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Stephen Hammond · #1 (**permalink**) 29-12-2004, 05:48 PM

Not being very technically minded, which format is best when using my 2210 as an mp3 player? I have heard that windows media player is not the best and that I should also use the .mps format when ripping from CD. Many thanks for your help

**Stevie** · #2 (**permalink**) 30-12-2004, 02:05 PM

i use windows media player and not found any problems, i play standard mp3 based files. There is a few programs out there that are like winamp for PPC. check on www.handango.com

Hrun · #3 (**permalink**) 30-12-2004, 09:59 PM

I believe MP3 compresses more than WMA and can be read by more progs/devices. WMA ties you to using windows products, more or less.

HTH

Giles

DaveA · #4 (**permalink**) 03-01-2005, 11:10 AM

You might find this of interest - it is primarily related to iPODs, but is still of interest...
First, a little background. An iPod is an MP3 player, which means (duh!) that music must be in MP3 format (or AAC, AIFF or WAV) to work. Okay --- not really a problem, except that alot of what is happening in (legal) digital music is happening in Windows Media Audio (WMA). Why WMA and not MP3? Because WMA includes security measures that allow the publisher to restrict what you do with the music. For example, one publisher may allow you to store the song file on three computers, a digital music player and to burn three CDs. Another publisher may allow ten computer copies and ten CD copies. So WMA offers record labels more control over their digital properties than MP3 does.