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WMA->MP3 batch conversion
Name: davehelps Date: April 26, 2004 at 10:30:27 Pacific OS: XP Pro SP1 CPU/Ram: AMD 2400, 512 MB DDR
Comment:
Hey everyone
I've had a creative labs mp3 player for a while but I am changing to an iPod soon. However the iPod will not play WMAs and 1,277 of my tracks are in this format.
I was wondering if anyone knows of a decent conversion program that will scan for WMAs in My Music folder and convert them to MP3s. Can I be greedy and hope it'll do the tags as well? Hell while I'm feeling lucky, is there any chance sucha program could be freeware?
Name: Hank Schafer Date: April 26, 2004 at 11:07:15 Pacific
Reply:
"Easy CD-DA Extractor" will do this, but it's not free... I think they offer a 'trial' version on the website: http://www.poikosoft.com I use it all the time, it's hard to beat for extraction from CDs, audio conversion, cataloging of CDs, etc... does it all, does it well. Supports almost every audio format you've ever heard of and then some...
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Response Number 2
Name: keef444 Date: April 26, 2004 at 11:55:48 Pacific
Reply:
DBPowerAmp converter is free and works great.
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
Hope this helps
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Response Number 3
Name: Kurt S Date: April 26, 2004 at 13:43:06 Pacific
Reply:
CDex is also free and does batch conversion
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
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Response Number 4
Name: bsewell Date: April 27, 2004 at 01:56:56 Pacific
Reply:
Alternatively, just use Windows Media player to burn the CDs and then extract them. It would take time and some cash to do this though.:-/
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