converting mp3 or wav to windows media files

[dvanscoten]

anyone know how to convert an mp3 or wav file to a windows media file- .wma, .wmv or .asf for MAC OSX?


thanks--dvs


http://www.dvsbeatz.com

[longjohns]

i can't help but ask

why would you want to create such a file

[djwatt]

good question longjohns.. but was wondering, could WMA better than MP3? or the other way around? thanks

[paq]

anyone know how to convert an mp3 or wav file to a windows media file- .wma, .wmv or .asf for MAC OSX?

please dont do this. mp3 is standard anyway, and a re-convert could just make the quality worse.

i use dbpoweramp for conversion of anything. knows all the formats and is pretty fast, and uses lame. and it costed me just 15$ 5 years ago. great program.

[djwatt]

thanks paq.. so guess that means mps is much better.. and guess the program is now worth more than a hundred just to download!

[paq]

technically all the other codecs are better then mp3 (wma, aac, ogg, mpc), but this effects most on high compression/low sample rates which is to avoid anyway. if u use lame preset extreme u wont hear any difference.

to ur second sentence, i dont know what u want to say. i see its gotten more expensive now. but there seems to be a free version as well.

[nednerb]

For MacOS, MAX converter might do the trick. It's the best open source for MacOS I've seen. I didn't just now look up whether it does windows media format, but it might.

Peace