Audacity file conversion from wma to mp3

[kranky]

A friend asked me to take some wma sound files and make them compatible for podcasts. These wma files were created with the "progressive download" option in Windows Media Encoder. I thought all I would need to do is open with Audacity and export to mp3.

When I open one of the 4MB wma files in Audacity, it only shows the first 0.05 seconds of sound - as if that's all there is to the file. I can play the wma fine in Media Player but can't figure out why Audacity doesn't see the whole thing. This happens with every file.

Any thoughts? Googling has not paid off.

 

[chronodekar]

This is off the top of my head, but does audacity do this with all files? It could be a setting somewhere to just accept only the first .05 seconds of a file.

Try making a .wav using the default Windows recorder and opening it with audicity. See if you get more than .05 seconds. (Obviously, do record more than that ! )

 

[0roo0roo]

dunno, try foobar
or media coder

 

[Nothinman]

Your best bet is probably just to play it to a wav file and then encode that to MP3.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Try using dbpoweramp to convert to aac. That should be podcast compatible.

 

[Sam25]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
Try using dbpoweramp to convert to aac. That should be podcast compatible.

+1 for dbpoweramp:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/