WMA to Apple converter?

I have a large no of wma files I need to convert to apple lossless. What app is best and does batch conversion?
Thanks for the help.

You could use the Flip4Mac codecs combined with QuickTime Player 7 to do the task.
I think you have to pay for Flip4Mac if you need to do conversion. You may also need a 'Pro' license for QuickTime 7.
http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac/
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3678
I used to use a program called 'Max' but I don't think it's been updated in some time so it may be unstable on 10.8 and later.
http://sbooth.org/Max/#download
Not sure of another option that would do batch conversion besides Max.

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Wma to mp3 converter

I downloaded a conversion program "wma to mp3 converter" to be able to listen to wma music files in my computer. However when I click on the file, just the programmers' codes appear, nothing else. How can I activate the converter program? That is, how can I see the converter's window so that I can drag my wma files into it for conversion into mp3 format? Thanks

necil wrote:
I downloaded a conversion program "wma to mp3 converter"
is that an app that can run on a Mac ?
How can I activate the converter program?
did you contact the developer ?
if you can't get it going, consider getting EasyWMA instead.

What is the best WMA to MP3 Converter?

What is the best WMA to Mp3 Converter Software Program?

http://www.iskysoft.com/convert-audio/wma-to-mp3-mac.html
http://www.easywma.com/EasyWMA/About.html
http://www.mediahuman.com/audio-converter/

Finding all of my existing WMA's and converting them to itunes

When I launched itunes for the first time, it asked me if I wanted to find and convert existing audio files. I said yes, and the program located thousands of files and began converting wma's. I stopped it after a couple of hours, and everything that wasn't converted yet is now no longer showing up in queue in itunes. Is there a way to have itunes search my computer for these files and begin converting again, or do I now have to manually select every file I want to convert?

You could try resetting your preferences files, but that may start iTunes converting all the .WMA files from the start. But it may not. Not sure.
Resetting the iTunes Preference Files:
-- Quit iTunes
-- Delete C:\Documents and Settings\<your username>\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunes.pref
-- Delete C:\Documents and Settings\<your username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer Inc\iTunes.pref
You may need to enable 'Show Hidden Files/Folders' in Windows Explorer==>Tools menu==>Folder Options==>’View’ tab before you can see the Application Data & Local Settings folders.
This will force iTunes to run the setup assistance the next time you open it. You'll have to go back and re-set any preferences you want changed from the iTunes default. When you restart iTunes, it will perform its initial startup process. You can now let iTunes search for your music files.

Unsuccessful at taking wma file and converting for DVD playback

So my wife made a slideshow using Microsoft Movie maker. This program only will save the project for playback on your computer or emailing. So we ended up with a wma file. I took this into Premier Pro then exported to the encoder. I picked NTSC high quality and MPG2-DVD format. I picked dvd for multriplexing although I don't know what that does, I took the mpg quality slider from 4 to 5, and finally changed the audio to dolby digital. I end up with 4 files one is an m2v which I try and burn to dvd using the window burn dvd window but it will only play via my computer DVD drive.

Steve,
It sounds like Windows Movie Maker Live was used. The regular WMM will Export to DV-AVI Type I, which will Import into PrPro much better.
I would recommend converting the WMA/WMV to DV-AVI, and Importing that into a DV NTSC (if you are in NTSC-land) Project.
Then, you would use Encore to do the DVD authoring. There are several ways to get the material on your Sequence into Encore. ADL (Adobe Dynamic Link) is probably the easiest way to do this.
What is your exact workflow from PrPro, into Encore?
What brand of blank media are you burning the DVD to?
This ARTICLE will give you some tips.
Good luck, and let us know a bit more,
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PS - Multiplexing is the function of combining the Audio and the Video into one file. There are usually two choices, "None" and then often "DVD." For None, you will get two separate files - one for the Audio and one for the Video. With "DVD" you should get a muxed (combined) file. Actually, the separate Audio and Video is the preferred way, if one is doing an Export from PrPro, and then an Import to Encore. One would Import the Video into Encore as a Timeline, and the Audio as an Asset. In Encore, just drag the Audio file from the Project Panel to the appropriate Timeline, where it will snap into place.

