Convert WMA files into something useful

Yay, go cascade encoding!

No, seriously, it ain't a good idea. First encoding something into WMA and then applying AAC/MP3/whatever-except-WAV-or-AIFF encoding will render the sound quality very very bad, all but regardless of what application you use.

If you have to do it, be sure to use high bitrate files and encodings..

You mean the newest iTunes can convert WMA to MP3 for the mac? I should try that.

i bought this program a few weeks ago. does a great job. the sound quality will never be better than the wma/v file. the settings i use is 192 mp4a. it seems to be at best at these settings

WARNING, this program changes my default app settings for windows media files. i ended up deleting it from my HD and just work with it through the dmg when i needed it. this program does not work well with opera. even after i changed mime settings using 'default apps' and changing the settings in opera, wma/v files still open with easyWMA. drove me nuts

I'm surprised someone actually has a Real Audio file that is something other than a link to a stream.

I would like to see drag and drop batch processing for video files, although that is understandably a lot more complex. Maybe something that would toss its file info into a tab delimited file.

One application I like and use for audio is WireTap.

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/wiretap/

iTunes for the Mac has only recently been able to convert WMA files, previously only the Windows version had this capability.

Similar to a poster above, I also need to convert Real Media files, but just audio, to something iTunes can play - does anyone have a solution for this?

I've been using FFMPEGX which, as well as being free, converts WMA to better quality MP3 than EasyWMA. The downside: No batch processing. The upside: converts between pretty much any pair of formats you can think of.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15473

Now, why would I shell out 10 bucks if iTunes does it for me? Am I missing something here, is there anything else to it?

For $20 and application called Switch Plus does a whole lot more. Converts a variety of different audio file formats including wav, mp3, ogg, flac, aac, wma, au, aiff, ogg, msv, dvf, vox, atrac, gsm, dss and other formats into mp3 or wav. Check it out at http://www.nch.com.au/switch/plus.html#101. The description says its for Windows, but an OS X version is avaliable on the front page.