Even if you’re extremely careful about downloading only music which is compatible with your player, there comes a moment when you need to convert audio files from one format to another. And if you have never used this kind of software before, you may feel a little bit lost at the beginning: which program should I use? Will it have support for this or that?

Free MP3 WMA Converter is probably one of the best answers one could give to these questions. In spite of being quite plain both in aspect and functionalities, this little app does its job and does it well. So don’t let yourself be fooled by its simplicity and spare us five minutes to take a deeper look.

The process of installing Free MP3 WMA Converter follows the standard steps and includes the possibility of also installing Pando, a free tool to share large files through e-mail. But you can simply skip that point if you’re not interested in it.

Once installed on your system, the program allows you to choose the interface language, a nice feature for non-English speakers. However, it wouldn’t be really necessary, as Free MP3 WMA Converter is incredibly simple to use: first, select the files you want to convert; then, choose the target format; finally, click on the “Convert” button. Easy as pie! Plus, the conversion itself is surprisingly fast. The program even displays a neat progress bar so that you can control the whole process in detail.

If there is a drawback to Free MP3 WMA Converter, it’s the range of supported formats. Only six of them (AAC, APE, MP3, Ogg, WAV and WMA) but at least they’re the most used and popular ones. Besides, the program features separate conversion options for each one of them, so you can always achieve the quality of sound you wanted. Another thing this program lacks is having a wider choice of options, such as volume normalization, a built-in tag editor or other similar extra functions that can be found in most conversion tools.

In short, if you’re looking for an audio file converter and don’t know where to begin, just give Free MP3 WMA Converter a chance. It may suit your needs, as long as they’re simple enough.

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Free WMA MP3 Converter transforms annoying WMA audio files to Mp3 format so you can play them in iTunes. You’ll appreciate how easy it is to search for WMA files, select the bitrate, one of the 3 sample rates available and start converting. The whole process is fairly quick and is presented to you in a little pop up window, which can be minimized to tray. The tag editor is where you can add information such as title, artist or genre. You can batch convert as many files as you want. Once the operation is complete you can check file size and duration of the file and make sure the conversion has been successful.

The majority of audio file converters support all audio file types and can convert to dozens of audio formats in a large range of bitrates and sample rates. Free WMA MP3 Converter is only useful for one type of conversion. This program is great if you have loads of music files in the Windows Media format and are looking for a quick way of converting them to the more common MP3 format. If you’re looking for a versatile audio converter however you should turn to Xilisoft Audio Converter, Switch Free or AudioConvert. And Free WMA MP3 Converter only works one way, so if you’re looking to turn MP3s into WMA, check out Free MP3 WMA Converter.

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With a plethora of portable music players around and the different type of audio file formats they each play, you're bound to have to convert your tracks every now and then. Switch has the advantage of being free and allowing you to quickly batch convert audio tracks. We were impressed by the number of output formats, more than a dozen, with all the common file types like mp3, wma or aac available. You'll also be able to set the bitrate, once again choosing from more than a dozen options and more importantly with a choice of variable or constant bitrate. Switch also features an error protection feature to enhance your recordings.

The toolbox feature is supposed to help you perform any audio task, but all it really does is automatically install extra software from the developer. We suggest using it only if you know precisely what you want to do and are ready to install a new application. Switch also has a feature to add CD album details from the freeDB database. Even though we tried it on a few well known tracks, it didn't really work.

Despite these drawbacks, Switch is a speedy audio converter with many features.

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Monkey’s Audio is a lossless audio compressor which aims to reduce the size of audio files as much as possible without losing any sound quality. The program uses its own file format, .ape, which is known to have a better compression rate than the lossless FLAC format, but files tend to be larger than lossy compression formats like MP3 or AAC.

We recommend using Monkey’s Audio to compress audio CDs to your PC. Your songs will not lose their quality but will take up less space than if they were uncompressed. What’s more, Monkey’s Audio handles tag support, keeping all your file information, like artist name, track numbers and playing time.

Monkey’s Audio can decompress files back to their original type without losing any quality and the program features an option to verify the MD5 checksum of compressed files. Compressed .ape files can play in any of the major media players and the program can also install a plug-in to compress audio files directly from Winamp.

Monkey’s Audio is a great solution if you’re worried about losing any quality when compressing audio files. However, because it only compresses to .ape, you’re pretty much stuck with playing your converted files on your PC. To enjoy them on your mobile music player you’ll have to use another program, like dbpowerAMP Music Converter or Switch Free, to convert your audio files to MP3 or AAC, which remain the most widely supported audio formats.

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Forgot about bulky CD's with your new MP3 player? We have something you will find a useful add-on to your passion: Total Audio Converter.

With it you will be able to rip your CD's and convert tracks to mp3 or other formats. Convert between more than 30 audio formats, change bit rate or frequency of your songs!

All done in batches to save your time and effort. Command line support. Download your FREE full optional trial copy now to make your own opinion about the tool.

