Changing File Format?
[494 byte] By [Gooner4_1998] at [2007-11-9 14:29:47] 
Just got my ipod and i'm currently trying to download my music onto it but i've only managed to get about half of it on. I assume the reason for this is that i used windows media player to rip my CD's onto my computer and hence these files are wma ones. Is there anyway of changing these to a file format that's compatible with the ipod? Also if there is, is there a way of doing all of them at once rather than one at a time? Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanx!
# 1 Re: Changing File Format?
i use cdex to rip my cds to mp3 format. You could try right clicking on the wma file and renaming to .mp3 not sure if that will work though!kingaknaa at 2007-11-15 17:40:37 >
# 2 Re: Changing File Format?
Originally posted by Gooner4_1998 Just got my ipod and i'm currently trying to download my music onto it but i've only managed to get about half of it on. I assume the reason for this is that i used windows media player to rip my CD's onto my computer and hence these files are wma ones. Is there anyway of changing these to a file format that's compatible with the ipod? Also if there is, is there a way of doing all of them at once rather than one at a time? Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanx!
Simple answer is re-rip your CD's. Sucks but you don't have much in the way of choice there. Use a quality ripper like EAC/LAME or MC9. It will take some time but you probably will only do it once and it is worth it.
And now that you are an IPod user realize your days of using WMA are all over.
SpideyPod at 2007-11-15 17:41:37 >
# 3 Re: Changing File Format?
I had the same porblem when i got my ipod. I had ripped about 30 cd's with windows media 9 and didn't want to re rip all the cd's. There is a program i used called Audio Conversion Wizard. It worked really good, but i didn't feel like purchasing it so i only used the beta. You can only convert 5 songs at a time with the trial version so it will take a while if you do it the same way i did. Hope that helps.Ross
Choppy at 2007-11-15 17:42:46 >
# 4 Re: Changing File Format?
You'll lose some serious quality from the original if you convert from one lossy codec (WMA, AAC, MP3, etc.) to another. It's like saving a picture as a JPEG over and over again, or photo-copying a picture over and over again. It's highly recommended to convert it from the original WAV or AIFF (via the CD, etc.).bracken at 2007-11-15 17:43:39 >
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