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| 237125 | 2004-05-17 07:15:00 | Greetings All, I want to convert a Wma file to Mp3, can anyone tell me how I should do this? What program will I have to use? Thanks Rob. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 237126 | 2004-05-17 07:45:00 | http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ | godfather (25) | ||
| 237127 | 2004-05-17 08:25:00 | GodFather, Thanks for the prompt reply. I have d/l dBpowerAMP Music Converter and installed it. However, even though I open the file containing the Wma file using the Converter there is no file to be seen. On a closer inspection of the options by "Files of type", in the window 'Select Music files to Convert', there is no Wma option! So I do not know what to do next. I can see all the Mp3 files in the same folder but the one Wma that I want to convert seems not to be present. I made a copy of the Wma and put it into a new folder and then looked again but it is definitely not appearing in the Converter window. Do you have any idea what I am doing wrongly? Rob. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 237128 | 2004-05-17 08:34:00 | Did you read the page in the link? Or just rush into the download! The part about codec downloads? (www.dbpoweramp.com) That will take you to a download for wma and other codecs. Beyond that I cannot help, as I have not used it for wma. Google suggests it works. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 237129 | 2004-05-17 08:42:00 | Yes I did read it but I will do that again, I have just d/l the player as well, maybe it will play the file with all the other Mp3's and then I won't have to convert as the problem is just that. I want to be able to load up my music files and play them all without having to change players to do that. A the moment I use WinAmp 2.91 and it does not seem to be able to play Wma although there is probably a codec for that as well. Thanks so much for your help. Rob. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 237130 | 2004-05-17 08:53:00 | If you are still having problems than I strongly recommend you check out dbpoweramp's forum (http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/). Use the search feature to speed things up. | aNtzy (4070) | ||
| 237131 | 2004-05-17 08:56:00 | I think the minimal version of Winamp 5 has support for WMA files, but I can't really remember. I wouldn't suggest converting between any lossless audio codecs (such as MP3, WMA, AAC, OGG Vorbis). Each codec discards audio information in order to compress it better, so your WMA file has already lost some quality to be encoded. Converting it to MP3 will only cause further loss of quality (even if it is barely audible). Ideally, you would want to get an original, uncompressed source and encode that to a lossy format, rather than convert between lossy formats. |
agent (30) | ||
| 237132 | 2004-05-17 09:07:00 | I understand what you have said about lossy formats and conversions. I am using WinAmp ver5 full but it cannot play Wma as far as I can see. I will have to d/l a suitable codec. I have to go out now so possibly I will continue this saga later. Thanks Rob. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 237133 | 2004-05-17 09:23:00 | When you run the installer for Winamp, somewhere along the installation process you are able to choose to install extra codecs. I would reccommend that you untick Winamp Agent, it is hardly necessary. You want to make sure that you have at least, under the Audio File Support category, Windows Media Audio (WMA). Encoding support is not really necessary, CD playback is nice, CDDB recognition isn't necessary, WAV support is nice, and the rest are largely for formats you are unlikely to encounter. Under the Extra Audio Output/Effect Support category, you may like to install DirectSound support. |
agent (30) | ||
| 237134 | 2004-05-17 22:45:00 | Using Windows Explorer, go to 'Illustrate/dBpowerAMP/Compression' and you should have the file 'Windows Media Audio V9.dll' codec, if not download it. | Slim (4633) | ||
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