MP3 to what?

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After reading a few posts about MP3 files taking up CPU power, I have decided to get all my MP3 music files and convert them.
BUT to what? In other words what is the best to convert to and still maintaning some sort of reasonable quality, and using much less CPU power.

TIA,

Mike.

i just did the very same thing ..convert to 16 bit  wav files  ..sounds  good..
i used a pc  program called freemake audio converter ..030/50  with a bit of fiddling with a few settings  plays  them very good  ..8 bit wavs  sound ok an are less on the cpu time..

[AAACHIPSET]

After reading a few posts about MP3 files taking up CPU power, I have decided to get all my MP3 music files and convert them.
BUT to what? In other words what is the best to convert to and still maintaning some sort of reasonable quality, and using much less CPU power.

TIA,

Mike.

i just converted disc 1 of war of the worlds from a cd to mp3 using windows media player then to 16 bit wav using freemake audio converter then burnt on a disc using nero ..then playing on my 1200 using amigaamp ..computers ..amazing things

[AAACHIPSET]

Wait... You did whát?!? Why would you convert a cd to mp3 (=losing quality) and then back to cd?

I can understand you want to make a copy of a cd, but then simply make a 1:1 copy of it. MP3 is an ok (but not great) format for many purposes, but as it is a lossy format you always get a lesser quality compared to the original. Because of that, you should never use mp3 as a source again, which in your case you did by making a new audio cd by converting mp3 to 16 bit wav.

What you should have done: rip the original cd to 16 bit wav, burn a new cd using the wav-files. Skip the conversion to mp3. Or make a direct 1:1 copy of the original cd. The end result will be the same in both cases.

put on cd just cause there big files...did transfer to harddrive flash drive ..a little faster but until i add a 32 gig card  not enuff room ...wow  ..4 gig drive on an amiga an im still running out of room ..havent  tried playing from usb thought would be slow..
dont  normally play music on 1200 ..got a tv next to it an a dvd an cd32 player on the other side  ..normally watch a movie on the dvd player while foxtel is on the tv an just playin with the 1200 in the middle..an the computer online in the lounge room  ..thats why i want to put the 1200 on a network to my pc ..yet to work that out..

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yeah there was something about my amiga playing war of the worlds ..was the rage when i was a young warthog ..!