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mikepctp

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Nov 17, 2003
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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::|:|

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Feb 2, 2002
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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

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Dec 7, 2002
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The only app I know of that can convert these is dMC, which only runs on Windows. But as Paul said, converting from one lossy format to another will make it sound bad.
 

michaelrjohnson

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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)
 
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