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WMA to MP3, or WAV to MP3, is it possible?

reFLUX

08:09 / 28.04.04

is it possible to change WMA to MP3, or WAV to MP3? i want to share my own beautiful music to the rest of the world and at present have figured out how to make it into either WMA or WAV but don't know how to make it into MP3. what free programme can i use to do this?
i'm not trying to self promote myself (that's for another thread) i'm just looking for technical information. just a web site will do. thanks.

lonely as a cloud...

08:23 / 28.04.04

CDEx (http://www.cdex.n3.net/) converts WAV to MP3 quite nicely, I've found. Dunno 'bout WMA, though. Good luck!

Lea-side

09:19 / 28.04.04

for wav-mp3 conversion, i-tunes is your freind....

not nervous

10:35 / 28.04.04

what about rm, avi and mpg to mac format video, whatever that's called?

nedrichards is confused

16:44 / 28.04.04

Firstly, there aren't very reasons why you'd want to change one lossy format (mp3, aac, wma) into another as it really hurts the quality. If you have to WinAmp does a job on Windows as does iTunes or RealOne. CDex also decent.

As for changing videos into Quicktime, why would you want to? You can get player for all those formats on every platform you can think of and it'd just bugger up the quality. nb for geeks: these days the quicktime format is just a container (like Real) that contains MPEG-4 video (like most recent AVIs).

reFLUX

20:32 / 29.04.04

thanks, you lovely nerds

infravires

08:42 / 30.04.04

I found dBpowerAMP Music Converter a few days ago (via a search on download.com); using plugin codecs downloaded from the same site, I'm now converting .wma, .rm & .m4a files to .mp3.

It's freeware & uses LAME; however, its GUI for controlling LAME options is a little primitive so if you're just doing .wav -> .mp3 then I'd favour LAME on its own (maybe aided by a GUI front-end: RazorLAME does the job for me).

dBpowerAMP is all (AFAIK) Wintel-only.

Lord Morgue

16:06 / 30.04.04

Damn your new-fangled ways! You should all be listening to old Commodore 64 .sids, like me! Eat of my flesh, this here Nemesis the Warlock soundtrack by Rob Hubbard.
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/tcworh/rh_neme.htm

not nervous

15:15 / 06.05.04

how about this then, is it possible to make exe. files work on my mac?

reFLUX

19:45 / 06.05.04

thanks infravires the dBpower link works great and soon everyone on Soulseek will be able to download my shitty music.

as if they'd want to.

netbanshee

20:25 / 06.05.04

exe's won't work on a mac since it a pc coded executible file. It's a program as opposed to a document. So it won't be a file you'll be opening up in a Mac application. UNIX files can run in OSX though.

Also, you can do the wma to mp3/aac conversion in iTunes as long as the wma isn't drm. Catch me?

and LAME files sound absolutely fantastic. Haven't looked into the Apple flavor of the lossless file format that they just released but I'm sure it's probably similar.

not nervous

23:24 / 06.05.04

i think i get you, in the most tenuous, uncertain way imaginable. thanks.

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