WMA to MP3

[Mazate]

Hola

I have some old WMA files that were originally purchased on Amazon as MP3's and windows media player converted them to WMA's. Now I've installed the free codec for MP3 in Rhythmbox and I want to use those old WMA's but I have no idea how to convert them back. 1) Since I bought them originally in MP3 format, are there any issues with converting them back? How do I do it?

Thanks!

[JohnJasonJordan]

Originally Posted by Mazate

Hola

I have some old WMA files that were originally purchased on Amazon as MP3's and windows media player converted them to WMA's. Now I've installed the free codec for MP3 in Rhythmbox and I want to use those old WMA's but I have no idea how to convert them back. 1) Since I bought them originally in MP3 format, are there any issues with converting them back? How do I do it?

Use lame. You'll need to study up on how to use it, as it has a ton of options.

[oldcpu]

Assuming you have ffmpeg installed, you could try somethiing like :

ffmpeg -i "input-file.wma" -acodec libmp3lame -ab 160k -ac 2 -ar 44100 "output-file.mp3"

where 'input-file.wma' is your test wma input file and 'output-file.mp3' is the test mp3 encoded output file.

or

ffmpeg -i "input-file.wma" -acodec mp3 -ab 160k -ac 2 -ar 44100 "output-file.mp3"

and assuming one of those lines worked (lets assume the one with 'libmp3lame' ), you could put all your .wma in one directory, and try:

for i in *.wma; do ffmpeg -i $i -acodec libmp3lame -ab 160k -ac 2 -ar 44100 ${i%.wma}.mp3; done

[Dangermouse]

This may be of help it enables you right click on a wma file and convert it to mp3
http://www.dnmouse.org/autoten/fedor...ght-click.html

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by Dangermouse

This may be of help it enables you right click on a wma file and convert it to mp3
http://www.dnmouse.org/autoten/fedor...ght-click.html

Or

su
yum install nautilus-sound-converter

right click on the files and select convert and choose .wav

[vertextao]

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[Mazate]

So many options...

Can I assume that there are no legal issues in converting these to MP3 since they were originally purchased as MP3 files and probably have no DRM on them? Some of them also came from CD's.

[oldcpu]

I should have also mentioned the application audenc, specifically designed for batch audio conversions.

[flyingfsck]

Or use Sound Exchange (sox) - a veritable Swiss Army Knife for sound.

[bonedome]

Another one that is very simple to use is "audio-convert-mod" and is available from the repos