View Full Version : Converting wma to mp3
dreams
July 27th, 2002, 08:50 PM
Im trying to convert wma to mp3, or maybe even ogg. How do I tell which compression to use considering they are completely different. Should I just convert to wav, then to mp3?
Rickio
July 27th, 2002, 09:46 PM
Best way to know is to convert to both and listen. Just pick a music file with a wide range of sounds and do a experiment.
I think it's up to your ears. They are both comparable and it really depends on the bitrate you choose.
I don't think mp3 is going to disappear and ogg is up and coming. I think ogg will be very popular.
dreams
July 27th, 2002, 10:46 PM
Yea, I have been encoding all my cds into ogg format 500 kbps so they start to spread through the networks.
123_kid
July 27th, 2002, 11:23 PM
you should consider using mpc. it's transparent to nearly everybody at around 200 kbs.
anorlu
August 14th, 2002, 02:01 AM
Advanced WMA workshop can do that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.litexmedia.com/
anorlu
August 14th, 2002, 02:16 AM
or look at :
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/
123_kid
August 19th, 2002, 11:33 PM
OR you could go to this page and get an alternate wma plugin for winamp. http://www.inf.ufpr.br/~rja00/others.html . it's relatively slow but it's pretty sweet. just getting this instead of downloading a whole different program just for converting wma to mp3 sounds better to me, but that's just me.
LukaBuka
April 11th, 2005, 01:17 PM
Advanced WMA workshop can do that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.litexmedia.com/
... and it does it better than other software I tried. A bit expensive, but nothing that Deprice, Froogle, PriceGrabber or Shopping.Com can't cure
that's where I got it at 15% off
http://www.deprice.com/advancedwmaworkshop.htm
Look at eBay too
Auggie2k
April 11th, 2005, 01:28 PM
Oh god, definately go for dBpowerAMP...
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/
Endless list of codecs, tag editor and just pure ease of use. See for yourself!
Rajarius
April 11th, 2005, 11:19 PM
Uhh... don't convert to anything. Transcoding isn't the thing to do.
Using 500 kbits is a waste of space with a lossy compression mechanism. You probably can't hear the difference past a certain point way lower than that anyway. What you really want in this case is lossless, like WAVpack or FLAC.
Also, to be complete, MPC becomes transparent to most people at bitrates much lower than 200 kbps. More like 160.