What is the best music file converter??

Question

I'm looking for something that converts mp3's into midi, wma, amr (etc.) format. Any suggestions??

High quality doesn't matter much to me. I just need to save space on my cell phone.

Answer 1

You have two things to consider. First, do you really need software that can convert to or from WMA files? That format is not widely distributed. It was Microsoft's effort to make their own audio format that could replace MP3. I don't see it making any progress in that area.

Second, if you want to save space on a mobile phone, use iTunes free download for Windows or Mac) to make space-saving MP3 files such as ringtones that will sound fine through any phone. Here are the steps using iTunes on my Mac. It should be almost the same on a Windows computer:

With iTunes open, go to the iTunes menu > Preferences > Advanced > Importing. There you see a drop list for Settings. Choose Custom... Now change the rate to whatever you like. 96 is good for even the best of phones. Choose mono to cut the file size in half without affecting quality. I get 30 seconds at 150-210k size. Do all this before you convert the music selection to MP3.

To make the selection of song segment in iTunes, click once to select the song in the library list. Then File > Get Info. In the Options tab, choose the start time / stop time. You will do it custom for each song. I suggest around 30 seconds. Back in the library list, with the original song selected, go to Advanced menu > Convert selection to MP3. After a few seconds, you will have your ringtone with new name of "Light_MY_Fire1.mp3" or whatever.

Answer 2

Sorry, I've never actually done this. However, when you go from one compressed format to another, you'll lose even more quality. So in the end, if you intend to keep music in the new format for a while, it might be better to re-rip it or download it in the format you want, rather than converting from one to the other.

Also, I've found that .mp3 is the most universal format that plays in the widest range of MP3 players, in my car, etc. WMA just doesn't work in that many places.

Sorry for the indirect answer, but I've had this dilemma before and we just decide to re-rip all the CDs in MP3 format since we had WMA the first time.

Answer 3

try jet audio