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 #83965  by Imakeholesinu
 Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:18 pm
My buddy jason gave me some music but he used windows media player to rip it off the CD's, thus putting it into wma format. I was curious if I could get it into .wav some how or possibly even just straight into mp3? Anyone know of any conversion programs out there that'll do that? I've got CDeX which I use to rip all of my CD's and it does do .wav to mp3 conversion but it doesn't do .wma at all. Any help would be much appreciated.

 #84050  by SineSwiper
 Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:20 am
CoolEdit? I'm not sure if it can read WMA.
 #84076  by ManaMan
 Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:13 am
Using Windows you could burn it to an audio CD and rip the tracks (using some other software) as MP3s... Still, I think there would be 3-second gaps between the songs from burning with Windows... not to mention a slight loss in audio quality.
 #84079  by SineSwiper
 Fri Mar 04, 2005 9:09 am
ManaMan wrote:Still, I think there would be 3-second gaps between the songs from burning with Windows... not to mention a slight loss in audio quality.
The 3 second gaps would be a part of the CD standard, not the wave data itself. You can set whatever gaps you want on a CD, though the first gap (the one before the first song) needs to be at least 2 seconds.

I know this because on Nero, it automatically sets 2 second gaps on all of the songs, which I immediately disable.