Thunder Bird

Musikone I've revisited the problem and have found I can convert as I did before by altering 2 values Minimum Bitrate was increased from 16 to 32 kbps Quality was reduced from 2 to 3 and everything is now working as before As I had not written these values down I was doing it from memory Did not think reducing Minimum Bitrate from 32 to 16 kbps would be so critical Or increasing quality from 3 to 2 either Original file was at a variable bitrate - Maximum Bitrate (320 kbps) - No idea on Minimum Bitrate Changing the 2 values mentioned above my 320 variable bitrate MP3 file conversions to 112 variable bitrate are now producing stereo MP3 files The original file's sampling rate was the "standard" 44.1 khz This same sampling rate has been preserved through the bit rate conversion process (Had to reduce Quality from 2 to 3 to preserve this value) Raises the question what is the lowest maximum bitrate coupled with the lowest minimum bitrate you can use and still produce stereo MP3 files (not forgetting the Quality setting) Thank you for your help

Have tried converting several MP3 files of 320 kbps to 112kbps. These original MP3 files are all stereo. MP3 Encoder Settings Channels - Stereo Variable Bitrate - selected Minimum Bitrate (kbps) - 16 Maximum Bitrate (kbps) - 112 Quality - 2 Converted files are all resulting in a Mono format e.g. original MP3 file size 3.892 MB at 320 kbps results in a Mono switched file of 1.132 MB at 96 kbps ?? Have tried several files with similar results. Reinstalled Switch but results still the same. Have tried same conversion at Maximum Bitrate of 128 kbps but to no avail results were still mono MP3 files. Have previously done this conversion with little or no problems. At a loss to understand what has changed Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Using Switch I have converted some of my CD collection to MP3 files and now find that all files from certain CD's (not all CD's) will not play using Windows Media Player. I get a Media Player Error ID = 0xC00D1199. Windows Media Player cannot play the file. You may encounter this error message for one of the following reasons: The file type is not supported by the Player. The following table lists the file types supported by the Player. If the file type you are trying to play is included in this table, then the file may have been encoded by using a codec that is not supported by Windows Media Player. If this is the case, Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The file type is supported by the Player, but the file was compressed by using a codec that is not supported by the Player. Other CD's that I have converted to MP3 with Switch play on Windows Media Player without a problem. However when I use Winamp the files that would not play using Media Player play fine with no problems.

I am having a very similar problem see examples below: Original File 1 - 2,870KB 133kbs bitrate 0:02:56 Duration converted with Switch became Switch. File 1 - 4,282KB 112kbs bitrate 0:05:15 Duration (the extra duration becoming 0:02:19 of silence at the end of the song Original File 2 - 3,960KB 145kbs bitrate 0:03:43 Duration converted with Switch became Switch. File 2 - 5,909KB 112kbs bitrate 0:07:18 Duration (the extra duration becoming 0:03:35 of silence at the end of the song Original File 3 - 4,580KB 143kbs bitrate 0:04:21 Duration converted with Switch became Switch. File 3 - 6,827KB 112kbs bitrate 0:08:24 Duration (the extra duration becoming 0:04:03 of silence at the end of the song Have several similar examples which are available if anyone wishes to test this result Will now have to check all results for similar problems. Up until recently Switch was performing well. Wonder now if it is worth upgrading to the plus version.