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convert wma to MP3

Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 7:37 pm
by thewolfe
Looking for a free converter.

Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 7:47 pm
by Isaac

Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 7:50 pm
by thewolfe
If I could only read the webpage.

Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 7:59 pm
by Krom
If you can get foobar2000 to play it, odds are pretty good its converter can transcode it.

Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 8:05 pm
by thewolfe
Thanks, I'll give it a try.

Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 8:44 pm
by thewolfe
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.

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:22 am
by TechPro
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/

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:29 am
by Krom
It needs the lame binaries which the latest versions can be found here: http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-lame-bundle.php

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:29 am
by Isaac
I use ogg instead of mp3, whenever possible.

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:41 am
by thewolfe
That did it TechPro/Krom, thanks.

Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 4:21 pm
by thewolfe
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.

Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 6:50 pm
by Xamindar
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.

Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 10:04 am
by thewolfe
This is being used for a friend who has a Nook and wanted to see how music sounded on it.

Thanks.