Converting WMA to MP3...

[mattcharles]

anyone know of a good program that can do that?

[NightTran]

anyone know of a good program that can do that?

I am not sure they good or not but you still can look through these

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=WMA+to+MP3&btnG=Search

[anonymez]

foobar2k

[drfsupercenter]

Nero Wave Editor can, if you have that as well.

[blutach]

I actually have a prog called Advanced WMA Workshop - I think it has a trial.

Regards

[katzdvd]

Hi matt,

<B>Goldwave Audio Editor</B> will do this, as well as batch conversion. Not free, but has a long trial period!

Regards, katz

[drfsupercenter]

I didn't know Audacity could open WMA files, I will have to test it out

I use Nero, that's not free but most people have a version of Nero (even if it's OEM), so that's why I reccomended it.

[katzdvd]

I didn't know Audacity could open WMA files, I will have to test it out

Good catch, drf. It does NOT open those files. I tried & no go. Even trying to import as raw data would not open the wma file.

(I thought audacity could dod everything)!

Goldwave will do it. (trial vers.)

I have edited the above post to reflect this!

regards, katz

[slapbass]

Hi,Matt.
Is there any particular reason why you want to convert wma to mp3.
Regards
Slapbass

[mattcharles]

Because I bought music from the Walmart download store, Brother Bear 2 to be exact and I cannot put it on my MP3 player!
I love the songs!

But I will try out the suggestions you all gave me.

My friend is getting Nero for my birthday!
and it's today.

[drfsupercenter]

OK, I buy from Walmart all the time. They use DRM protection.

There are two choices to this. (well 3 really.)

Choice 1: burn the files to a CD, using Windows Media Player, then rip them as MP3s in your favorite program.

Choice 2: buy the program SoundTaxi (only $15), that will convert them to MP3, and it ignores protection (as far as I know this is the ONLY program that will convert protected files)

Choice 3: find a link to a program called Automate UnDRM (which may be hard because Microsoft complained and got it removed everywhere), that will remove the DRM and give you a non-protected WMA that you can edit with Nero.

[AxiomaticDave]

I use MediaMonkey. It's easy to convert across formats and is freeware.

[mattcharles]

OK, I buy from Walmart all the time. They use DRM protection.

There are two choices to this. (well 3 really.)

Choice 1: burn the files to a CD, using Windows Media Player, then rip them as MP3s in your favorite program.

Choice 2: buy the program SoundTaxi (only $15), that will convert them to MP3, and it ignores protection (as far as I know this is the ONLY program that will convert protected files)

Choice 3: find a link to a program called Automate UnDRM (which may be hard because Microsoft complained and got it removed everywhere), that will remove the DRM and give you a non-protected WMA that you can edit with Nero.

I did burn them to a CD and then I tried to put the back as in MP3 but they didn't sound the same. It loses some quality that way.

Goldwave will not rip it?

Also how do u work that money meida lol

[mattcharles]

Ok Mediamonkey dont work.

and I tried Automate UnDRM and it brought me to FairUse4WM to use instead of that. So I downloaded FairUse4WM and that kept crashing.
What else can I do lol?

[olyteddy]

I use TotalRecorder to handle that converting stuff. It intercepts the data stream from most programs (WMP, iTunes, RealPlayer, whatever) before it gets to the sound card and allows you to re-record it as .wav, .mp3, .ogg, .flac, etc. It will record much faster than realtime, limited only by the serving software and the encoder speed. For example, I trans record my Audible collection to 80 Kb MP3 at about 8x.