WMA to MP3

[ddrueding]

Helping a friend who has a boatload of WMA files from iTunes and a non-WMA capable MP3 player. Looking for a way to convert all of them, preserving the structure and the metadata.

This one will do the data conversion, but one folder at a time and without metadata.

Thanks in advance....

 

[Stereodude]

Foobar2k will do it with the exception of album art. Your other option (pay) is DBpoweramp Music Converter. It will keep album art.

iTunes doesn't make WMA files though so something seems a bit off with your story.

 

[ddrueding]

Allow me to complicate the story.

He had a computer, he also had a wife. He no longer has a wife, and he only had 45 minutes of access to the computer.

He did use iTunes (though the account was hers), and many of the songs were purchased from there. I've managed to talk him out of going that way again, but he doesn't want to lose any of his music. I've found .mp3 and .wma files so far, but I haven't gone through all the hundreds of folders yet.

I just want to make sure that everything will play on anything. The only sure thing I know of is MP3.

 

[Stereodude]

Well, since the iTunes tracks are DRM infested even if he copied 'em he won't be able to use 'em since they're locked to the account on the other PC (I think that's how it works). They're also aac files (not sure of the extension).

I wouldn't recommend transcoding from one lossy format to another. It's a bad idea. Most new units (excluding iPods) will play mp3, aac, and wma.

 

[ddrueding]

At least one of the converters I've seen online promises to strip the protection from iTunes songs and make them MP3.

 

[Stereodude]

At least one of the converters I've seen online promises to strip the protection from iTunes songs and make them MP3.

Yeah, by playing it back, recording the output, and then re-compressing it. What a great idea! :hurl:

 

[Bozo]

It has been a while, but I believe I used NCH free version to convert iTunes to MP3.
It also does batch files.

 

[Mercutio]

FormatFactory will do that, and can manage it as a batch conversion job, too.

 

[ddrueding]

Looks great guys, thanks!

 

[LunarMist]

It seems rather iffy to me. Which half has the rights to the files?

 

[ddrueding]

Apparently they have very different tastes, so their wasn't any conflict there.

 

[ddrueding]

Format Factory worked flawlessly. Clicked the "all to MP3" button, pointed at the root, and checked the "process tree" box. Overnight it handled the whole thing, cleanly erroring on the non-music files and continuing with the good ones.

 

[Mercutio]

FormatFactory is a great swiss army knife for anyone with a digital media collection.

 

[time]

Thanks for that, very useful. :thumbleft:

 

[Ailin]

Thank you, by the way, does it suit for MP4?

 

[ddrueding]

Yes it does. Welcome to Storage Forum!

 

[Ailin]

Yes it does. Welcome to Storage Forum!

Thank you.:sunny: