Free mp3 to cda or wma converter.

j_davies

Yeah im not really into converting mp3 to wma but Microsoft deemed it nessecary that the XBox would only rip cda and not mp3 but it will play mp3, how daft is that, lol, but that software really did do a top notch job

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j_davies wrote:

Microsoft deemed it nessecary that the XBox would only rip cda and not mp3 but it will play mp3, how daft is that, lol,

It's not daft at all. In fact, as I've said, you don't rip MP3 files. What your ripping with audio CDs is the underlying and otherwise inaccessible audio rather than the cda file. By ripping it your making it into a format than can be played from other media than the CD.

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grahawk wrote:

What your ripping with audio CDs is the underlying and otherwise inaccessible audio rather than the cda file.

It's even weirder than that - the CDA files don't actually exist!

j_davies

grahawk wrote:

It's not daft at all. In fact, as I've said, you don't rip MP3 files. What your ripping with audio CDs is the underlying and otherwise inaccessible audio rather than the cda file. By ripping it your making it into a format than can be played from other media than the CD.

You can rip any kind of file infact as the word rip came from rip off, to take something from one source and put in another place, and yes it is daft because as Ive said before you cant put 120 tracks from one sinlge mp3 CD but you have to insert audio CD after audio CD and this is a tiresome task especially if you have two big compilation CDs that you want to put on the 360, so yes its very daft.

gillette147

I used dbPowerAmp but my trial has run out and now i can't use it.
I want to convert between WMA and MP3 either way.

I tried unistalling and redoing it without success.

Mike_J

j_davies wrote:

I have mp3 files on a CD that I would like to rip to my PC as wma or cda files so I can burn to disc and put them on my 360 as WMP wont allow to rip from mp3 only cda, sorry for the naff first post.

Cant you just drag and drop the MP3 files from the CD to your hard drive and then burn to CD using WMP.

j_davies

Mike_J wrote:

Cant you just drag and drop the MP3 files from the CD to your hard drive and then burn to CD using WMP.

No or that would of been my first port of call :beer:

All done and dusted now anyway