WMA to Mp3

[HiddenIdentity]

Does anyone know of a fast, free WMA to MP3 encoder that preserves the quality of the music?

[PlayingWithFire]

Does anyone know of a fast, free WMA to MP3 encoder that preserves the quality of the music?

that'd be a huge mp3 file you know.

[HiddenIdentity]

Does anyone know of a fast, free WMA to MP3 encoder that preserves the quality of the music?

that'd be a huge mp3 file you know.

Really? On 128 kbps?

What I'm trying to do is convert my music which is all on WMA format to MP3's so they can work on any mp3 player. If theres another way to do this, please tell me.

[Jivedude]

http://www.filetrial.com/convert/wmatowav.html

[HiddenIdentity]

Would wav be better than mp3?

[Jivedude]

Would wav be better than mp3?

Well it does wma2mp3 or you could go wma2wav then wav2mp3

[Pedantic]

I think iTunes converts from .wma to .mp3 or .aac. Been a while since I've done it though.

[bronxxbomber]

here's the best and simplest audio encoder. it encodes pretty much to any format ogg vorbis, wav, mpv, mp3, etc. it's free too.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=434

[Pablo975]

I use dbPower Amp converter. It's like $15 for the converter, ripper, etc. I use it a ton and it's easy.

[Coppermine]

Would wav be better than mp3?

No! Never!

Yeah, I had this problem a couple years ago... I started using Windows Media Player to rip my CD's and the damn thing encoded all of my music to WMA... Bastards! So when I tried to move them to my MP3 player, it didn't work (most MP3 players now support WMA... I'm not sure if iPod does, but I doubt it).

WMA is actually a good file format, it's smaller than MP3's and preserves quality, but it's just not very compatable, especially with PC music players other than WMP.

So, I would definitely convert all your WMA's to MP3's and there is an easy option in the Media Players Options>Ripping to change all ripped files to be encoded as MP3's. It's just not default.

Damn Microsoft!