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Title: Does anyone know of a good audio file converter?
Post by: CmdrSlack on February 15, 2005, 01:10:57 PM
I was lazy and ripped most of my CDs with windows media player.  Now I'm stuck with .wma formatted backups.

As opposed to simply deleting them all and re-ripping my music, does anyone know of a good free converter?

I need to go from .wma to .mp3, and everything I've found wants me to pay about 30 bucks to register the program so I can actually convert the entire file.



Title: Re: Does anyone know of a good audio file converter?
Post by: kidder on February 15, 2005, 01:36:07 PM
This one is free and pretty slick too:  http://www.nch.com.au/burn/#101


Title: Re: Does anyone know of a good audio file converter?
Post by: MisterNoisy on February 15, 2005, 02:12:25 PM
I use dMC by dBPowerAMP (http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm).  There's a WMA codec (http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central.htm) for it as well.


Title: Re: Does anyone know of a good audio file converter?
Post by: CmdrSlack on February 15, 2005, 04:03:42 PM
Thanks Mr. Noisy!  That program is great.  And once I'm done, I'll not have to register the 30 trial license for mp3s.

Especially keen is the fact that I can do it all via Explorer.


Title: Re: Does anyone know of a good audio file converter?
Post by: Trippy on February 15, 2005, 04:33:54 PM
Thanks Mr. Noisy!  That program is great.  And once I'm done, I'll not have to register the 30 trial license for mp3s.
I thought dBpowerAMP uses LAME as it's MP3 encoder? Why would the use of that expire?


Title: Re: Does anyone know of a good audio file converter?
Post by: MisterNoisy on February 15, 2005, 05:41:07 PM
More info re: dMC and Lame/license here (http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=6450) and here (http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=5399)