Need a good music converter

AsSiMiLaTeD
AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,725
edited November 2008 in The Clubhouse
Anyone know of a good (hopefully free) tool that will allow me to convert files from WMA to MP3? I've got LOTS of files that need to be converted, so hopefully something with batch processing...

Thanks
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited November 2008
    I used something called dbconverter or some such, I believe, to convert ALL my music files a while back. It's amazingly small and simple, and worked very fast. It also utilized all four of my CPU cores. It dedicated one conversion process to each core and showed the progress of each process. Was quite amazing. I'll see if I can't find it again.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited November 2008
    dBpoweramp Music Converter is what I used. I'm pretty sure the software is just a free trial, but it did everything I wanted it to do for me. Here's a link where you can download it from them. As you can see, it's very powerful.

    http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
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  • StephenEC
    StephenEC Posts: 57
    edited November 2008
    How about this . . . I have not used it tho . . .

    http://www.wma-mp3.org/
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,725
    edited November 2008
    was it dbpoweramp?
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,725
    edited November 2008
    got it, thanks
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited November 2008
    Just as a preview, here's a screenshot I took of the program as it was converting files for me before, along with the Task Manager so I could monitor CPU usage.

    45fbd2a0.jpg
    George Grand wrote: »
    Jstas wrote: »
    Simple question. If you had a cool million bucks, what would you do with it?
    Wonder WTF happened to the rest of my money.
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    PS3, Yamaha CDR-HD1300, Plex, Amazon Fire TV Gen 2
    Pioneer Elite VSX-52, Parasound HCA-1000A
    Klipsch RF-82ii, RC-62ii, RS-42ii, RW-10d
    Epson 8700UB
    In Storage
    [Home Audio]
    Rotel RCD-02, Yamaha KX-W900U, Sony ST-S500ES, Denon DP-7F
    Pro-Ject Phono Box MKII, Parasound P/HP-850, ASL Wave 20 monoblocks
    Klipsch RF-35, RB-51ii
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    Pioneer Premier DEH-P860MP, Memphis 16-MCA3004, Boston Acoustic RC520
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,725
    edited November 2008
    I'm really loving having 4 cpu cores right now, awesome! Thanks for the link, works great! I'll probably end up buying it...
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,725
    edited November 2008
    Maybe I spoke too soon...it doesn't like some of my wma files. What's odd is that these files show as 440 bitrate, didn't even know that was an option...

    Actually it doesn't seem to like ANY of my wma files, bummer
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited November 2008
    Oh wow, it won't convert your WMA files?! That's really lame! :(
    George Grand wrote: »
    Jstas wrote: »
    Simple question. If you had a cool million bucks, what would you do with it?
    Wonder WTF happened to the rest of my money.
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    PS3, Yamaha CDR-HD1300, Plex, Amazon Fire TV Gen 2
    Pioneer Elite VSX-52, Parasound HCA-1000A
    Klipsch RF-82ii, RC-62ii, RS-42ii, RW-10d
    Epson 8700UB
    In Storage
    [Home Audio]
    Rotel RCD-02, Yamaha KX-W900U, Sony ST-S500ES, Denon DP-7F
    Pro-Ject Phono Box MKII, Parasound P/HP-850, ASL Wave 20 monoblocks
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,725
    edited November 2008
    Nevermind I'm retarded - I didn't realize you had to download all the codecs separately and install them, figured they'd be included in the program installation.

    I've got all the codecs now and I'm good, thanks for the tip on the program
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited November 2008
    I just reinstalled it to play around with some files, and just realized you have to install a few codecs, as well.

    Glad it's working for you now! I thought it was a great find when I needed to convert so many of my files.
    George Grand wrote: »
    Jstas wrote: »
    Simple question. If you had a cool million bucks, what would you do with it?
    Wonder WTF happened to the rest of my money.
    In Use
    PS3, Yamaha CDR-HD1300, Plex, Amazon Fire TV Gen 2
    Pioneer Elite VSX-52, Parasound HCA-1000A
    Klipsch RF-82ii, RC-62ii, RS-42ii, RW-10d
    Epson 8700UB
    In Storage
    [Home Audio]
    Rotel RCD-02, Yamaha KX-W900U, Sony ST-S500ES, Denon DP-7F
    Pro-Ject Phono Box MKII, Parasound P/HP-850, ASL Wave 20 monoblocks
    Klipsch RF-35, RB-51ii
    [Car Audio]
    Pioneer Premier DEH-P860MP, Memphis 16-MCA3004, Boston Acoustic RC520
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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited November 2008
    +eleventy billion for DBPowerAmp.
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