Why my apple converter doesn't convert video

I got a rocketfish component cord for christmas and it has the old ipod hookup (not the lighting) and i put my lighting converter onto it and plugged in my ipod 5 and it would only play sound not video, but with my old display it works fine. Is there any way to fix this why is this happening

could I get a apple 30 pin AV adapter then stick 30 pin to lighting adapter on that to make it work with the rocketfish cable.

Apple Convert

I find myself quite shocked that I am writing this but in simple terms I have become a convert to all things Apple.
It started last year with the I-Phone , then earlier this year I bought a Macbook Pro and now two weeks into owning an Apple TV I am ready to sell my soul to Steve Jobs.
It's not that I ever had anything against the brand it just seemed that you had to be a certain type of person to own an Apple.
Where I'm from, it seemed to me that your zip code had a lot to do with branding ,your profession certainly seemed to come into play and in many cases sexual preferences too, most gay people I know own Apples !!.
I always felt that Apple owners looked down on Windows based people , now I know the feellings they had were not one of snobbery but ones of sadness as they had not been guided to the light as yet.
Well I am there now, I even believe that I won't be stealing movies and shows anymore. C'mon you all know that bit torrents are like masterbation , everyone does it whether they admit it or not.
I love my Apple TV and am hard pressed to think of ways to improve it bar one.
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trevnat

I can understand the joy you must be facing after converting to the Apple world.
I've been using computers since 1983, when I got my Commodore computer.
I moved to the PC world in the 1990s because I could build my own pc... Just buy what I could afford at the time till I had the perfect homebrew PC.
A year ago I was just tired of all the hassles of the PC world.. all the worries about viruses, etc. So I did my research and bought an Apple iMac.
I love my iMac. It helps that I spent extra money to get a 24" model, and increased the hard drive space and memory.
I've added a few external Firewire drives, and bought an Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS) to handle my network.
The AEBS allows you to connect an external USB hard drive... so you could easily share your stuff with other computers or devices.
Unfortunately I can't totally eliminate PCs from my home. Some of my software comes only in PC versions.
I have a homebrew Windows XP computer that will soon serve as my Entertainment PC. It will have all my muisc and movies, and play the movies on my HD TV.

I am a recent Apple convert and feel like I have been ripped off

I purchased a 13inch MacBook since I was getting a little bit tired of having to constantly reboot my PC. Bought a 13 inch MacBook in Nov 2008. Since this was my first Mac and did not have any other accessories/sofware etc from the pc world, I invested in buying all the accessories - duplicate power cords, apple care, more memory etc... all original ones from Apple (read expensive). I did not mind it since I was thinking that I will be using the MacBook for a long time. I recently found that my battery was not holding the charge and so I scheduled an appointment at the Genius bar at a local Apple store. I was told by my die hard Apple fans that enter all the details in and since you have Apple care, they will have a new battery waiting for you. I arrive at the designated time and (the person who was helping me had not even bothered to find out why I was there for - ok, granted he must have been busy). He sticks a usb drive and runs some program which tells him that the battery needs to be replaced. He then continues to tell me that the battery needs to be replaced and that I have an option to buy it at the store. I obviously asked him why I needed to buy when Applecare should have covered it. He rattled off some technical balther and finally it amounted to that the program he was running said that my battery had failed and Apple considers anything over 300 recharge cycles as having 'failed'. How in the world a common user like myself supposed to know this? When I challenged him to show where in Applecare this was stated...he pretended to look on the web and turned to a colleague of his for support and all they ended up doing was point me to the description for battery coverage for batteries under Applecare, which is quite vague. Here is my question - I have taken good care of my Macbook. I have seldom used it solely running on battery. I have always had the Macbook plugged in. Is'nt this unusual for my battery to fail this early and not being covered by Applecare?
I would have gladly purchased, had I known in advance what constituted failure- ie over 300 cycles etc..(though I would have questioned that this could be attributed to some manufacturing defect for it to fail so early). Why does not Apple state it as such as a part of the warranty description? This in my mind is a rip off.
I was planning a trip and did not want to be left without a battery so I was forced to buy one at $129. The gentlemen at the genius bar spoke to his manager and cut a deal for half the price. The whole incident has left a very sour taste for Apple's products and service - not sure if there are other similar surprises lurking in fine print in Applecare land.

