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Converting OMG to WAV/mp3

Gers
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I lent my laptop to a friend so he could upload his music to an mp3 player - unfortunately he's used Sony Sonic and the tracks are all in .omg format. Is there a way to get them into .wav or .mp3 format please?

Or, is the answer to just sit and upload again using CDex??

Thanks

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  • fermi
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    Love that format name/acronym. ;)

    In quality terms, normally best to re-encode from source.
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  • Gers
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    fermi wrote: »
    Love that format name/acronym. ;)

    In quality terms, normally best to re-encode from source.


    That's what I thought... but trying to get round that!

    Thanks for your reply.
  • robredz
    robredz Posts: 1,602 Forumite
    Will the files play on the laptop? If so you could record them in Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ using the "what u hear" source for recording, if it won't open the files, then export as a .wav or .mp3 but this would take a while
  • Gers
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    robredz wrote: »
    Will the files play on the laptop? If so you could record them in Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ using the "what u hear" source for recording, if it won't open the files, then export as a .wav or .mp3 but this would take a while

    Yes, they play on the laptop - could use Audacity but suspect there'd be a loss of quality. Will give it a try though, so thanks for the suggestion.
  • weegie.geek
    weegie.geek Posts: 3,432 Forumite
    You really don't want to do that, it'll ruin the quality more than just straight re-encoding.

    If they're .OMG they'll probably be DRM'd, so you'll be wanting to remove the DRM first off. Probably an iffy subject on here, so it's off to google. :)
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