12-23-2004, 03:00 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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Audio Encoding Goodness: Embrace "CD to Mobile"
"CD to Mobile is a desktop PC application for your Pocket PC and Smartphone. "CD to Mobile" is compatible with any Windows powered Mobile device - Pocket PC or Windows Smartphone."
The folk who make the popular PocketMusic Player have put their minds together to deliver a brand new product designed to ease the process of transferring music from CD to Pocket PC. "CD to Mobile" supports the encoding of CDs to the well-known MP3, WMA, OGG, and WAV formats, and it also allows you to transfer them straight to your storage card. Simple! Fitted with a host of options to optimise the encoding process, "CD to Mobile" appears to deliver the goods! It is available from Handango for $24.95. A trial version is also available. [Affiliate]
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12-23-2004, 03:24 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 65
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Maybe I'm missing something here but it seems awfully ridiculous to charge $24.95 for something that anyone could do for free.
Sure it might have a snazzy interface and be a little more streamlined but I'm pretty happy with the WMP10 for ripping to MP3 or WMA and loading onto a CF or SD is a piece of cake. I'd rather spend the $24.95 to extra storage.
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12-23-2004, 03:34 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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I think you could liken it to a lot of the DVD to PPC applications out there. There are free solutions available, but for those new to the game or for those after an all-in-one, effortless program that does it all in a matter of minutes, this program would deliver the goods. Some may spend that bit of money purely to satisfy the need for simplicity in audio encoding to mobile devices.
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12-23-2004, 04:29 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 7
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<pedantic>
Editors-In-Training should learn to at least appear not to be sucking up to (potential) advertisers. What you say about this app is all correct. But there is correct, and then there is true: and what's true is that this app, as described, is a rip-off. It's not just that there exist free solutions, but that several free solutions (I'm thinking EAC, CDEx, and dbPowerAMP) are simply the best solutions available at any price. They're not at all hard to use, either. And, like silver99 said, transferring encoded tracks to SD or CF is so easy to do by "hand" that having a program do it automatically is worth exactly nothing.
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12-23-2004, 04:41 PM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by frogblast
Editors-In-Training should learn to at least appear not to be sucking up to (potential) advertisers
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Insulting posts are strongly discouraged here. Please stick to the topic and stop criticizing the staff. If you think it's not worth it, fine. Darius wasn't telling you that *you* have to buy it, merely pointing out why *someone* *might* want to buy it. There's a big difference, and it was part of the discussion, not "sucking up."
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12-23-2004, 04:43 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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Originally Posted by frogblast
snippity-snip-snip-snip
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Okay, here are the facts, simple and straight. 
Fact: Yes, this application may be $24.95
Fact: Yes, there are free applications out there that do the exact same thing.
Fact: They aren't hard to use as you said.
Fact: Go out and expose yourself to the general community and I'm willing to bet that there is at least one person out there who does not know how to operate these free applications, regardless of their abundant feature set or simplicity of use. If it really were THAT easy for every single person on this planet, I don't think Handango would be tallying up 280 downloads of the application thus far.
Audio encoding is simple. You get a donut for that pointer, but the fact is, not every single person is as technologically minded as some of us. Before you decide to jump on the bandwagon and rant on about sucking up and what not, I think you should assess the facts and think about it a little more.
But anyway, let's get back on topic for the benefit of others, shall we? 
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12-23-2004, 04:53 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 298
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by Darius Wey
Audio encoding is simple. You get a donut for that pointer...
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Zing!
:lol:
That said, I do think this app is a rip off.
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12-23-2004, 05:19 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 323
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Rip off is a matter of opinion here.
Some people might find advantages to this.
Me though? I wouldn't spend a cent on this because I find the other options to be for financially feasible. If someone new is willing to read a 5 minute tutorial then they can save themselves $25! If your time is worth more than $25 congrats and are you hiring?!!!!!!!
Remeber. Water is free and people pay $1 a bottle for the stuff!
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12-23-2004, 07:29 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 797
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I wouldn't buy this period. However, my father who loves tech and is technically not as up to speed as most, would love this.
$25 for an app to take away the process of copying files to memory cards for people that know nothing about file management (usually the types that say if I put something here, can I open it in word?) is fine with me.
People who don't need it will ignore it. People who do will love it.
Think folks; how many apps are there for tweaking registry settings? We know how to do it, and aren't afraid of a few registry edits, but other people like these nice little all in ones.
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12-23-2004, 10:03 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 51
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Rip off? �To each is own�..I see some potential here if it works like I'm understanding it to. 8O
If anybody has used this I have two questions?
This will move audio files right into the storage card?
Also will it do any type of media library type management or is it just a converter of files? Say I have all my MP3's and I pick which ones I want (after they've been encoded on my hard dive) and sync those?
I'm test stuff out for syncing podcast.
Thanks,
JayM
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