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wma to mp3

Feb 8, 2006 6:45PM PST

Concerning the question today in the music weekly:

Q: I recently purchased some music from Yahoo Music, and it was downloaded in WMA 9 format. Unfortunately, I have a Sony NW-E507 player, which does not support this format, and Yahoo Music does not give refunds. I don't want to spend another 30 bucks listening to music I have already purchased, so can you suggest a freeware converter (from WMA 9 to MP3)?
--Posted by Frustrated John

I have sucessfully put these type files into the Windows media player and then burned the file to a cdrw disk (wmp burns the song as a cda file). Then I use my Matchbox Jukebox to convert the cda file to mp3 and it play and burns fine from there!

cowdenmrb

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make a cd and rip it
Feb 9, 2006 5:05PM PST

That's the way to do a few files. There are some converting software out like Audio Converter for $19.90 but I have never tried it.

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Try this
Feb 9, 2006 7:16PM PST
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(NT) (NT) Link gives me a page not found
Feb 19, 2006 10:04AM PST
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The Freeware is gone!
Feb 19, 2006 1:05PM PST