Bass-ic Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 (edited) Hi I know ther was a thread on here somewhere about this, but i need some advice on how to get music on to my tascam mp3. I use windows which is wma, and i cant find a way to convert the tracks. Does anyknow of a really simple way of doing this as i am not the best with PC stuff. Cheers Edited February 10, 2008 by Absolute-beginner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theosd Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 (edited) [quote name='Absolute-beginner' post='137535' date='Feb 10 2008, 12:11 PM']Hi I know ther was a thread on here somewhere about this, but i need some advice on how to get music on to my tascam mp3. I use windows which is wma, and i cant find a way to convert the tracks. Does anyknow of a really simple way of doing this as i am not the best with PC stuff. Cheers[/quote] NCH switch - it's free and really easy. [url="http://www.nch.com.au/switch/"]http://www.nch.com.au/switch/[/url] Edited February 10, 2008 by theosd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass-ic Posted February 10, 2008 Author Share Posted February 10, 2008 Ah right , Thanks for that! matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOD2 Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 There are quite a few free converters around. Trying Googling "wma mp3 convert free". This is one I came across [url="http://www.koyotesoft.com/indexEn.html"]koyotesoft.com[/url] but I've never used it so I can't comment on it. Maybe someone else has experience of using something it particular. I have used [url="http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/?q=download"]CD-Ex[/url] which is a good program to extract files from audio CDs onto your hard drive - either as WAV files (original format) or converted to MP3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamster Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 You can record CD's as MP3 tracks with the bundled Windows Media Player and then just copy them to you Tascam. Open the media player, go to Tools, Options, Rip Music to set the ripped format. Hamster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilmour Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Isn;t there an option in Media Player to save as MP3 rather than WMA? I thought there was? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass-ic Posted February 10, 2008 Author Share Posted February 10, 2008 I think ill play the 'phone a friend button. Damned if i can get it to work........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 I know it's not all that good on Windows but iTunes will convert WAV to MP3. You need to go into preferences and change the default conversion from AAC to MP3 first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 [quote name='Absolute-beginner' post='137624' date='Feb 10 2008, 03:30 PM']I think ill play the 'phone a friend button. Damned if i can get it to work........[/quote] Could be the licence management in your wma file is preventing you from copying it to another format. I've heard the way round that is to burn your wma files to a CD and then rip the CD back to mp3. Never done it cos I don't buy that DRM'd stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalMan Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 [quote name='spinynorman' post='137794' date='Feb 10 2008, 08:42 PM']I've heard the way round that is to burn your wma files to a CD and then rip the CD back to mp3. Never done it cos I don't buy that DRM'd stuff.[/quote] That will do it, just annoying to waste a CD on a track Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass-ic Posted February 10, 2008 Author Share Posted February 10, 2008 thank you all for your help. I got a bit lost trying this, but hey with the PC, you know whats its like. if you dont know one thing, all your plans get shot out the window. tonight a mate of mine took the trouble to show me the simplest of ways, all within windows. you have to think that IT people are human after all! How ever, thanks to all the BC member s who took the time to answer! Cheers Matt (AB) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass-ic Posted February 11, 2008 Author Share Posted February 11, 2008 Sorted! yeah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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