wma converter
I always wondered if I would ever need some sort of audio converter to process WMA files into something else (say, WAVE, mp3, etc) and finally ran into this ‘issue’, since not very long ago I purchased a digital audio recorder. It is one of the many from the Olympus brand. The device itself was affordable, hight quality and lasts for hours on a single battery pack.
The ‘problem’ (if you wish to call it that way) was that the highest quality recordings are saved as WMA (windows media audio), and my plan was to edit and convert my recordings to mp3 files using the free tool Audacity. To complicate matters, Audacity does not like WMA files, so they must somehow be converted to an uncompressed WAVE file (.wav) before I can proceed to edit and export them to mp3 audio format.
So here is where this tool called XRecode comes in handy.
According to the developer, xrecode is “Freeware parallel audio converter with full Unicode support”.
What this means is that on top of supporting the conversion of WMA audio files into many other formats such as WAV, MP3, AAC, OGG, etc.. the program can also convert multiple files at once (in parallel mode) by taking advantage of multiple cores of your computer system (if available).
The program filesize is only 3.6 megabytes and it works fast.
The newest version of XRecode is now Shareware, but you can still obtain the last freeware version of it at the following places:
XRecode freeware: http://www.mediafire.com/file/irylmm0jznk/xrecode.zip
or
XRecode freeware: http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page38.html
