Posted by dadiOH on 11/16/32 11:37

Bob wrote:
> 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?

You are missing the fact that the original format has to be decoded to
wave and that wave then encoded to a new format. The decoded wave lacks
whatever was tossed when the *original* wave was encoded to format #1
and the new encoding tosses still more from wave #2.

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