.wmv to .mp3 conversion

[mikepctp]

I am not sure if this is the correct forum for this question but you guys have always come through in the past (with my silly questions) and I am hoping for the same this time.

My lady dumped a LOT (I mean huge numbers) of our CD's to the PC and by a booboo... used Windows Media Player .wmv as the file extension format.
I have a special spot for Mr. Gates and I assure you it is not in my music library.

Is there a way that iTunes or Real or ? can convert these "bastard" files into something playable on the Mac without using Media Player?

I love iTunes and have an extensive library that is dying to have these others added.

Any suggestions are REALLY appreciated as I really do not want to fathom a complete re-load.

Thanks gang!

MP:confused:

[rainman::|:|]

WMV and MP3 (or AAC for that matter) are both lossy codecs, meaning that data is stripped down during compression. If you run a song through two lossy codecs, the sound will degrade very badly. You will certainly be able to notice it. If you are able to find a converter-- and unfortunately i do not know of one-- it'll hardly be worth it to convert them... i would start looking at re-ripping.

sorry :/

paul

[Nermal]

The only app I know of that can convert these is dMC (http://www.dbpoweramp.com/), which only runs on Windows. But as Paul said, converting from one lossy format to another will make it sound bad.

[michaelrjohnson]

yeah, i wish that there was also an easy way to do this. alas, the best we can look forward to is hours and hours of re-encoding.... either that or apple makes itunes support .wma files (but i think we both know what would happen first)

[Powerbook G5]

If iTunes had the support, who would really want Windows Media files in their iTunes library?

[vniow]

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=58391