What media formats do I have to use to prevent Zune from having to convert media for Windows Phone?

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Published on 2011-04-20T22:35:17Z Indexed on 2011/06/27 8:25 UTC
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Zune is able to accept pretty much every media format under the sun, or at least can once someone's installed something like the KLite Codec Pack. However, it does do conversion on your behalf to a more supported format when you try to sync the contents over the Windows Phone.

I'd like to not have to wait for the really slow process of doing the conversion... how do I know which media format to download?

(For example, there are 5 media formats available for each of the MIX sessions....)

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