I need a MP3 to WMA converter

By James Kendrick | Monday, April 18, 2005 | 7:13 PM CT | 13 comments | Tweet This

I have a ton of MP3 audio files and want to convert them to WMA so I can put more of them on my Sony U and Creative Muvo. I’m looking for a good free (of course) batch converter. Any suggestions?

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Comments (13)

I like dbPoweramp. Converts b/w all sorts of formats after downloading the appropriate codec. Releases before 10.1 have full free mp3 included… but you may have to dig around on google a little.

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central.htm

XSNoise — 1:51 PM on April 18, 2005 Reply
Isn’t there a Power Toy that does that?

Perry — 2:29 PM on April 18, 2005 Reply
I use MP3toWMA found at http://www.reseau.org/mp3towma/
You can set your bit and sampling rates and point it at a folder and let it go. Kind of a CPU hog so don’t have anything else running. I usually set it to run before going to bed. Next morning I have a bunch of WMA’s for my U750P…..

H.

Howard — 2:42 PM on April 18, 2005 Reply
I use Windows Media Encoder from MS.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx

Chris — 3:14 PM on April 18, 2005 Reply
I could swear that Windows Media Player can do this pretty easily, but I’ve never actually gone through with it. I’ll have a poke around, but the answer might be right under your nose…

Josh

Josh Bancroft — 3:14 PM on April 18, 2005 Reply
Another vote for dbpoweramp!

-arebelspy

arebelspy — 5:36 PM on April 18, 2005 Reply
The Windows Digital Media Experience Plus! Pack from MS is pretty good… it’s about £12 Sterling (something like $20US) It’ll allow you to convert MP3’s to WMA and even re-encode your WMA’s to different bitrates…. so you can make 64Kbps copies of your lossless rips

Worth every penny!!

Slimboyfat — 8:28 PM on April 18, 2005 Reply
Maybe it’s the Digital Plus! package that I’m thinking of and not a Power Toy. I have both, so I forget sometimes which tool came from which package…

Perry — 5:12 AM on April 19, 2005 Reply
Who cares? Do your own homework.

me — 6:06 AM on April 19, 2005 Reply
DBPowerAmp too,

It’s small, pretty fast, without any adware or malware inside and free

Way to go !

Airwave — 7:38 AM on April 19, 2005 Reply
Hi,

I recommend musicmatch jukebox. http://www.musicmatch.com. I’ve tried a bunch of others and to me the encodes it gives is the best.

Brad Isaac — 6:38 AM on April 22, 2005 Reply
Brad, that’s an interesting choice and one I wouldn’t have thought of. Thanks for passing it along.

jk — 7:44 AM on April 22, 2005 Reply
I use dbPowerAmp too. Works well, hogs the CPU, but the ability to choose your bitrate is very nice.

Fred Beiderbecke — 12:12 AM on April 26, 2005 Reply