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# Hahahahahaha yay!
TJ: can anyone recommend a decent free wma to mp3 converter?
(, Sat 26 Feb 2011, 13:47, archived)
# I just tried this out with VLC and it worked, although it's not very user-friendly.
(For instance if you have "repeat current file" turned on, it endlessly converts the file until you press stop, resulting in a half-completed unplayable result. And the navigation interface is terrible. And I don't think it likes overwriting existing files, so you have to give each attempt a new name, or keep deleting the previous ones.)
(, Sat 26 Feb 2011, 14:08, archived)
# OK - cheers.
I've just downloaded Switch - that seems to do the trick.
(, Sat 26 Feb 2011, 14:22, archived)
# jodix worked well the last time i used it
(, Sat 26 Feb 2011, 14:19, archived)
# FUCK WMA!
I use dbpoweramp
(, Sat 26 Feb 2011, 14:23, archived)
# I use a 1980 Alba tape recorder pressed against my monitor speakers
You may have to gag everyone in the room though.
(, Sat 26 Feb 2011, 14:55, archived)
# Audacity might be able to do it.
If you download the thing for it anyway.
(, Sat 26 Feb 2011, 14:56, archived)
# Can't, though.
Audacity recognized the type of the file.
Importers supposedly supporting such files are:
FFmpeg-compatible files,
but none of them understood the file format.

(That might be because the WMAs which come with XP, which I tried it on, are "protected". Not sure if they are, or how I'd tell... maybe they're not protected, just too old.)
(, Sat 26 Feb 2011, 15:02, archived)