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    Please help me!!! MP3 TO WMA

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by CustomPC888, Oct 17, 2008.

  1. CustomPC888

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    hey i have some questions converting MP3 TO WMA i know how to do it its just ive tried 4 programs and the shorten the song!!! You can hear the diffrence!!!
    before converting its like 4:14 and then 3.14i going mad please help


    Thanks!!
     
    CustomPC888, Oct 17, 2008
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    Have you tried using VLC? Always works for me.
     
    Lithus, Oct 17, 2008
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    I always use Mediacoder. It's never failed me.
     
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    Why do you want to do this? MP3 is much more universally-supported than WMA, and you will lose quality in the conversion.
     
    swarmer, Oct 17, 2008
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    Have you tried Windows Audio Converter?
     
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    my itunes keeps skipping this album e.g. i play a song and after 20 seconds it skips to the next one frustrating but when i change it to a difrent format i can play it
     
    CustomPC888, Oct 18, 2008
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    and windows quicktime etc plays it correct without skiping
     
    CustomPC888, Oct 18, 2008
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    Then ditch iTunes.

    WMP11, Winamp, J River Jukebox, and RealPlayer 11 are all better anyway.

    (iTunes doesn't play WMA though anyway... so I don't get it.)
     
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    OMG when i put it in mediacoder and it also and it also shortens the songs omg omg whats the problem ??
     
    CustomPC888, Oct 18, 2008
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    Probably whatever is making iTunes barf on these files is also making the converters barf.

    Re-encode from source.
     
    swarmer, Oct 18, 2008
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    whay do you mean re encode ?? but the song are playing fine in windows media player
     
    CustomPC888, Oct 18, 2008
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    oh i was downloading it through u torrent but i turned the song on in i tunes at 87% so maybe i tunes i automatically skipping though now its 100% is there a way to delete like the history or something. And also when i manually jump over the skipping part it plays
     
    CustomPC888, Oct 18, 2008
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    anybody? common
     
    CustomPC888, Oct 18, 2008
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