Easy & quick ways of coverting masses of WMA’s to MP3?
Posting a lot of questions recently, but I’m sure you don’t mind
Traktor has issues with my WMA files, so much so that it stops playback of the other deck when I load one. I’m going to convert all of my WMA’s to MP3, just wondering if there is any awesome converter that will scan my music folder, find all the WMA’s, and convert them automatically, so that I don’t have to find them all manually, or am I asking too much there? I’l just use windows search for “wma.” otherwise but a converter that does it automatically would be awesome.
Alternatively, know of a decent converter anyway? I don’t currently have one.
Cheers!
The converter is great, does exactly what I need, converts and places the MP3 in the folder that the original WMA was, I don’t need a pprogram that finds all the WMA’s, that was kinda lazy
On the other hand though, the link has given me a nasty virus. I don’t think it’s the program itself, but it could be, it’s one of those incredibly annoying ones that opens up a scam page every time you click a page in the browser… it happened immediately after installing.
Great program though
Actually, I think it may be the program, it’s installed 3 extra programs on my laptop, one of which I can’t remove. Il convert everything and then uninstall + clean my system and hope for the best.
Lots of wierd things are happening, even chrome has changed its theme… The link isn’t safe and needs to be removed.
Didn’t I lose quality by obtaining them in WMA in the first place? Hopefully they won’t be noticeably less decent, I have about 14,000 wma’s
I hate wma, or any compressed audio format to be honest, but 30-60MB per track isn’t going to cut it for this purpose
If you actually care about the music and the sound of your library, you wont do this.
Just rebuy the ones you want in lossless format. Youll find that you dont really want %90 of that music if you have to buy it.
Those transcoded files will sound awful. SOUND AWFUL. A DJs only job is to play music that sounds good. Why would you ever want to have music that sounds obviously inferior to any casual listener?
Its also an absolute joy as a DJ to have a completely legit and high quality library. Everything is tagged perfectly, everything sounds excellent on any size sound system.
Yea, sometimes during install, there will be an option to ‘opt out’ of extra programs that may be contained within the package.
Can you identify the programs that came extra?
A lot of this music would be incredibly hard to find. Re-buying it all isn’t really an option, especially when we’re talking about thousands of songs and I’m broke. Something I will definitely do at some point, but in the mean time this is what I have. I’v been playing them back, and to be honest they don’t sound bad, granted they don’t sound as good as an uncompressed MP3, FLAC, or WAV but this is through studio monitors, once they’re pumping through a PA system I don’t think anyone will notice or care, Il just be clever with my eq’s if I have to, a lot of this music won’t even be played, it’s mainly 80’s rock. I do care about the quality of my music, but I care more about everything running smoothly at my first gig and people having a good time.
I opted out of them, I always do! it installed “Amnis Packages” and something else that I managed to remove, it infected my browser too. I’v cleared the browser infestation an d everything is running smoothly again!
But yeah, I opted out of the extra programs it wanted to install! I may have been intercepted along the way, I can’t remember what it’s called, but there is a type of hacking that can intercept a file on it’s way to you and infect it, which may be the case.
If you have it in WMA then its available digitally unless you ripped it yourself from vinyl to WMA. (Which was an insane choice, even back then
Excuses are boring. If you truly love and need this music for your DJing, you will make sure the creators get paid.
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I’v been playing them back, and to be honest they don’t sound bad, granted they don’t sound as good as an uncompressed MP3, FLAC, or WAV but this is through studio monitors, once they’re pumping through a PA system I don’t think anyone will notice or care[/QUOTE]
You are completely wrong about this. It will sound much much worse at high volume, and youll find you have to add a lot of EQ to get it to sit right, which will completely unbalance your mix.
This is like a carpenter using a hammer made out of celery. If you dont care about the sound of the music you play i cant even understand why you want to DJ. Its literally the only important thing.
FFMpeg is the first solution that comes to mind. Command line, scriptable, no way to screw yourself with adware unless you’re really really really bad with using the internet.
I suck at scripting, will get up something and full instructions after these finals hopefully.
If you’re good with batch scripting, it’s just making a script to iterate through a directory and run “ffmpeg -i filename.wma -acodec libmp3lame -ab 320k filename.mp3”
IMHO if you bought the music you have every right to adjust it to a more playable format. There is no point to rebuy all music in a different format to play it; that’s essentially extortion coughdrmcough. I don’t believe that everyone we play to as a DJ is an audiophile or that we play on an audiophile grade system anyhow, as long as the quality is sufficient (320kbps mp3, at least 256kbps), it’s fine. You will only have a problem if you’re requested to play lossless at a sufficiently high status venue, and at that point you should hopefully have the connections to have a mostly lossless collection anyways, no?
Thats just silly. Its not extortion for Apple to sell an Iphone 6 even though the iphone 4 still works.
Upgrades cost money.
A very low quality WMA does not have the same value as a lossless FLAC.
You dont automatically get a free iphone 6 because you own a 4. If you want a better quality version of something you already have, of course you need to pay for it.
A WMA file transcoded to mp3 will be MUCH lower quality than a 320k file. It will sound like ass on any size speaker, and will get worse the louder the system.
WMAs at max bitrate are considered to be a fair bit worse than even 192 bitrate mp3. WMA was never considered a good sounding codec from the beginning.
Please don’t go from wma to mp3. Convert them all to wav or some other lossless format, …you won’t get wav quality back, but you won’t make them sound any worse.
Hard drives are cheap, you can pick up an external 1TB for approx £40 these days.
I’l just use windows search for “wma.” otherwise but a converter that does it automatically would be awesome.
