A/V Converting WMA to MP3

So i got a new phone today, which is an MP3 player - however most of my music collection is in WMA format, and I need it in MP3. I know iTunes does it...but I don't like itunes.

Any idea? I don't want to re-rip all of my CD's or install iTunes

 

I would just install Itunes load library to it. Save that to a folder dlete itunes.

 

You could try dbpoweramp with the windows media codec plugin, always works well for just about any conversions I need to make.

 

Ahhhh looks good, thanks mate

*hands over e-cookie*

 

CDex will convert them I think

 

fwiw, i would consider reripping any music you can rerip - crosscoding music is generally a bad thing.

if you must, use a higher bitrate to minimise quality loss (ie, if it's a 128k WMA go to 192k mp3).

i could go into the technical reasons behind this, but google can say it far better than i can.

 

http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

But unless you have really good quality WMA's I'd re rip from the CD's as you'll get a much better result, Maybe you should consider re ripping to FLAC or something else that's lossless and then you can transcode to MP3's at any bit rate (or any other file type whit the same quality as straight from the CD) that way if you buy a device in the futre that you want a different formail or quality for you can easily transcode again

 

i like jetaudio for this. it has a really nice simple gui for ripping and transcoding