bgrad wrote:
duplicate power cords, apple care, more memory etc... all original ones from Apple (read expensive).
In the future, ask about that stuff here first. Mac accessories (such as memory) are often different, but they shouldn't be any more money than the PC versions.
I was told by my die hard Apple fans that enter all the details in and since you have Apple care, they will have a new battery waiting for you.
It is not that automatic, but not far from it either.
I arrive at the designated time and (the person who was helping me had not even bothered to find out why I was there for - ok, granted he must have been busy). He sticks a usb drive and runs some program which tells him that the battery needs to be replaced. He then continues to tell me that the battery needs to be replaced and that I have an option to buy it at the store. I obviously asked him why I needed to buy when Applecare should have covered it. He rattled off some technical balther and finally it amounted to that the program he was running said that my battery had failed and Apple considers anything over 300 recharge cycles as having 'failed'. How in the world a common user like myself supposed to know this?
It sounds like you just had a loser. Complain about them and go to a different store. If you don't have another store handy, talk to the manager.
I would have gladly purchased, had I known in advance what constituted failure- ie over 300 cycles etc..(though I would have questioned that this could be attributed to some manufacturing defect for it to fail so early). Why does not Apple state it as such as a part of the warranty description? This in my mind is a rip off.
I was planning a trip and did not want to be left without a battery so I was forced to buy one at $129. The gentlemen at the genius bar spoke to his manager and cut a deal for half the price.
A spare battery is a good thing to have.
The whole incident has left a very sour taste for Apple's products and service - not sure if there are other similar surprises lurking in fine print in Applecare land.
Just avoid that store in the future. Most places are much better than that.
The real question here, the one that the "genius" didn't ask, is why you have a cycle count > 300. I have a 2006 Macbook, a 2007 Macbook, and one spare battery I bought sometime in 2006. The two batteries I have installed have cycle counts of 245 and 222, respectively. How can your 2008 Macbook have cycle count greater than 300? You should keep an eye on that.

New Apple Convert - Printing With Print Server

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Try using the following URL instead
192.168.0.3/P1
The P1 is important.
Or try this instead
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The P1 is important.
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When printing a photobook does Apple convert the images from RGB to CMYK?

I'm a little confused by Apple's Photobooks. Most printers require all images to be in the CMYK colourspace, since the inks used are always CMYK. Yet Apple requires Photobook images to be jpegs in the RGB colourspace. Does this mean Apple's printers (presumably plural, since they are all over the world) do some sort of autoconversion RGB to CMYK? Surely this would result in a major downgrading of quality? I've seen a few non-Apple photobooks printed with unconverted RGB images, and they look dreadful - overblown red and yellows, with awful colour casts. I've not seen an Apple Photobook myself, presumably the colours are realistic?
Comments anyone?

Quote from the Reference:
Linear Light
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Should I Recommend iMac To A Potential New Apple Convert?

My neighbor asked my opinion about purchasing a new desktop computer. I suggested the Apple iMac and they are going to make the plunge from Windows to Apple based on my suggestion.
I have a MacBook rather than an iMac so my only reference regarding the iMac is based on what I read on these forums and web sites like MacWorld etc.
Is this a good time for my neighbors to purchase an iMac? I've been reading about people having issues with the display, and possibly a new line coming out in the near future, as well as several other issues.
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File converter found for wma to aac

I posted earlier about getting my previously purchased (protected .wma files) synced on my iPod.
I found a file converter for $14.95 that is so far working for me!
It's called Sound Taxi. Basically it converts several formats to mp3, and does some other file conversion as well that you might find useful.
soundtaxi.info is their website.
I found it useful, anyway. I tried it out on one protected .wma, and it worked just fine.
It is kind of slow, but it's better than burning cd's back from my hard drive, or finding all the original cd's...
Hope it helps someone!

