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Title: Suggestions for converting MPEG-4 audio to .wma format
Post by: Angel Eyes on February 09, 2019, 11:58:59 PM

I'm looking for a free utility that converts MPEG-4 audio files to Windows Media Audio format.  There are a quite a few to choose from, based on my online searching, but I know nothing about any of them, which ones are really malware, etc.

Suggestions are appreciated.   Thanks.
Title: Re: Suggestions for converting MPEG-4 audio to .wma format
Post by: zxcvbob on February 10, 2019, 12:02:31 AM
I'm not sure if VLC (from VideoLAN) can do that one, but I suspect it can.  The user interface might be a little confusing tho', it sure was last time I used VLC to do conversions rather than just playback.
Title: Re: Suggestions for converting MPEG-4 audio to .wma format
Post by: lee n. field on February 10, 2019, 09:21:38 AM
FFmpeg (https://ffmpeg.org/),   Winff (https://sourceforge.net/projects/winff/) is the windows GUI front end.
Title: Re: Suggestions for converting MPEG-4 audio to .wma format
Post by: Angel Eyes on February 10, 2019, 04:22:48 PM
I can convert the file to .wav format with VLC.  If there is a way to produce .wma output, I haven't found it yet.

Thanks for the links to FFmpeg and Winff.  I'll check them out.
Title: Re: Suggestions for converting MPEG-4 audio to .wma format
Post by: zxcvbob on February 10, 2019, 05:23:04 PM
I can convert the file to .wav format with VLC.  If there is a way to produce .wma output, I haven't found it yet.

Thanks for the links to FFmpeg and Winff.  I'll check them out.


https://wiki.videolan.org/ASF/  Try producing a .asf outfile and rename it .wma?  (I may try later that and see what happens)
Title: Re: Suggestions for converting MPEG-4 audio to .wma format
Post by: RoadKingLarry on February 10, 2019, 06:34:58 PM
Anyone else "seeing" Convert MP-4 to.... [ar15]
Title: Re: Suggestions for converting MPEG-4 audio to .wma format
Post by: Firethorn on February 11, 2019, 12:11:19 AM
Anyone else "seeing" Convert MP-4 to.... [ar15]

I was.  I'm more convert the other way around.  MP4 is an open format.  WMA isn't.
Title: Re: Suggestions for converting MPEG-4 audio to .wma format
Post by: Nick1911 on February 11, 2019, 12:20:21 AM
I was.  I'm more convert the other way around.  MP4 is an open format.  WMA isn't.

That.
Title: Re: Suggestions for converting MPEG-4 audio to .wma format
Post by: HeroHog on February 11, 2019, 07:03:08 PM
http://www.videosoftdev.com/

Their free stuff is GREAT!

I actually bought their Video editor.