Cannot record Audio styles on Mp3

[hans1966]

Hi, I realized yesterday about this little incident yesterday when I tried to record a song using an audio style. The recorder stopped and immediately a message appears: CANNOT RECORD AUDIO STYLES IN MP3 FORMAT.
The strange thing about all this is that I did the same test with the WAV recorder, and I was able to record my song with the audio style. I would like to know why there is not the same possibility in Mp3 ?. It would be great if they included this option in an upcoming update. regards. Hans

[Fred Smith]

Likely because the conversion to MP3 takes too much processor power. You need to record in bc WAV, then convert.

Cheers,
Fred

[hans1966]

Hi Fred, thanks for your timely response. Just one question, is there a possibility to convert WAV to MP3 within the SX900? or it is necessary to do it through the computer. Cheers

[EileenL]

Use something like switch or Audacity both free programmes and easy to use.

[DerekA]

Also some free online websites that convert WAV to MP3 or any other format

[hans1966]

Thank you all for your kind answers. regards.

[Dick Rector]

As Eileen already mentioned, Audacity is a wonderful, complete and FREE program to do this on a computer (and it can do a lot more).

[Roger Brenizer]

Here's the link to Audacity, Hans. 

https://www.audacityteam.org/

[hans1966]

Hi Roger, thanks for the link. much appreciated.