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dreams · **Converting wma to mp3 -** July 27th, 2002, 07:50 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 · **convert away -** July 27th, 2002, 08:46 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 · **yea -** July 27th, 2002, 09:46 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, 10:23 PM

you should consider using mpc. it's transparent to nearly everybody at around 200 kbs.

anorlu · August 14th, 2002, 01:01 AM

Advanced WMA workshop can do that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.litexmedia.com/

anorlu · August 14th, 2002, 01:16 AM

or look at :

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

123_kid · August 19th, 2002, 10:33 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, 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by anorlu

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 · 05:23 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, 10:19 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.

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dreams Offline Zeropaid Regular Posts: 50 Join Date: Apr 2002 Reputation Power: 95	Converting wma to mp3 - July 27th, 2002, 07:50 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 Offline Zeropaid Regular Posts: 1,941 Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: So Cal Reputation Power: 205	convert away - July 27th, 2002, 08:46 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 Offline Zeropaid Regular Posts: 50 Join Date: Apr 2002 Reputation Power: 95	yea - July 27th, 2002, 09:46 PM Yea, I have been encoding all my cds into ogg format 500 kbps so they start to spread through the networks.

123_kid Offline Zeropaid Regular Posts: 72 Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: macomb county, michigan Reputation Power: 94	July 27th, 2002, 10:23 PM you should consider using mpc. it's transparent to nearly everybody at around 200 kbs. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety - Ben Franklin

anorlu Offline Registered User Posts: 3 Join Date: Aug 2002 Reputation Power: 0	August 14th, 2002, 01:01 AM Advanced WMA workshop can do that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.litexmedia.com/

anorlu Offline Registered User Posts: 3 Join Date: Aug 2002 Reputation Power: 0	August 14th, 2002, 01:16 AM or look at : http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

Auggie2k Offline Back to business! Posts: 5,187 Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Ireland Age: 23 Reputation Power: 353	April 11th, 2005, 12:28 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! Downloads II Torrents Last edited by Auggie2k; January 30th, 2006 at 05:23 PM.