WMA Music Converter [Off Topic]

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WMA Music Converter [Off Topic]

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Yo.

I know this is completely off-topic but I'm actually contemplating suicide because of it :p

My actual scenario is that I have a 5gb MP3/WMA player, and now it's full, and I need to compress my music to fit more on, so this is what's happening...

I have looked everywhere for a WMA converter that actually works and is free. All I want to do is drag and drop my full music collection into a program, click go, and leave it to change every file to WMA at a specific kbps.

I have about 5gb of music, some WMA, some MP3, all encoded differently, I just want to change them all to WMA at about 92kbps and keep the ID3 tags.

I've tried programs that only let me encode 60% of each song, programs which crash when adding more than 100 songs into it, programs that only let you convert one song on each launch, etc, it's doing my head in.

Please, if someone knows of a program that would fit my needs, tell me!

Thanks in advance.
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Post by Jenk »

WMP has the ability to save in MP3 format..
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So you think I should just convert all my files to smaller MP3's using Windows Media Player?

Can you do them in bulk? How?
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Post by Jenk »

I'd choose MP3 over WMA, from my experiences (of only playback) WMA is bulkier than MP3 to achieve the same quality.

Have you tried Audacity? (Opensource sound editor but it may be able to do what you ask)
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Post by jayshields »

Someone recommended me Blaze Media Pro, although you only get a 15 day trial, it seems to be working OK.

I've already started converting to 96kbps WMA now, so if you're right about the file sizes, you're too late :(

Thanks anyway.
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Post by Jenk »

I could well be wrong. I'm biased as well due to WMA being nothing more than another MS monopolisation attempt in my opinion.
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Yeah, I don't agree with Microsoft only file formats either, but I've never had a problem with WMA before, so I don't see any reason to completely ditch it. Besides, before your comment I thought WMA's were generally a smaller file than MP3's, but that was just what I presumed.
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ogg is the way to go...
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Post by jayshields »

Sadly my MP3 player doesn't support OGG, or I'd look into it. Only MP3, WMA and WAV.

Which MP3 players actually support OGG?
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