convert wma to MP3

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 7:37 pm

Looking for a free converter.

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 7:47 pm

http://www.xcfa.tuxfamily.org/

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 7:50 pm

If I could only read the webpage.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 7:59 pm

If you can get foobar2000 to play it, odds are pretty good its converter can transcode it.

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 8:05 pm

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 8:44 pm

Downloaded it, got a wma song to play, right-clicked on the song, clicked on \"Convert\", changed the \"Output Format\" and then I'm lost.

TechPro · Post by **TechPro** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:22 am

You might need the \"Lame\" decoder. Foobar doesn't actually do the decoding, it just easily makes use of the free'y available decoder.

I *think* this link will get you to the Lame decoder: http://lame.sourceforge.net/

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:29 am

It needs the lame binaries which the latest versions can be found here: http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-lame-bundle.php

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:29 am

I use ogg instead of mp3, whenever possible.

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:41 am

That did it TechPro/Krom, thanks.

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 4:21 pm

Downloaded Foobar and the \"lame\" file and couldn't get it to convert on a friends computer so I downloaded
http://www.wma-mp3.org/ and it worked like a charm, first time.

IJust installed it and it worked.

Thanks again for the info.

Xamindar · Post by **Xamindar** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 6:50 pm

Keep in mind you are converting from lossy to lossy. The mp3 will probably sound worse than the wma unless you encode the mp3 at a very high bit rate.

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 10:04 am

This is being used for a friend who has a Nook and wanted to see how music sounded on it.

Thanks.