wma to mp3?

WillowTheWhisp · 12-11-2004, 08:10

Does anyone know of a program (dowload maybe?) which can convert wma files to mp3?

entwisi · 12-11-2004, 08:46

You don't want to do it. Both are lossy formats so the end result will sound awful. Same goes for Ogg.

Rip it again and encode as MP3 or Ogg.

Ian

Poodle · 12-11-2004, 08:56

tis true however if your stuck with some downloaded wma files then i do have at home somewhere some audio conversion software that does most formats to most formats, ill try and remember when i get home to have a look

WillowTheWhisp · 12-11-2004, 09:03

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Originally Posted by entwisi

Rip it again and encode as MP3 or Ogg.

Not sure I can do that. I'm a bit woolly at times. Once I get the hang of what I'm doing I'm OK but It takes me a while. I just got the new version of WMP and I'm already baffled by things not being where they were before.

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Originally Posted by Poodle

tis true however if your stuck with some downloaded wma files then i do have at home somewhere some audio conversion software that does most formats to most formats, ill try and remember when i get home to have a look

Thanks Poodle. I appreciate that. I've got some things on here which are wma and I'd like them to be mp3. I hope I'll be able to follow it. If I can't then Busman probably will although I think he depairs of me at times. I do a lot of thinking and dithering where he pushes buttons and worries about it later. (Not that I'm saying anything about the half a program I've been left with on here.

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entwisi · 12-11-2004, 10:55

Get some different ripping software(and playing software but then most people know I don't liek Microsoft, Winamp is Nice, Realplayer is full of spyware), Audiograbber is meant to be OK for windows. You can get it at Tucows or download.com

Ian

Poodle · 12-11-2004, 13:02

for ripping audio to mp3 although audio grabber is fine it only grabs and you need to attach an encoder to it. there is a version of audiograbber called audio catalyst which containcts the mp3 encoder by xing and everything you needs so its just simpler to use at the end of the day.

I have to agree winamp is the thing to playback your music and when you have installed it dont forget to check out www.di.fm

vorlon24 · 24-11-2004, 12:16

I have used cdex in the past to convert .wav to mp3 but it was awhile ago and I don't know where you'll find it now, but possibly a google search will find it.

I don't know if it converts .wma files though...

WillowTheWhisp · 24-11-2004, 14:11

Hey thanks for all the advice folks.

I decided the laziest/easiest way was to burn the thing to CD and then re-rip it.

entwisi · 24-11-2004, 20:30

Err this is not going to help you in the quality stakes.

When you burn the WMAs back to Audio CD the inforamtion that was lost during conversion to WMA is still missing. When you then rip to MP3 it loses some more info.

You need to 'aquire' an original copy or get a first gen MP3 version of it.

Ian

WillowTheWhisp · 24-11-2004, 22:13

If the original had had any sort of "quality" in the first place I see what you mean.