WMA FILES TO ITUNES

> I was given a number of music files that were encoded in WMA format -
> I-Tunes doesn't want to see them- is there a good tool to covert them
> to something I-tunes likes without loosing too much more fidelity?

I haven't used any of them, but a search of WMA at VersionTracker.com
turns up several freeware and shareware conversion utilities.

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Tim Crowley - 17 Oct 2006 22:38 GMT

> > I was given a number of music files that were encoded in WMA format -
> > I-Tunes doesn't want to see them- is there a good tool to covert them
> > to something I-tunes likes without loosing too much more fidelity?
>
> I haven't used any of them, but a search of WMA at VersionTracker.com
> turns up several freeware and shareware conversion utilities.

Thanks Mike - I checked that list before I posted. I was hoping to find
someone with experience using them. My concern is that the WMA files
are probably already low fidelity and I fear converting them to yet
another losssy format, thus degrading the sound further. If I
understand correctly - the windows I-Tunes will let me conver them to
Apples Lossless so I won't loose anything in the conversion. I must
know someone I haven't disowned that has a windows box :-)

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Mike Rosenberg - 17 Oct 2006 22:52 GMT

> Thanks Mike - I checked that list before I posted. I was hoping to find
> someone with experience using them. My concern is that the WMA files
> are probably already low fidelity and I fear converting them to yet
> another losssy format, thus degrading the sound further.

Oh, I understand. Well, you could always use either Audio Hijack or
Wiretap to record them as .aif files while playing them.

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> I was given a number of music files that were encoded in WMA format -
> I-Tunes doesn't want to see them- is there a good tool to covert them
> to something I-tunes likes without loosing too much more fidelity?

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/convert_mac_wma_audio_files_to_mp3.html

Or if you have access to a Windows machine WMP, or iTunes on Windows can
convert to MP3.

Greg

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> I was given a number of music files that were encoded in WMA format -
> I-Tunes doesn't want to see them- is there a good tool to covert them
> to something I-tunes likes without loosing too much more fidelity?
>
> Thanks

If the WMA files are not DRM protected you can use the Flip4Mac codec
<//www.flip4mac.com/wmv,htm>
to read the files with QuickTime Player Pro, then export them as AIFF.
You can then import them into iTunes as Apple lossless format.

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On 17/10/06 9:51 pm, in article
1161118303.199378.116190@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com, "Tim Crowley"
<timmyturmoil@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was given a number of music files that were encoded in WMA format -
> I-Tunes doesn't want to see them- is there a good tool to covert them
> to something I-tunes likes without loosing too much more fidelity?
>
> Thanks

I use EasyWMA. See:

<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/23003>
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> I was given a number of music files that were encoded in WMA format -
> I-Tunes doesn't want to see them- is there a good tool to covert them
> to something I-tunes likes without loosing too much more fidelity?
>
> Thanks

As with any lossy codec like MP3, AAC and WMA, converting to WAV, AIFF,
or Apple Lossless results in a file with the same quality as the
orignal, but that new WAV/AIFF/Lossless file takes ups way more disk
space.

Best thing to do is convert it to WAV or AIFF then use iTunes to make
it the best quality AAC it can make. That way you get only a slight
degradation from the original and take up about the same disk space as
before, or even less.

CD

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WMA FILES TO ITUNES