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Whats the best way of convering a lot of wma files to mp3?
Converting wMA -> MP3
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i Use 'Total Audio Converter' will do what you want (as long as the wma files arent protected). Over 30 audio formats supported.
http://www.coolutils.com/TotalAudioConverter
http://www.coolutils.com/TotalAudioConverter
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If you've already got iTunes it can do it as well. In your preferences you need to set MP3 as the encoder, rather than AAC, before adding the WMA files to your library.
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the best way is re-ripping them. im currently going through my cd collection and re-ripping everything i havent already to flac. talk about boring lol
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Build a serial or parallel-controlled robot to change the disks that interfaces with a script used to rip the disks.
EDIT: The more I think about the more awesome it seems to my warped mind! I'd use a wee shell script, probably bash, to call abcde (A Better CD Encoder) which could then do all the heavy lifting including actually ripping the tracks and performing a CDDB lookup to get the metadata for the disk. All the robot would have to do is swing around, pick the disk up, place the disk in the "done" stack, grab a fresh one from the "not done" stack and place it in the drive. Opening and closing the tray could be accomplished in the script with the eject command.
It's a sickness, I know.
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tell you what, you build it for me ill keep swapping them myself until its done lol
ill keep swapping them myself until its done lol
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i tried total audio converter but it seems it doesnt convert the whole song :S
so unfortunatly im gonna have to reburn about 10 cd's due to that.
are there any free programs that convert the whole thing?
so unfortunatly im gonna have to reburn about 10 cd's due to that.
are there any free programs that convert the whole thing?
Google for 'SUPER' and persevere with the website (its very long winded and not that easy to navigate)... It'll convert anything (audio/video) to anything (audio/video).. I've yet to find a format it won't handle!!
Oooh and its FREE!!
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Foobar/mediamonkey, but best of all don't do it because it won't do the tracks any favours...
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wait...nobosy's asked why you want to do it lol. why?
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You don't need reason to hate on WMA.
You don't need reason to hate on WMA.
Another good converter is Media Converter SA Edition - http://www.mediaconverter.org/index.php?s=c&show=downloads
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Want to make a few mp3 cd's for my car, as i dont have an ipod.
If you have the original CDs then just re-rip them using EAC and Lame MP3 Encoder (not the best, but free). If you want to play on the computer FLAC with EAC is the best ripping program I Have found, uses about 250Mb per CD. But seeing as you want to burn the tracks to CD you will want an MP3 (like you said).
If the files have been downloaded convert them using the program that you choose that have been mentioned in this thread.