Hello,

I would be be grateful for some recommendations on audio encoding
freeware. I particularly want to convert WMA to MP3 format. If possible
something that will deal with Microsoft license on WMA files.

Thank you,

Marty

Marty wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would be be grateful for some recommendations on audio encoding
> freeware. I particularly want to convert WMA to MP3 format. If
> possible something that will deal with Microsoft license on WMA files.

Lots of luck.

Used to be that dbPoweramp could do what you want but that may have
changed relative to licensing. Additionally, they quit including an MP3
encoder, don't know if that has changed either.

Barring it, two ways spring to mind...

1. Burn the WMA files to a CD as audio, rip that CD to MP3.

2. Play the wma file(s), record the sound, encode the recording to MP3

The easiest solution is to avoid wma files.

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Marty wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would be be grateful for some recommendations on audio encoding
> freeware. I particularly want to convert WMA to MP3 format. If
> possible something that will deal with Microsoft license on WMA files.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Marty

I have used CDex:

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

I have converted many wma files to mp3 and ogg files and never had any
kind of problems.

Markku Virtanen

Marty wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would be be grateful for some recommendations on audio encoding
> freeware. I particularly want to convert WMA to MP3 format. If possible
> something that will deal with Microsoft license on WMA files.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Marty

dbpoweramp is still the best and easiest to use; you can still get the
version that includes mp3:
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/200...#Audio:Encoder