Needed WMA to MP3 Converter

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 23 Oct 2005 5:47 am

I was sent a few song files in WMA format.
Altough I can play them using Windows Media Player, the tools I use to work on audio can not import WMAs.

I need to convert them to MP3 or Wav.

Any recomeditions for a (hopefully free) converter?

TYVM

Bill Crook · Post by **Bill Crook** » 23 Oct 2005 6:50 am

Joey.............

Record them over to tape,then pull them back into the computer, Write them back out as MP3 or wave-file. I have done this on more than 1 occasion and you don't loose anything.

I use GoldWave and I can EQ the resultant MP3 as I feel needed.

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Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 23 Oct 2005 7:00 am

Joey---Goldwave can open WMA's and then you can just save them as MP3s of whatever quality you want.

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 23 Oct 2005 7:18 am

I use dBpowerAMP (free download).

Edward Efira · Post by **Edward Efira** » 23 Oct 2005 9:15 am

Joey,
on the mac you can use audio hijack or audio hijack pro from Rogue Amoebia. It will rcord anything you play on your computer and let you choose whichever output format you want (AIFF, MP3 and such).
Ed

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richard burton · Post by **richard burton** » 23 Oct 2005 9:16 am

http://www.wma-to-mp3.net/

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 23 Oct 2005 1:13 pm

I have db poweramp and suggested that to someone on another forum a couple of months ago and got a report back that it is no longer a free download.

Lou[NE] · Post by **Lou[NE]** » 23 Oct 2005 2:45 pm

If you have recording software that can record from your sound card (I use Total Recorder) you can play the file with Media Player and re-record it as a .wav. I've done this with Real Player files that I wanted to burn to disc.

Hope this helps,

Lou

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 24 Oct 2005 2:21 am

If you have the capability to record "what you hear", you can play it and re-record it at the same time.

Another option is connect a jumper cable between the Line out and Line In on the sound card, then play it and record it at the same time, if your sound card will support that (normally "full duplex" cards will support that).

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 24 Oct 2005 6:52 am

although it costs a few bucks..Cool Edit Pro can open pretty much any music file and re-save it in pretty much any format.

Plus it allows you to EDIT !

duh !
http://www.adobe.com/special/products/audition/syntrillium.html [This message was edited by Tony Prior on 24 October 2005 at 07:54 AM.]

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 24 Oct 2005 5:50 pm

Thanks everyone.
I did it with dBpowerAMP, per Earnest's post.

Nice FREE software!

Post by **Brad Bechtel** » 25 Oct 2005 11:09 am

iTunes will do this conversion on the Windows platform, but not on the Macintosh platform. For that you need EasyWMA.

Dave Burr · Post by **Dave Burr** » 25 Oct 2005 1:42 pm

I have a Windows Media Player plugin (CinePlayer by Sonic Solutions) that allows me to rip to MP3's. Actually, the plugin will allow me to rip to WMA or MP3. Depends on how I have the option selected.

Respectfully,
Dave Burr[This message was edited by Dave Burr on 25 October 2005 at 02:44 PM.]