I need0rz help w/ mp3s & WMA's

How do I convert WMA's into MP3 files?

My overpriced CD player doesn't recognized WMA's burned on a CDR

any progs to help assist this problem, thank you.

[Bobmuhthol]

WTF, CD players recognize WMA, and you'd need an MP3/CD player for it to recognize MP3. It would still play WMA so I think you suck.

I have a sony MP3 walkman, and it recognizes the WMA's as "tracks" but doesn't play them at all, and god damnit, I want to listen to my Del WMA's when I'm taking the 7 bus.

So anyone savvy in the arts of file conversion please please reply, U2u, whatever

[Edited on 7-2-2004 by Stanley Burrell]

[HarmNone]

You might try asking your question here, Stanley:

http://www.delldjsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=921

[Latrinsorm]

I know how to convert mp3 to wma.

The real question is why would you have .wma to begin with?

[Blazing247]

My guess is ITunes.

Some songs that are *impossible* to get on KazAaaa call for desperate measures to obtain. :drops 99 cents here and there:

[Bobmuhthol]

You probably fucked up burning it and made it a data CD instead of a music CD.

And yeah, you really shouldn't have a WMA on your hard drive. Get some MP3s and use a burning tool that'll convert and delete the WMA.

Heh thanks Harmnone.

I was just wondering if uhm, anyone has, and it doesn't seem so, so I'll stop asking, but, any conversion tool? Anybody?

[Blazing247]

<You probably fucked up burning it and made it a data CD instead of a music CD.

And yeah, you really shouldn't have a WMA on your hard drive. Get some MP3s and use a burning tool that'll convert and delete the WMA.>

Bob, I think you might be confusing a WMA and a WAV. In the old days, when programs ripped tracks off a CD, they made them into WAV format. Nowadays, they are ripped into WAV format and automatically converted into MP3's.

As to why it didn't work, ITunes uses copyrighted WMA's which means you need to use THEIR software to burn it to a CD (or find a converter that'll work if you can). They do this because they limit the amount of times you can burn a purchased song to a CD.

[Numbers]

http://www.wma-mp3.com/

There's loads of other links.

Just do a Google for "WMA to MP3" in quotes.

[Bobmuhthol]

I meant when he was burning onto the CD, Blazing. He should have a program to convert MP3 to WMA and deal with MP3s altogether instead of using WMAs. Unless I really do suck and am mixing them up with WAVs.

okay, musicmatch is incredibly, increduously tri-somi 21. It provides access to a shitload of WMA's which are all ??pcawopewpoiepoqw?? encrypted.

I've tried 3 different progs for wma to mp3, wma to wav (to mp3) and shit, nothing is working for the ones I got on musicmatch, but it does for like the only other 3 wma's I dl'd on kazaa.

In conclusion, my next purchase will be an iPod. Fuck.

[Blazing247]

<I meant when he was burning onto the CD, Blazing. He should have a program to convert MP3 to WMA and deal with MP3s altogether instead of using WMAs. Unless I really do suck and am mixing them up with WAVs.>

I think you might be. At no point in the ripping or burning of a normal CD do you encounter WMA's. WMA's aren't very popular as they are proprietary (I believe Microsoft/Apple) sound files, and are mostly limited to shitty programes such as ITunes.

In other words, nobody would sit there and rip a track into WMA format. Looks like he said they came from ITunes, as I assumed. ITunes = a load of shit. I downloaded the fifty free tunes I got from Diet Pepsi, and ended up deleting them all.

[Drew]

You really don't want to convert a WMA into an MP3 anyway. WMA and MP3 use different sorts of compression so when you convert them it's going to sound even worse.


You shouldn't be paying for crappy WMAs anyway, just stop looking for the songs on kazaa and use soulseek.

http://www.slsknet.org/

You can find just about anything on there and it's normally much better quality than kazaa

One last thing.

Someday, I dream of settling down with a wife, having two beautiful children, a vacation house in the Hamptons, and an iPod.

Are Musicmatch copywrited/write-protected WMA's switchable to an iPod? I don't know sheit about this and spent 3 hours yesterday whoring download.com for nothing damnit. And no house in the Hamptons either. :help:

[HarmNone]

:rtfm: According to the link I GAVE you, Stanley, WMA is not compatible with IPod. :rolleyes:

Stick with MP3, or convert to MP3. Forget the damned WMA!

HarmNone

I could have sworn they can be. But, I shall be reduced to reading the fucking manual. :hangs head in shame: