CDtoAACtoPhone
by wiak <wiak@nwgat.net>

Tested on
Sony Ericsson W810i [OK]

Here is why chose AAC

AAC @ 64kbps = 1.97MB
MP3 @ 128kbps = 3.88MB

AAC gives the same qualty @ 64kbps as MP3 do at 128kbps!

The Guide:

Step One:
Find a CD!
and Download BoncEnc from http://www.bonkenc.org/

Step Two:
Organize the files for you walkman!
and chose MP3 or Music if you walkman has it
and change if you cant fine you songs in the walkman player


Step Three
Set you bitrate/quality

note: i recommend setting it to 64kbps as it gives you a nice filesize vs quality compaired to mp3s

Step Four
Select output to MP4


Step Five
Click on Encode > Start Encoding FAAC MP4/AAC Encoder

@wiak



Good show on the guide, but I'll just move it to the appropriate section.

Thanks for this guide. I use m4a all the time now and it works fine with a playlist.

Nice guide T think i'll give it a go sometime

Scotsboy you moved this to hardware how tos and this is software

@CrazyJ

The How-To forum is basically for all guides. It was originally in the Technical section, but that has been split into Firmware and Hardware now. You could always upload this guide to the wiki though (hint hint).

lol yeh i was gunna use m4a once

but i was too lazy to change all my music. plus it dont kepp the tags which i need to know wat artists are which specially with new music

@ Scotsboy

Why is it always my responsibility to put guides on the wiki??? I think you should as you are a moderator and I am not (can't think of a better reason )

I might do when I get a few minutes

Since I tend to dload mp3 at 192kbps or higher I go for a higher encoding rate for aac/m4a.

I use dBPowerAMP Music Converter, which has a plugin to access the Nero Digital Audio AAC Encoder. I normalize the volume to 100% and then transcode/encode to 88kbps aac/m4a. (I found 80 kbps introducing some very subtle distortion, and 96 kbps wasn't really buying me anything in terms of audio quality. So, I created a custom entry into the aac encoder option file for 88 kbps. This gave me CD, or very near CD, quality at a good file size.)

Anyone interested in dBpowerAMP Music Converter can find it here: http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

The aac/m4a codecs for it can be found here: http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-mp4.htm

Thanks for the info BTW i use MP3 PRO CODEC to compress.. petty good .

I used to convert mp3 to 3gp(yes, but i disabled the video) but the quality was bad.

.mp3 = 4.5MB
.3gp = 870KB

Yeah...

i think 3gp uses ARM low bitrate by default
you should use AAC its way better