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WMA Music Converter [Off Topic]

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 8:31 am
by jayshields
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.

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 8:34 am
by Jenk
WMP has the ability to save in MP3 format..

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 8:59 am
by jayshields
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?

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:15 am
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)

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:36 am
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.

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:37 am
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.

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:40 pm
by jayshields
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.

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:27 pm
by timvw
ogg is the way to go...

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:17 pm
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?