Converting WMA to MP3

first thing to mention is this.

converting a Lossey format to another lossy format is not recomended at all.

imagine this.

i tape a VHS of a program off the TV, the quality goes down a bit. then i give it to my friend and they copy the VHS onto another VHS, then another one puts it onto his computer off that VHS and converts it to MPEG and then burns it to a VCD.

if you compare the first TV broadcast of the program to the VCD version you will notice a HUGE difference in quality.


a WMA has lost information from a CD so sounds worse than a CD, converting WMA to MP3 will loose even more information, so the MP3 will sound worse than the WMA (quite considerably)


it is seriously frowned apon to re-encoded.


i personally have my entire music collection in FLAC which is perfect 100% bit for bit CD quality.

anyway i say just leave it as WMA unless its really really needed to stick onto a portable MP3 player. in which case re-rip from the original cd's to MP3 (but i assume you downloaded off the net, at which time i recomend you download them again)


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Yes, Flacs are large.

Lossless audio compression formats (flac, shorten, monkey's audio) can only typically compress to maybe 60% of original file size.

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IIRC, winamp supports WMA.

Just turn on winamp's diskwriter and play your WMA files. Winamp will convert them to WAVs.

Now use your favorite MP3 encoder to convert them to MP3s. Unless your favorite encoder is LAME, you are wrong.

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