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Often called a Swiss army knife of Audio, dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC) is able to many things at once. Not limited to just converting audio formats it can also rip CDs, normalize audio and edit tags. Here is a full list of its features:

• Rip digitally sound from Audio CDs and store in a multitude of formats, dMC is the Fastest CD Ripper and now AccurateRip Compatible.
• Convert from one format to another, just about every audio type is supported: mp3, mp4, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Monkeys Audio, FLAC and many others [Codec downloads], whilst preserving ID Tags.
• Volume Normalize audio files.
• Windows Explorer Integration - right click Convert To & popup useful info on audio files.
• ID tag editing [Power Pack Option].
• Record from LPs or anything.
• Fully compatible with Windows 95/98/ME NT4/2000, Windows XP and Linux (using Wine).

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MP3 To Ringtone Master enables you to create your own ringtones by converting your MP3, WAVE files and CD tracks to the most common Ringtone format, including MMF, AMR, MP3, MIDI, WAV, AAC, 3GP and MP4. The contained CD Ripper extracts digital audio CD tracks to audio formats of WAV and MP3 with excellent output quality and high ripping speed, and the MP3 Compressor can reduce the size of MP3 files by 30%-70%, save valuable space for your Mobile Phone, and batch conversion supports.

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FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player (or your car or home stereo, see supported devices) just like you would an MP3 file.

FLAC is freely available and supported on most operating systems, including Windows, "unix" (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, OS X, IRIX), BeOS, OS/2, and Amiga. There are also build systems for autotools, MSVC, Watcom C, and Project Builder.

The next generation of audio compressors is here.

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Xilisoft Audio Converter provides an easy and complete way to convert between all of the popular audio formats, such as MP3, WAV, WMA, MP4, M4A, MP2, VQF, APE, OGG, AAC and FLAC.

One of the benefits is that the audio converter supports converting m4a to mp3, mp4 to mp3. The audio converter supports ID3 tag, all ID3 tags in the original files will be reserved after the conversion. In addition, you also can convert video formats including AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF to all popular audio files with Xilisoft Audio Converter. All conversion processes are very easy to handle and fast.

Features:

• Convert between MP3, M4A, WAV, WMA, MP4, MP2, VQF, APE, OGG, AAC and FLAC
• Convert AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF to MP3, WAV, WMA, MP4, M4A, MP2, VQF, APE, OGG, AAC and FLAC
• Support batch conversion
• Copy ID3 tag between audio formats (reserve ID3 tag during conversion)
• When converting to MP3, bitrate, VBR or CBR, stereo or mono are selectable
• You can select the compression method, sample rate, bitrate, stereo or mono when converting to WAV
• Allow users to select whether delete the original files

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Have you ever listened to a radio broadcast or Realplayer stream and wanted to capture it for replay later? Well RM to Mp3 Converter is just what you need to do the job quickly and efficiently.

The converter features hi-performance multithreaded buffered RM-converting & encoding plus flexible converting speeds. Converting from real format to Mp3 is particularly fast.

It also features free drag and drop features plus the option to configure the Mp3 encoder with custom settings. To get the job done quickly, it also supports batch converting so get your Real clips out and turn them into Mp3's now!

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Power MP3 WMA Converter is a professional audio conversion tool. With its fast and convenient conversion among mp3, wma, wav, ogg, ape, asf(audio part), wmv(udio part) and CD audio can be achieved. By using high quality encoder and decoder, the minimum sound quality loss during converting can be ensured. And the simple and friendly interface make it easy to use.

Power MP3 WMA Converter can burn mp3, wma, wav, ogg, ape, asf (audio part), wmv(udio part) files to cd directly, and it can also rip CD into one of the format directly.
Besides conversion, its other useful functions are edit of tag information, auto renaming with tag information, and so on.

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MP3Coder is a powerful full-featured WAV-to-MP3 encoder. The program maintains MPEG1 and MPEG2 formats, all constant and variable bitrates (8-320 bps). There are Presets for those who don't want to understand subtleties of MP3 formats. Convenient ID3v1 tag and file name editor is available. Use MP3Coder with ease by meanes of multilanguage interface and Help.

MP3Coder uses LAME as default MP3 encode engine. LAME is a freeware project which provides high compression speed and perfect sound quality.

Short features:

• WAV to MP3 encoding
• Supports MPEG1 and MPEG2 and all constant and variable bitrates (8-320)
• Supports ID3v1 tag (Artist/Title/Genre and so on)
• Filename editor
• Multi-language interface
• Presets

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This evaluation software is for personal and non-commercial use and is intended to demonstrate the MP3 Surround technology available at Fraunhofer IIS. MP3 Surround provides a multi-channel listening experience with a minimum of extra bitrate and maximum compatibility.

MP3 Surround supports high-quality multi-channel sound at bit rates comparable to those currently used to encode stereo MP3 material, resulting in files half the size of common compressed surround formats. At the same time, the new format offers complete backward compatibility to any existing MP3 software and hardware devices.

