the Sync menu on Media Player. While loading, Media Player had to convert those 3 downloaded tracks to WMA files for no given reason. Inexplicably, while listening to them again, there was suddenly a lot more content, not just a clearer track but more lyrics etc
The track definately does have more lyrics to it, something i didn’t hear before at all. I know that the idea behind an MP3 file is that it does away with some data to save space, but I thought it was only the sound you couldn’t hear anyway it took out, not something as obvious as complete lyrics. Any thoughts on why?
WMA files work in exactly the same way as MP3s, they just use a different method. And converting compressed file formats always results in lower sound quality, not better. So there’s no way this conversion could have achieved what you describe.
I see two possibilities, the second is more likely
I don’t know what Media Player’s Sync does, but is it possible it decided to download different versions of the same track on the fly from the same web site?
Perhaps the type of MP3 compression used by the original file wasn’t 100% compatible with your MP3 player (there are more than a few types). So it was skipping and garbling the playback. (Hey, it’s techno, who could tell?!) But once Media Player converted it (maybe it knows what’s most compatible with your player, maybe it just has a bias for WMA) the problem was resolved.
I’d go with your second suggestion. My PC back home has no internet access, I downloaded it at work. The Sync is just a way of loading tracks on it would seem with more control over which order they appear on the player.
My MP3 player had trouble with other tracks that were legally downloaded from a pay site, so perhaps its the file being a bit mangled in the first place.
