p3 error message when transferring VBR WMA files

[AlexMck]

I have all my music encoded in 240-355kbps variable bit rate WMA files, ripped from CD using windows media player. When I copy them over to the p3 (drag-and-drop in windows xp), I get a message saying "The file "xxxx.wma" has one or more properties outside of the device limits. If possible, use a media program that can convert the file before copying it. If you copy the file now, it will be stored on the device, but may not be presented in the device user interface. Do you wish to copy the file to the device anyway?" If I click yes, it copies the file over and it plays perfectly. This error message does not appear when I use non-VBR wma files which are encoded at 128kbps. Does anyone know why this message comes up?

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[AlexMck]

whoops, put it in the wrong place. can a moderator move it please?

[Marvin the Martian]

Originally Posted by AlexMck

I have all my music encoded in 240-355kbps variable bit rate WMA files, ripped from CD using windows media player. When I copy them over to the p3 (drag-and-drop in windows xp), I get a message saying "The file "xxxx.wma" has one or more properties outside of the device limits. If possible, use a media program that can convert the file before copying it. If you copy the file now, it will be stored on the device, but may not be presented in the device user interface. Do you wish to copy the file to the device anyway?" If I click yes, it copies the file over and it plays perfectly. This error message does not appear when I use non-VBR wma files which are encoded at 128kbps. Does anyone know why this message comes up?

My guess is perhaps the P3 only supports wma up to 320kbps. I bet if you just went down one quality setting to the 135-215 setting, it would work. And I doubt you would hear a difference, and you'd save a lot of space too.

[triarii117]

I use 290kbps or whatever, WMA pro (5.1 surround I think...), but when I sync to my Zen, it converts it. After it converts, I put them on the P3, no problems.

[Dreamnine]

My wma vbr go past 400kbps and play fine. Just ignore the message - I got the same message and ignored it.

Since when did wma stop at 320?

[triarii117]

Regular WMA and WMA pro stop at 192kbps. In the options, for VBR it says it goes from 196 to 320kbps, but that's not really true.

[Dreamnine]

About a year-and-a-half ago, I ripped a load of CDs I no longer have to wma vbr at the highest rate. They're anything from 300 up to 420kbps. They work fine on both my players.

[ebyss]

I have been getting the same message for all my .flac files when transferring them over.

I'm still transferring media (first time load), so haven't tested if they play yet.

Is this quite a common error message then?

Looks like it may be resolved by switching over to UMS?

[Dreamnine]

Yeah, just ignore it.