choosing bit rates for copying

[Chris P.]

Hello. I would like to copy a bunch of CD's to my hard
drive using WMP's mathematically lossless formatting for
a bit rate choice. Unfortunately as you know, this takes
up waaaaaaaay too much room. I understand that I could
get away with a lower bit rate. What I'm wondering is
there anyway to compress the .wma files after they've
been ripped to my hard drive and still have them be
functional, or are they already as compressed as they're
gonna get by default(post rip, that is).
Thanks, --chris.

 

[Chris Lanier]

Re-rip the CD's. If you try and convert a WMA or any other compressed
format after the fact you will loss quality.