THeres afew issues here going on, I'll cover the basics first.
iTunes does not support WMA, it will convert them instead so you can play them in itunes. Theres 2 main reasons for this 1 is WMA is a format made by microsoft, any player supporting the format has to pay microsoft whats called a royalty fee, apple is not about to do this because reason 2, apple has there own format with a royalty fee and thats AAC.
AAC is more compact than a MP3 but its not universally supported by software and devices like MP3 is. So you have to choose if you want to stay with AAC to save space on your PC or go with MP3 so you can have one format you can play in iTUnes, WMP and other programs/devices.
In iTUnes if you goto Edit>Preference>advanced tab>Import sub tab you can change it from AAC to MP3 so all WMA file you add are converted to MP3 (As well as all future songs you add, like from CDs).
All WMA files that are converted will make 2 copies. iTUnes will leave the original WMA file on the PC and put the COPY of the converted file (Be it AAC or MP3) In My Music>iTUnes>iTUnes music folder. SO once converted you might want to delete the wma files or take them off the PC and put them on a backup disc if you wish to save on harddrive space

Best WMA to MP3 batch converter for MacBook Pro

Half of the music that I've collected over the years, and now transferred onto my new MacBook Pro, is in the WMA format.
I am looking for a program that can batch convert ALL of these files to MP3, putting the MP3s in the same folders as the WMA files currently are, and then I will delete the WMA files.
Is there any program that can help me with this? At the moment I can only listen to half of my songs in iTunes!
Many thanks

EasyWMA is a popular one for the Mac. Switch can also do it.
Or, if you happen to have access to a PC, iTunes for Windows can convert WMA to MP3, after which you can bring the MP3 files to your Mac on a flash drive..
then I will delete the WMA files.
It's about time.
Steve - one additional note: Make sure your files are normal unprotected WMA files, since protected WMA cannot be converted. Protected WMAs could have happened if you ever ripped a CD using the default settings of Windows Media Player, or if you ever bought tracks from one of the many (now-defunct) online stores that sold songs in protected WMA format.

ITunes WMA lossless and compilation albums

I'm fairly new to apple stuff, so I thought using iTunes would be a breeze after WMP11. But iTunes is not very good; it wants to convert all my WMAs, can't convert lossless WMAs and keeps splitting up compilation albums like NOW 66. I only use iTunes to get music on to my daughters’ new 3 gen iPod Nano. I did think about getting the hudge capacity classic but I think not as iTunes has severely let me down. I only wish WMP11 could talk directly to the iPod!!

iTunes doesn't like WMA files, so it will try to convert them to AAC or MP3. The latter is best as you can still use them on WMA or iTunes.
As for compilations, if you highlight all of the Now66 tracks, right click and select "get info", you'll see down in the bottomleft a box saying "Compilations" - toggle that to yes and it'll show them all together.
Hope this helps
jb

Importing wma files to iTunes

Back when i was a PC user, i copied all the music i love off my CDs onto my PC (don't recall what program I used to do so) and then threw away the CDs. When i converted to Mac, many of these songs didn't import to iTunes. They appear to be .wma files. Since i've already thrown away the CDs, is there any way to keep/play my music in iTunes or am i out of luck? It'll cost me a fortune to re-buy all these songs one at a time.

Dude im so sorry to hear abt that, but you did de wrong thing in the right time "BECAUSE"
THE Windows Media Player is now avaliable for MAC users!!!
if the WMA Files dont convert to the ACC format or doesnt work in iTunes... getting WM Player (for MAC) Will be ur best bet!
you find it on http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/
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