Re: converting wma files to mp3

From: zachd [ms] (zachd_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/04/04


Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:34:58 -0800


Which WinAMP? Last I checked, WinAMP had a WMA plug-in...
Click the "Learn More About MP3 Formats" if you want to purchase an MP3
encoder for use with WMP.

For conversion purposes, check your favorite search engines. There's many
apps that will do this for you.

-Zach

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"gonesh9" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:29B4899C-F7DA-4E18-A202-B21775452B2F@microsoft.com...
> hey-  I had a friend just come visit, and let me record some of his CD's 
> onto my computer.  I used WMP9, and now have realized that the files are 
> all in wma format.  I can listen to them here at home, but I burned a CD 
> with those songs and took them to work, and they wouldn't play on Winamp 
> that we have there.  Is there any way to convert these files to MP3 or 
> something that winamp will recognize?  Why doesn't WMP9 give me the option 
> of copying CDs to the computer with any other format (the "copy settings" 
> box is not highlighted).
>
> Thanks so much for any help.
> casey 


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