does anyone know how make a music file conversion program?

stephen10101 · Post by **stephen10101** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:16 pm

hi, i have recently aquired alot of music (legally) from urge, however it puts them in a protected wma file, is there anyone here who knows how to convert it into an uprotected mp3, unprotected wma, or unprotected wav file? any help would be greatly appreciated! THANK YOU!!!!

Lowallyn · Post by **Lowallyn** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:34 am

either put all of them on a bunch of CDs, and then put them back on your computer with Windows Meda playre or iTunes but play witht he settings so it imports to mp3

or get goldwaves free trial and figure that out
http://www.goldwave.com

link_36p · Post by **link_36p** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:48 pm

Or if you were on linux.......

mkfifo pipe; lame -h pipe my_new.mp3 | mplayer -vo null -ao pcm:file=pipe my_wma_file

Considering you are probelly on windows, you can use mplayer still to dump
every file to a .wav (PCM format) and then use lame, but each pcm file would be around 80 megs and it would take forever, though coding a program in a .net language that did it in a batch might not be very hard.

stephen10101 · Post by **stephen10101** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:40 pm

yeah, i tried to make wavs with wmplayer, but the drm protection wouldnt let me, so i tried to make a program to do it in vb.net basing off my file merging program except after writing all the file bytes in the selected file, changing it to an mp3, but that didnt work at all, so if you know how to convert file types in vb that would be verry helpful