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Easy Video to Audio Converter is a tool designed to extract audio from all video/audio files to MP3, WAV, WMA and OGG formats. The application supports AVI (DivX, XviD, MPEG4...), MPEG I/II, RealMedia (RM, RMVB), WMV, ASF, VCD (DAT), DVD (VOB), QuickTime (MOV) video formats.

It's very useful for those people who collect many music VIDEOs and want to save a sound segment from VIDEO for some reasons. Easy Video to Audio Converter supports splitting a part of video file to audio file. With a small video player built-in, you can set begin-time/end-time just when pre-listening the file. Converting in high precision and no quality is lost.

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Convert MP3, WAV, WMA, and OGG Vorbis audio formats from one to another on-the-fly. Drag batches of audio files from the file explorer and drop them into this window, with a simple click, the files would be converted within seconds. Also supports editing MP3's ID3 tags and normalizing WAVs.

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If you are the type of person who always changes your mobile ring-tone, this application is a must-have for you. EZ Ringtone allows you to convert music, either from CD tracks or mp3 file, to different ring-tone formats compatible with all modern devices.

The interface is really clear and simple: you just have to open an audio file to have an image of the right and left channel. Then select the part of your music you would like to convert to a ring-tone and press the format button compatible with your mobile. That’s it.

It’s annoying though that the trial version limits the duration of ring-tones to 5 seconds and it is a shame that there is not even a simple editing tool. It would have been good, for example, to have the possibility of mixing different parts of a song or maybe different titles as well. A fading or echo effect to end the recording would have made the final ring-tone a bit more ’professional’.

The tool that compresses MP3 files size from 30% up to 70% is also useful, saving valuable space on your mobile phone in case it’s not yet as capacious as a proper MP3 player.

Don’t be bored with your ring-tone ever again and drive all your co-workers mad with your favourite songs!

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GoGo MP3 To CD Burner is a freeware tool that helps you to create normal audio CDs from your favorite MP3, WMA, WAV, or Ogg files. You can then play them in your regular stereo or car CD player.

Simply add the songs you want onto the main screen, hit the Burn button, and in a short time you will have a custom CD! With GoGo MP3 To CD Burner, you can choose to burn about 80-minute audio CDs on either CDR/RW discs. There is no need to convert to WAV! Your CD is burned directly saving your hard drive space.

This is what this program has to offer:

• Good MP3 sound quality and compatibility with our improved MPG3 decoder
• Burn bit for bit copying from your original, keep the best quality of the original
• Fast speed decoding and low memory usage
• Direct burning, no tempory WAV files involved, saving your hard disk life
• Over 1200 CDR/RW drives are supported
• Burn Proof Technology
• Small package size, beautiful and easy-to-use graphic user interface
• Create normal audio CDs from your favorite MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, APE, VQF, MP4 files. Play them on your car or home stereo and listen to them anywhere any time!

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AnyMP4 Media Converter is a powerful tool for video conversion operations. Media Convert supports media file of all formats to be converted into formats of MP4, 3GP, Xvid, Divx, WMV, AVI, RM, RMVB, MPEG1, MPEG2, VOB, VCD, DVD, ASF, MP3, MP2, WAV, OGG, AAC, RAM. Media Convert also allows you to look up detailed information of media files.

The strengths of Media Convert include:

• It converts at high speed, and results in pictures and sounds of outstanding quality after finishing conversion
• It is easy to operate, with friendly interface. It also allows you to view video pictures synchronously while conversions take place. In addition, you can set to shut off computer after conversion if you are not sitting beside
• It allows you to setup your own parameters for each format, which satisfies needs of end-users, no matter beginners or fans who require results of different quality. We offer timely after-sales services and technical supports. Media Convert is an essential software tool for filmgoers and movie-directors

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Advanced MP3 Converter converts audio formats such as MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, APE, MPC, CUE, AAC, MP4, M4A, TTA, AC3, FLAC, OptimFROG, Speex, WavPack, ALAC etc from one format to another. Audio format conversion is performed directly without any temporary files. The program supports editing MP3 id3 v1, MP3 id3 v2, APE, MP4, and WMA tags. It features automatic volume normalization when converting, making it best for burning high quality CDs.

Features of the app:

• Fast conversion speed
• ALAC support
• Best audio codecs support
• Supports batch conversion
• Drag-and-drop support
• Automatic volume normalization when converting
• Automatic resampling when converting
• ID3 tag v2 support
• Winamp playlists support
• Full playback function

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Ease Audio Converter is a powerful audio converter, which can convert audio formats MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, AAC ,APE,FLAC,MP2,MP4, M4A,MPC(MusePack),AC3, TTA, ofr(OptimFROG), SPX(Speex), Ra(Real audio), and WavePack from one to another.

It can convert from MP3 to WAV and OGG, and WAV to MP3 and WMA. It has a recording function that allows you to record from line-in (cassette, LP, etc.) streaming audio, or any other source available on your system. Use the audio recording feature to record MIDI, audio file protected by DRM to another audio format:mp3,wav,wma. Other helpful features include audio-volume normalization, resampling, and supports 5.1 or 7.1 channels WMA file, the ability to edit tag information, and autorenaming with tag information.

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