03-21-2006, 01:42 AM
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WMA to MP3 conversion
I've got 20gigs of WMA music that needs to be converted to MP3. Does anyone know of a good program that will convert it quickly?
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03-21-2006, 02:12 AM
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Don't have my usb drive hooked right up to check but have used roxio and Music Match Jukebox Plus to do it before. Did it once in WMP9 but can't find it in 10 right now. Most burning software will do it but you have to find the app which can be a pain sometimes. Also if you have more then one program check each as some keep tags intact while some do not.
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03-21-2006, 08:14 AM
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Out of curiosity, why are you converting it?
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03-21-2006, 09:30 AM
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CDex... I think. It works wonderfully and is easy to use. Actually I've only ripped from CD with it, but I'm certain it converts between file formats too.
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03-21-2006, 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Out of curiosity, why are you converting it?
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I think i'm going to buy an iPod. I've been looking at players for a year...I can't get the one I want in Canada. So i'm pretty much gonna say screw and buy the bloody iPod...I've read they want nothing to do with wma files.
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03-21-2006, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Deelow
I think i'm going to buy an iPod. I've been looking at players for a year...I can't get the one I want in Canada. So i'm pretty much gonna say screw and buy the bloody iPod...I've read they want nothing to do with wma files.
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Ahhh. Where did you get the wma's? If you ripped them from your own collection it may take longer but it would sound better if you re-did it. If you bought them then you may have to get around the DRM.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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03-21-2006, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Ahhh. Where did you get the wma's? If you ripped them from your own collection it may take longer but it would sound better if you re-did it. If you bought them then you may have to get around the DRM.
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Agreed. Converting from one compressed file format to another is going to leave you with crappy sound quality
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03-21-2006, 01:26 PM
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I use Adobe Audition, but that might be a leap way past what you need as it's a music recording program... and I hate mp3's, stick with .wav!
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03-21-2006, 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by sec304
I use Adobe Audition, but that might be a leap way past what you need as it's a music recording program... and I hate mp3's, stick with .wav!
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nah, go with .flac
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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03-21-2006, 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
nah, go with .flac
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what the flac? 
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03-21-2006, 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by sec304
what the flac? |
Free Lossless Audio Codec
It still takes up a LOT of space, but not near as much as .wav rips do.
With hard drives getting cheap I've considered ripping all my CDs to .flac then just converting them to MP3 when I want to put them on my iPod.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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03-21-2006, 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Ahhh. Where did you get the wma's? If you ripped them from your own collection it may take longer but it would sound better if you re-did it. If you bought them then you may have to get around the DRM.
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They are ripped from my CDs. ****, that was a big job. Would it be a big quality loss?
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03-21-2006, 02:35 PM
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03-21-2006, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Deelow
They are ripped from my CDs. ****, that was a big job. Would it be a big quality loss?
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Depends on what the original quality was. I did the same thing (ripped my entire collection to WMA 192) now I wish I had gone wav or lossless and converted from there. If you are ripping to mp3 just for ipod use then the quality should not be too bad because you are listening on headphones. I wanted to use mine for my home stereo and non-ipod player so went high bitrate and wma provided the best sound with smallest file. I would have had to go 320bit mp3 to get the same quality.
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03-21-2006, 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Deelow
They are ripped from my CDs. ****, that was a big job. Would it be a big quality loss?
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What CgyCby said, on headphones you may not notice.
Rather than redo a big job, you may want to just try converting a group of songs and then listen to them. If it sounds OK to you, then no worries. If you don't like it then you may want to bite the bullet.
I've heard AAC gives very good compression, but I don't really want to lock into proprietary codecs. I ripped a few CDs to flac, and they were even larger than I expected. However, I do like the idea of ripping once to lossless then being able to just transcode to whatever quality or size I want.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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03-21-2006, 03:19 PM
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Make a few conversions and listen to a few of them.
I'm not sure about WMA->MP3 conversions, but most people who have done real testing, consider MP3 to be the higher quality. I've read where lame encoded MP3s are indistinguishable from cd at 113kbs. The use of Lame is very important though, there are some crappy encoders out there. I've encoded mine using lame at 192, and have exceptionally accurate home speakers, and I can't tell the difference between mp3 and cd, even when really trying to listen for a difference.
When converting WMA > MP3, make sure you pick an app that uses the lame encoder. I assume winlame would obviously.
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03-21-2006, 03:20 PM
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I am not an ipod user but couldn't you use itunes to convert as they go on the ipod? I have a Dell 30gig player and Music Match Jukebox and windows media player allowed me to set the format (mp3 or wma) and bit rate of music to be converted to before transfering/syncing to the device. Download itunes software (free) and see what options it have before going through the whole process. I have 300+ cds ripped and wouldn't want to go through that again.
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03-21-2006, 03:33 PM
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LAME is awesome. I use EAC with Lame for ripping to VBR 192 (variable bit rate - some MP3 players don't like it) and it does a great job. I also had a Slimserver set up and it would use lame to transcode on the fly (Slimserver is a free program you put on your computer, then you use the 'net and a browser to connect to your computer and stream your music from your home system to wherever you are. I use it to stream my home collection to work).
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—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
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03-21-2006, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by CalgaryCowboy
I am not an ipod user but couldn't you use itunes to convert as they go on the ipod?
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Does anyone know the answer to this? I know the iPod won't recognize WMA's I just assumed Apple in general doesn't have anything to do with it.
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