Hi all,
While I'm happily looking forward to the eventual archiving of the Direct Voice recordings, in the meantime I was trying to convert the ones from the newsletter from .wmv Windows Media to .mp3 that I can put on my iPod. There are several utilities that say they can do it, but for whatever reason I've been utterly unable to actually get a successful conversion.
I could certainly use something like Audio Hijack to re-encode the sound as it plays, but with...how many? 54? recordings in my DV folder, that's a lot of recording to do in realtime...
Has anybody tried this? Anybody successfully gotten mp3s out of them? What software worked for you? Mac or Windows, I've got 'em both so that's no obstacle.
Thanks!
Pres
Quote from: PresNevinsHi all,
While I'm happily looking forward to the eventual archiving of the Direct Voice recordings, in the meantime I was trying to convert the ones from the newsletter from .wmv Windows Media to .mp3 that I can put on my iPod. There are several utilities that say they can do it, but for whatever reason I've been utterly unable to actually get a successful conversion.
I could certainly use something like Audio Hijack to re-encode the sound as it plays, but with...how many? 54? recordings in my DV folder, that's a lot of recording to do in realtime...
Has anybody tried this? Anybody successfully gotten mp3s out of them? What software worked for you? Mac or Windows, I've got 'em both so that's no obstacle.
Thanks!
Pres
Try with Cool edit PRO i can send you crack for it via mail
What is this Direct Voice recording you speak of? Where did you get it and what does it do?
There's a link to the the files at the top page of this site. (But now that I look, there's not actually a link to the non-forum part of Astral Pulse, here in the forum... :smile: )
The Direct Voice page (http://www.astralpulse.com/directvoicerecordings.html) has a whole slew of recordings in Windows Media format (Windows Audio 9 to be precise). The link explains it all in much more detail than I can. They're quite fun to listen to.
And I'd actually found a free utility that was working for doing the conversions, but now I've misplaced it... It's been a busy month!
Pres
Ah cool thank you very much
Just an update, to help people who might want to do the same thing: If you have iTunes on a Windows machine with Windows Media 9 or better installed, iTunes will automatically convert any (?) .wma files you drag into the library, and you can put them on the iPod from there.
I'm running a Mac, so I used Virtual PC with Windows 2000, set the iTunes music library to point to my VPC shared folder on the Mac side, and let it take it from there. I had it convert them to .aac format files to keep them small, and Mac iTunes is of course happy with these.
Why can't you do it on just a Mac? Because Microsoft only makes a bare-bones v9 player for the Mac, and iTunes has no way of accessing those files without the full Windows Media support that's missing. Such is life. But convoluted as it is, this system works and I'm happy! :grin:
Pres
I use a program called "free MP3 WMA converter" that I found on Download.com and it works very well. It does WMA to MP3 and vice versa, plus other audio formats. And it's free.
I bought an Archos Gmini 402 instead of an I-Pod to avoid all these conversion problems. It plays everything.