Posted by NRen2k5 on 11/17/23 11:43

NRen2k5 wrote:
> Charles Russell wrote:
>> What formats does the Zen player support? I had no luck trying to
>> find on the web detailed specifications of supported file formats
>> for the different players, even for Apple. The Ipod my kids gave
>> me for Christmas handles 16 kHz and even 11.025 kHz, as does the
>> Goldwave audio editor. If I had been spending my own money and
>> gotten a cheaper MP3 player, would I be unable to play my highly
>> compressed low-fidelity voice files directly without reformatting
>> to bigger files?
>
> I'll check with my Zen Micro tonight. It's the Zen's smaller-capacity
> sister, and the two should be identical in every way apart from
> their capacity.
>
> - NRen2k5

I just finished my little test.

*Description of test*

I used LAME 3.97b2, using these commandlines:
-V2 --vbr-new --resample 48000
-V2 --vbr-new
-V2 --vbr-new --resample 32000
-V2 --vbr-new --resample 24000
-V2 --vbr-new --resample 22050
-V2 --vbr-new --resample 16000
-V2 --vbr-new --resample 11025
-V2 --vbr-new --resample 8000

This gave me an MP3 at each possible sampling rate - 48kHz, 44.1kHz,
32kHz, 24kHz, 22.05kHz, 16kHz, 11.025kHz and 8kHz. I loaded all of these
onto my Creative Zen Micro (manufactured 2005, with the firmware version
2.21.02 installed) using the provided "MediaSource Organizer" software.

*Test results*

Surprisingly, every sampling rate played properly *except for one* -
11.025kHz. That's right - everything from 48kHz on down to 16kHz played
properly, and so did 8kHz, but *not* 11.025kHz, for some reason.

The 11.025kHz file *did* play, but in slow motion.

- NRen2k5

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