Can anyone help??? takin delivery of the new Octy Vrs soon, how do you change WMA Files to Mp3's?? want to make up some cd's as the cd changer plays Mp3's

please can someone put me rite???

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Is WMA standard CD tracks? I think windows media player has an MP3 compressor built in. I used to use audiocatalyst but have since lost the program and can't find the full version anywhere.

A friend told me it was quite easy to just download anything off Bitorrent sites. I wouldn't do such a thing of course.....

Is WMA standard CD tracks? I think windows media player has an MP3 compressor built in. I used to use audiocatalyst but have since lost the program and can't find the full version anywhere.

A friend told me it was quite easy to just download anything off Bitorrent sites. I wouldn't do such a thing of course.....

WMA stands for windows media audio, but isn't compatable with many hifi's. It's Bill Gates failed attempt to take over the music world...

There's plently of free bits of software which will convert wma into mp3, just type "wma mp3 convertor" into google, and there's no end to them!

Make sure all your future rips are mp3. Go to 'preferences' in Windows Media Player, and change wma to mp3... whilst your there, I'd personally up the bit rate to 192kb/sec because I find 128kb/sec not good enough for many tracks...

Chris

if you've got a load to do, and you want to automate it then the best tool by far is dbpoweramp. not free, but v cheap. i had a 40gb hdd of wma files i wanted converting (don't ask!) and it did it for me, keeping the folder structure etc.

mail me if you want to try it out....

Ditto above - best tool by far. http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

if you've got a load to do' date=' and you want to automate it then the best tool by far is dbpoweramp. not free, but v cheap. i had a 40gb hdd of wma files i wanted converting (don't ask!) and it did it for me, keeping the folder structure etc.

mail me if you want to try it out....[/quote']

The older version was free, I reverted back to it

iTunes for windows (look in apple.com) will do it quite easy. The mac version has not this feature.

But you will loose quality in your music, because you're compressing again your compressed files, and this process is always lossy. Just like converting a jpg image file to another jpg image file, but with sound files.

The best option is to compress to mp3 directly from your original source (eg. original cd's). Plenty of programs, I use iTunes too, because it does it with inserting the cd and just one click, and it incorporates automatically the song and artist name (and more), and put the songs organized in your hard drive by artist folder and albums subfolders. Just check first the preferences before, to ensure you like them, the first time, eg. quality compression etc. Saving time is saving life.

Good luck.

using nero make a data disc with all your tracks on it.

As above, lots of software will do it, but keep in mind you will loose some more audio quality with the conversion from one format to the other. A much better solution is to re-rip the source CD's in MP3 format.

Daft thought. The vRS comes with the Stream radio and 6 CD changer which I did not think played MP3 CDS. correct me if I am wrong as I have 100gb of mp3s

I have a vRS with the stream radio and 6 disks CD standard fit, and it will not play MP3's. It just comes up with CD-ROM if you put in a MP3 recorded disk.