wma to mp3 converter?

Hi all,
Is there a free one of the above? All I seem to find are shareware ones.

dave smith wrote:
> Hi all,
> Is there a free one of the above? All I seem to find are shareware ones.

Here are some to look at.

SC Audio Converter
http://www.softwareclub.ws/a_converter.html

Audio Converter
http://www.freeturtles.com/

Switch
http://www.nch.com.au/switch/index.html

Advanced Audio Converter
http://www.softwaredepo.com/audio_converter.html

GX::Transcoder
http://www.germanixsoft.de/

MediaCoder
http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

<jmatt@webace.com.au> wrote in message
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> dave smith wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Is there a free one of the above? All I seem to find are shareware ones.
>
> Here are some to look at. <snip>
>
> Audio Converter
> http://www.freeturtles.com/

I'm baffled by this page. It says the program is shareware, then says it's
freeware. Also the screenshot does not load (tried it with three browsers).
This does not inspire confidence.

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Hello,

> Is there a free one of the above? All I seem to find are
> shareware ones.

I always see the need to note: There is no known way to convert
..wma files with DRM, which you may bought, downloaded or
produced yourself (because of wrong encoder settings).

You only can record while playing these files. What is the best
free tool for such a task?

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"Thorsten Duhn" <Thorsten.Duhn@editorial.de> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
>> Is there a free one of the above? All I seem to find are
>> shareware ones.
>
> I always see the need to note: There is no known way to convert
> .wma files with DRM, which you may bought, downloaded or
> produced yourself (because of wrong encoder settings).
>
> You only can record while playing these files. What is the best
> free tool for such a task?
>
> Regards,

I use CDex http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

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> Thorsten
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"Thorsten Duhn" <Thorsten.Duhn@editorial.de> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
>> Is there a free one of the above? All I seem to find are
>> shareware ones.
>
> I always see the need to note: There is no known way to convert
> .wma files with DRM, which you may bought, downloaded or
> produced yourself (because of wrong encoder settings).
>
> You only can record while playing these files. What is the best
> free tool for such a task?
>
> Regards,

I use CDex http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

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> Thorsten
> --
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Thorsten Duhn wrote:

> I always see the need to note: There is no known way to convert
> .wma files with DRM, which you may bought, downloaded or
> produced yourself (because of wrong encoder settings).
>
> You only can record while playing these files. <snip>

A faster way is to write the protected WMA files to a CD as "audio" then
rip/encode from that disc to MP3. Use a CD-RW so it can be re-used.

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Hello,

>> I always see the need to note: There is no known way to
>> convert .wma files with DRM, which you may bought,
>> downloaded or produced yourself (because of wrong encoder
>> settings).
>>
>> You only can record while playing these files. <snip>
>
> A faster way is to write the protected WMA files to a CD as
> "audio" then rip/encode from that disc to MP3. Use a CD-RW
> so it can be re-used.

the fastest way I know is off topic (TuneBite), and not all
files can be burned to audio because of DRM restrictions.
Recording with something like the recorder from CDex (which
Frank suggested) is of course always working, but a tool
with a bit more luxury would be cool. Burning and ripping
at least gives you originally cutted tracks automatically.
And with CD-TEXT support maybe naming of tracks is possible
too. But the same without CD-R indirection would be cool.

Don't get me wrong, I just wanted to answer the original post
and also I'm curious about this topic. I for myself found my
solution (see above), but that's off topic...

Regards,
Thorsten
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:17:34 GMT, "dave smith"
<idavesmithNoSpam@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>Hi all,
>Is there a free one of the above? All I seem to find are shareware ones.
>
Foobar2000
http://www.foobar2000.org/
The most powerful and IMNSHO the best mp3 player/ripper/encoder/tagger/etc
in existence.

regards

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