Quote Originally Posted by Mr Peabody
It sure did, I got my Zen Stone in yesterday and stayed up half the night trying to get it going to try out today. For some reason I had to click "shuffle" to get things rolling. I clicked on the Stone in WMP and it showed all the files and showed them being converted before "sync" and the status.

The Stone is a great little gizmo if you want simple operation. If I can get all the quirks ironed out with interfacing/operation with my computer I'll have it made. Most of it is probably dumb operator error.

The sound is definitely not CD quality but tolerable for portable use. I really enjoyed it more than I thought. No more searching for a good song or channel hopping during commercials.
Cool. Curious...is there a way to select a quality setting for the transcoded WMA? like 128 kb or vbr or something? It's been so long since I used Windows Media Player, I don't remember. It took me awhile to figure how to do that in Amarkok. I'm slowly in the process of converting all my files to FLAC on my Linux machine - seems to be the only format that my wife's Vista box, my Mac, and my Linux box can all agree on without any hick-ups. The nice thing about a lossless format like FLAC or WMA lossless is that this should be the last time you ever need to rip your music. Of course Murphy's Law tends to challenge that notion.

For whatever reason I found myself every year or so for the last few years having to do that to 300 + CD's. I started with 128 kb mp3's, then went up to 192, then to 128 WMA vbr (approx), then 192 vbr WMA's, etc as my storage has increased over the last 6 years or so.

Just this past week I've messed around with FLAC, WMA Lossless and ALAC (Apple's lossless codec). Went with FLAC because everything seems to support it with little hassle and because I'm still on my anti-Windows rant. Always liked WMA and WMP though...