Converting MP3 to WMA

I have a new phone and it only plays WMA audio files. I cannot seem to find a converter that will convert MP3 to WMA. It seems like all the converters I find for macs do every other conversion but that one.

Hi Makemusic,
The only app out there for Windows media conversion so far as I know are the products offered by Flip4Mac. Specifically, the product you would be most likely interested in is the WMV Studio. It should easily accomplish your exporting needs. However, it comes with a $50 price tag. Good Luck!
--Justin S.

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Is there a way to convert a MP3 to a WMA. My cell phone will only recognize WMA files. I have a Micro SD card I can put the files onto, I just need to convert the files to WMA. Yes I have Windows Media Player installed (version 9), but can't figure out how to get the music to play through it.

I poked around the web a little and it looks to be kind of hard to get technical specs on mp3s for this phone. I had a Moto Razr V3xx a while back and it was kind of finicky about playing music files.
I imagine that the phone will play mp3's, but only at particular bit rates. Basically, they have slimmed down the music player to run faster on the phone by only equipping it to play a limited set of mp3 or wma settings.
When an mp3 is made of a song, it is encoded digitally with a couple of options. The Bit size and the Sample rate are the two that are adjusted most often. Bit size is how much information is captured about the sound you are hearing and the sample rate is how often the information is captured. These can be varied depending on a trade-off between audio quality VS file size.
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Then AudioExtract to rip the audio off (in AIFF format).
I add the new file to iTunes and convert it to .mp3, sometimes.
It's all freeware, but it'll ask you every time to donate or purchase.
There are no restrictions on iSquint.
There is a 3 file limit on AudioExtract. But all you have to do is quit after the first one and open it again.
Before I had AudioExtract, I'd import the .mp4 into iMovie and put in in a movie file and extract audio that way.

How do I convert an mp3 or WMA file to a m4a file?

I read on another forum that iTunes can convert mp3 and wma files to m4a format.
How do I do this?

That is correct.
By default if you load a .wma file into iTunes, it will AUTOMATICALLY convert it to another format first, since it needs to in order to play it. However, you can also convert any other file format that iTunes supports, assuming it can get loaded into iTunes.
To set what format you want to convert to, go EDIT->PREFERENCES. Click the IMPORT SETTINGS button and select which encoder you want (AAC, MP3, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV are supported) and then select the bit rate if you are choosing a lossy format (AAC/MP3).
From there, any .wma files you load into iTunes (you can do this by going into iTunes and selecting FILE-> ADD FILE TO LIBRARY, or simply right clicking a .wma file and OPEN WITH iTunes) will convert to that format. ALSO, if you have any other files already in iTunes you wish to convert, select the file(s), and go to ADVANCED -> CREATE ___ VERSION (the blank being whatever you selected before) and it will convert for you.
Remember, converting a lower quality song to a higher quality format/bit rate won't "up-covert" any quality, the lowest quality you start with is the highest you can possibly get, but if you still prefer to have a certain file format or bit rate to compress to, this is the feature you'd use!
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so if there is any program like this, iu would greatly appretiate it.
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Hello All,
I'm new at using iTunes, used to listen to my music in flac format with a Sandisk Sansa Clip+ (with a Rockbox rom).
I've burned some of my CDs in mp3 and wma formats before burning them all again but in flac.
Now with my brand new iPhone 5 16Go, I guess I'm better of using compressed format for keeping requiring space as little as possible.
But in the online help http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1550 the steps, describing how to convert files in aac or whatsoever, make me lost.
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Create MP3 version
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Only Create AC version remains dimmed if I don't have any songs in my Library.
Therefore where am I supposed to press down Option key to make appearing the Advanced>Convert Import preference setting ?
I'm lost.
The only I found is to Add to Library, then Create new version, create AAC version.
Thanks for your help.
Kind Regards.

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"Because wma files take less space than mp3 files. "
That is a myth. For lower bitratrate files, such as 6 kbps or 32 kbps, WMA files will sound a bit better than mp3 files at the same bitrate. Files at such low bitrates are typically lectures and podcasts, and not music. Music files are usually 28 kbps and up. At
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