Posted by Bob on 11/16/65 11:37

In article <qhOyf.6343$NQ5.579876@wagner.videotron.net>,
napsterneorenegade@hotmail.com says...
> Bob wrote:
> > Is there a program I can use to convert wma and w4a? to mp3?
>
> There's no such thing as W4A. Do you mean M4A?
>
> Anyway, dbPowerAmp should be able to convert WMA and M4A to MP3's.
> foobar2000 is another program (a player, actually) that can do the job.
>
> If the WMA's are "protected", then you can't convert them with either of
> those programs. You can try recording them with something like Total
> Recorder, though.
>
> > Will there be a loss of quality?
>
> Yes.
>
> - NRen2k5
>
Why would there be a loss of quality? Obviously the source is digital.
Surely the conversion only rearranges the data to another format. Maybe
if you changed the sampling rate then the conversion would have to lose
or "invent" some samples.

Or am I miising something?

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