Posted by red apple on 09/04/05 01:40

I have an inexpensive but decent portable music player that plays both
mp3 and wma files.

My understanding - from where I don't know - is that wma files are
smaller than mp3 files (everything else held equal) and that they thus
can fit more songs on a portable player than by using mp3. Correct?

If that's correct, I am having a devil of a time converting my mp3 files
to wma. I'd like something that would, free, do batch conversions from
mp3 to wma. The several things I've tried don't even offer a wma
option, and the help files say it's probably because I lack a wma codec.
Yet I *do* have a few wma files on my compuer, and they play fine on the
computer in wimamp, WMP, etc. So where do I find a decent, free, speedy
batch conversion utility, and where do I get the necessary codec(s) to
allow conversion to wma?

Sorry, can't find this information on the web, even though I expect
there will be at least 20 responses pointing me to the right place.

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