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is it possible to change .wma files to .mp3 files cuz if its possible it would be a whole lot easier!

There is a small tool called CDEx you may like

I used to use CDEx until it refused to RIP from my new drives.  I now use dBpowerAMP.  You can find all the utilities there.

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Originally posted by azn angel
is it possible to change .wma files to .mp3 files cuz if its possible it would be a whole lot easier!

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Yes it is posible. I have Musicmatch Jukebox. It has it's own built in converter. Musicmatch Jukebox Download

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Originally posted by Garndell
I now use dBpowerAMP.

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A great package; I use it myself. Won't work on licensed WMAs though

Advanced MP3 Converter is a good program too, I recomend it

whats the difference between mp3 and wma? cant you put more mp3 songs on a CD-R? that would be handy or do you need more ezpensive disks for mp3's?

MP3 is a format designed by Apple, and doesn't offer content protection.
WMA is a Microsoft format, and is supposed to have better compression. Whether it does or not is debatable, but it does have support for content protection.

Both support ID tags of some sort, and are supported by most players. WMA support on Linux is somewhat lacking, but that's because WMA is an MS format.

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Originally posted by raceprouk
MP3 is a format designed by Apple, and doesn't offer content protection.
WMA is a Microsoft format, and is supposed to have better compression. Whether it does or not is debatable, but it does have support for content protection.

Both support ID tags of some sort, and are supported by most players. WMA support on Linux is somewhat lacking, but that's because WMA is an MS format.

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MP3 is short for Moving Picture Experts Group, Audio Layer III, and is a compression format that shrinks audio files with only a small sacrifice in sound quality. MP3 files can be compressed at different rates, but the more they are scrunched, the worse the sound quality. A standard MP3 compression is at a 10:1 ratio, and yields a file that is about 4 MB for a three-minute track.

It all started in the mid-1980s, at the Fraunhofer Institut in Erlangen, Germany, which began work on a high quality, low bit-rate audio coding with the help of Dieter Seitzer, a professor at the University of Erlangen. In 1989, Fraunhofer was granted a patent for MP3 in Germany and a few years later it was submitted to the International Standards Organization (ISO), and integrated into the MPEG-1 specification.

Sourced from: MP3 Overview