WMA

[Caleb Marcus]

On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 08:20 -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> 
> andy baxter wrote:
> > Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> >> What application do people out there use to convert wma audio files to 
> >> mp3 easily?
> >>
> >>   
> > The way I would do it is to use mplayer in command line mode to convert 
> > to wav format, then convert the wav to mp3 using lame. Get back to me 
> > (through the list) if you want fuller instructions on how to do this.
> 
> Thanks for all the hints to everyone who offered advice on this :-)
> 
> I was looking at an olympus digital voice recorder that only records in 
> WMA format, and I wanted to make sure I could convert the information 
> for editing if I tried using it!
> 
> Thanks again!
> -Bart
> 

Ugh, ONLY records to WMA? I'd look at another recorder... that's just
annoying. Another thing is that you may lose quality by converting a
lossy format, WMA, to another lossy format, mp3.
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