OK - Here is the story of my woes;

I have many mp3 files encoded at a high bitrates on my computer and I want to use the built-in sync feature in wmp10 to transfer them to my X5. In order to conserve space I have set it to re-encode the files to 64kbs. This worked well for listening to the music with wmp, but now I want to move to a program like gsplayer.

My problem is that wmp10 converted all of my mp3's to wma's which gsplayer cannot play. I've tinkered with the settings in wmp, but I cannot stop it from automatically converting the files.
Short of manually converting and transferring the music, is there another way I can get low-bitrate mp3's on my axim with wmp10 or another program?

“This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.” -John Steinbeck

There's a plugin for WMPlayer (should work for 10) that downsamplers mp3 and wma files.

I just realized a possible solution...

I believe that I can use Musicmatch's "convert" function to lower the bitrate of all my mp3's and have it export the new files to my storage card automatically!

I'll have to try it when I get home, but I can't see why it wouldn't work...

“This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.” -John Steinbeck

Does the Portable Device Manager in MM work for you? I have 8.2 and it doesn't recognize my xv50. I was wondering if MM10 is any better... otherwise I'll have to synch all my music by hand

I am using MMJ version 8 and it recognizes my Axim X5. As far as which program is better: If you like wma than by all means go with wmp10 for syncronizing. I never used the PDM in Musicmatch, but if you need to convert mp3's and copy them onto your X50v, I would use musicmatch.

This is what I did:

1. Put my SD card (which I keep my music on) in a card reader hooked directly to my computer.
2. Started up Musicmatch and went to the File => Covert files function.
3. Found my Music folder and selected the files I wanted converted.
4. Chose my SD card as the destination directory.
5. Chose a low bitrate (64kbps) for the converted files.
6. Selected "Start".

Musicmatch, with time, converted and copied all the music right onto the SD card. After it finished I simply took the card out of the reader and slapped it into my X5. Viola!

I used a card reader to speed up the copying due to Activesync's slow transfer speeds. Also, I don't believe musicmatch can see a storage card in your Axim when it is cradled. Someone correct me if I am wrong.

By using MMJ's conversion function instead of wmp 10's convertion function, I was able to avoid the automatic conversion of my mp3's to wma's while simultaneously converting the music to a more sutable bitrate for my pda.

“This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.” -John Steinbeck