KMA or WMA/cdg

[bryant]

Originally Posted by mindonstrike

Dale it looks like you were correct.
This is from another thread where Lonman posed a similiar question about a year ago.


Sam

Can someone add more clarity to this, I now am a bit confused?
Thanx.

[admin]

Originally Posted by bryant

Can someone add more clarity to this, I now am a bit confused?
Thanx.

We're confused about your confused.

As a question and we can answer.

Jahern, as to WMA -vs- MP3 quality, at 192Kb rate, probably both will sound good. That's not much compression. At 128Kb, WMA will sound about the same as MP3 at 160Kb. So WMA can give you the same quaity at a higher compression ratio.

We are waiting for a bit more user feedback before doing Songverter 1.001 release. We will correc then BIN -> KMA naming error. We should have used the same naming convention throughout, but copying code pieces from other programs to do the same function, does ALL the functions the same. In this case, the Hoster naming of KMA files is different than Songverter. I'm sure that's how it happened.

[jahern]

I wasn't comparing wma and mp3. I'm assuming that KMA at 192 and WMA/cdg at 192 are exactly the same quality since they are based on wma, according to what I understand.

I believe that if I re-import all my discs to bin, then convert to WMA/cdg then my quality would be the same as to KMA. Then converting WMA/cdg to KMA later wouldn't pose any problem for quality loss.

Is that true?

I wasn't trying to put any heat or pressure on fixing the "BIN -> KMA naming error."

PS I haven't tested converting all formats to KMA, but WMA/CDG to KMA produces the same "naming error"

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by jahern

I wasn't comparing wma and mp3. I'm assuming that KMA at 192 and WMA/cdg at 192 are exactly the same quality since they are based on wma, according to what I understand.

I believe that if I re-import all my discs to bin, then convert to WMA/cdg then my quality would be the same as to KMA. Then converting WMA/cdg to KMA later wouldn't pose any problem for quality loss.

Is that true?

I wasn't trying to put any heat or pressure on fixing the "BIN -> KMA naming error."

PS I haven't tested converting all formats to KMA, but WMA/CDG to KMA produces the same "naming error"

You are correct. And I would think any conversion to KMA would produce the same name result.

[bryant]

Think I got it.

[admin]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

You are correct. And I would think any conversion to KMA would produce the same name result.

I agree. As I stated above, we took code from Hoster's import screen, which included creating KMA files with DiscID-Track#.kma filenaming.