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User profile for user: SuperSelrak
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WMA to AAC

Hello Apple/Mac lovers,

Well the title says it all : iTunes doesn't react +at all+ to WMA files ! That's just crazy ! But anyways, since I want all my WMA music on my iPod, I have to convert it to AAC (or MP3, but AAC is better), and wether that's done in iTunes or not is no issue for me.

What is an issue then is finding a small free converting software ! Is it so hard to do such a conversion that all softwares I've found so far cost at least 10 bucks ? Thanks in advance for your help,

Selrak

MacBook (white) 13 in. Intel Core 2 Duo 1.83 Ghz 3 GB RAM, 80 + 120 external Go, Mac OS X (10.5.7), => It works wonders, what more is there to say ...

Posted on Jul 13, 2010 7:12 AM

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User profile for user: varjak paw
varjak paw
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Jul 13, 2010 8:00 AM in response to SuperSelrak

iTunes doesn't react at all to WMA files ! That's just crazy !

It's not crazy at all. iTunes doesn't support WMA. iTunes for Windows will convert such files, but the Mac version will not. Switch, as JGG suggested, should handle the files as long as you are satisfied with MP3. If you want AAC or other formats, you'll probably have to pay for a converter.

Regards.
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User profile for user: SuperSelrak
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Jul 13, 2010 8:15 AM in response to varjak paw

Well my research so far got me to that conclusion too. What a shame.
JGG, your suggestion is interesting, although MP3 is lossier than AAC (right ? I think so). I could convert to say WAV or something, which I believe would not loose any quality, use that on iTunes which supports it, and then convert to AAC using that setting JGG suggested.
That leads to another question however : what formats and bitrates does the iPod actually supports without need of any converting ?
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User profile for user: varjak paw
varjak paw
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Jul 13, 2010 8:35 AM in response to SuperSelrak

MP3 is lossier than AAC (right ? I think so).

MP3 is usually considered to be inferior in quality to AAC when two files of the same bit rate are compared, though it depends somewhat on what compressor is used; some MP3 compressors are better than others and I don't know what Switch uses.

what formats and bitrates does the iPod actually supports without need of any converting ?

What model of iPod?
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WMA to AAC

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