WMA - MP3

[Sonyme]

Is there any way of burning music tracks in MP3 format when the OS driving Windows media player is Windows 7 which burns in WMA format by default - which means they won' t play on two of my CD players?

[rojash]

I think it burns them in the format in which they were ripped. Try changing the Rip setting s to MP3.

[Sonyme]

I don't think that will work I am making (or trying to) from the media library. Some 4000 tracks have been ripped to library over several years with version 9, 10 & 11 of Windows media player and I have made CD's under Windows 2000, XP and vista with no problems. I can't back date to earlier versions os media playerr. With XP and vista
the tracks were in the library in WMA format when burning a playlist the message against each track was "converting" then burning - the end result MP3. It would seem that the converting option has disappeared.

[baitress]

down load the free version of switch sound
file converter. Load your wma files and convert them to mp3.
I have just done it to my music files
so that I could input them onto my mobile phone.
Rgeards, Roger

[baitress]

I wish that I could spell regards correctly.

[Sonyme]

Many thanks for that. I was beginning to think that new CD players was the answer. I kmow the new digital radio/ CD players are much better the old analogue are still capable of playing them in the MP3 format. I think I have a Roberts Radio on my Birthday list (son & daughter). Thanks again

[Wak]

A FREE program called "Format Factory" is available from
http://www.pcfreetime.com/
It's very good for converting both audio and video files to quite a large range of alternatives.