Best Free m4a - MP3 Convertor
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it's not really a good idea to convert from one lossy format to another. the information that has been lost during the original encode won't suddenly come back just because you're choosing a higher bitrate. 
if you absolutely must re-encode (say you have a hardware player that can't play m4a) then foobar can do it (you'll need to download the lame mp3 encoder separately). also, many people around these parts recommend dbpoweramp but i think you have to pay for that.
if you absolutely must re-encode (say you have a hardware player that can't play m4a) then foobar can do it (you'll need to download the lame mp3 encoder separately). also, many people around these parts recommend dbpoweramp but i think you have to pay for that.
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I'd just typed out something that was almost word-for-word the same as the above reply, so I'll just add that if you find foobar2000 a bit complex to set up, iTunes is another option.
I'm not sure from your post if you actually want to transcode from WMA or m4a(AAC), but you could also check out MediaCoder which will handle a variety of formats.
I'm not sure from your post if you actually want to transcode from WMA or m4a(AAC), but you could also check out MediaCoder which will handle a variety of formats.
Audacity and the LAME encoder!... works for me when making ringtones and other such stuff!
can that do whole albums/folders worth of tracks at once? i thought it was for editing single files?
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Yes, in theory at least, although the loss may or may not be audible in practice.
Out of interest, why do you want to convert to MP3 when iTunes plays .m4a files natively?
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Mp3Tag works with .m4a (and pretty much everything else). So does foobar2000, but it doesn't handle embedded album art, if that's an issue for you.
edit: marc2003, I'm going to slap you in a minute...
