Audacity Forum

Hello,

I have just a simple question. My Zune has stopped working for my main desktop computer. Every time I connect it with USB, it keeps giving me the connect and disconnect sound every two seconds.

So, as a moderator on the Zune Scene forum mentioned, I tried connecting my Zune to my laptop and it connected fine without the sounds going off and on and Windows 7 even recommended an update to fix the issue.

I'm gonna transfer all my songs from my desktop computer to my laptop by either transferring them through AIM or possibly just connecting a CAT 4 network cable between the two computers.

Anyway, which way of transferring my songs should I do? Through AIM or through CAT4?

If I copy and paste audio or even transfer the songs through AIM, will the quality of the songs decrease?

I ask this because I have high quality WAVS and mostly 320 kbps MP3's of albums and records I have.

If I also copy and paste songs, will it decrease the quality of my original songs on my desktop computer.


I ask this because I'm somewhat of an audiophile about quality sometimes and this was on my mind. Thanks for bearing with the somewhat ridiculous question!

Transfering data does not loose quality, but decoding and re-encoding into a lossy format does reduce quality.
Not being a Zune user I don't know if Zune will allow you to directly transfer data or if it is decoded/re-encoded during the transfer process.
You may also need to check if there are any issues concerning DRM licenses.

if you really like quality you wouldnt use mp3

no idea what zune aim and that other stuff is

if you just copy files they will be fine
whether cat3 cat4 cat5 cat6 wifi cdrom memorystick or sneakernet

if you move them from ap to ap they may lose quality
depending what the aps do with them

Anything that sends your work up to the internet is going to take forever. Much better transfer with a local cable, or, if your computers are networked, open one on the other and transfer that way. Start the transfer. Go to bed.

It will be far faster with a portable drive or a thumb drive and that will give you a backup copy of the work.

As a rough, fuzzy rule, watch the file sizes and make sure they're exactly the same at both ends. A file that suddenly gains or loses in size has been "managed" somehow.

It's possible to transfer files between two very different size systems and the files will change very slightly. That's just how computers manage their drives. But half and double is a major problem.

Koz