The Olympus DSS Player Pro software won't convert WMA to WAV? If not, there
are lots of converters out there for little or no money. To add one to
Matthew's suggestion, on Windows I think dBpowerAMP Music Converter will
convert WMA into other formats. See http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
The other option is to by a commercial audio editing program that will work
with WMA. If Audition at $300 is a little steep, take a look at Sony's Sound
Forge Audio Studio 7, which supports "Windows Media 9 import and export".
It's $70. Sony have a time-limited demo download so you can try it without
paying first.
http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/Products/ShowProduct.asp?PID=945
Note that all editing programs work with uncompressed audio. No matter which
compression scheme you use (MP3, WMA, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, etc.) Audacity,
Cooledit, Audition and other editing software will convert the file to
uncompressed audio when it is loaded. If the program doesn't have a filter
to convert the file from the format you are using, then you need to find a
third party converter to do the job. Note also that you don't want to move
back and forth between lossy compressed and lossless uncompressed files too
much. Every time you recompress to a lossy format there will be a loss in
quality.
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:45:10 -0500, Matthew Weinstein <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Right so you have to convert it. I use mplayer on Mac OSX to do the
>conversion to aiff (like wav) which audacity deals with easily. I'm not
>sure mplayer's availability for windows. with mplayer you just type
>"mplayer -ao pcm FILENAME".
>
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
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