Converting Lossless WMA to WAV, best tool? Options

[bcass]

I have some tracks encoded as WMA Lossess. I need to convert them to WAV. Could any of you good people recommend the best tool for doing this? Will dBpowerAMP be sufficient, or will the foobar2000 Convert to WAV (PCM, fixed-point) option do the job?

This post has been edited by bcass: Oct 6 2006, 01:42

[Shade[ST]]

Any of these two programs, or other which can read WMA lossless, should work. Except WMP, but you'd expect that.

[moonshot]

' date='Oct 5 2006, 16:48' post='438272']
Any of these two programs, or other which can read WMA lossless, should work. Except WMP, but you'd expect that.

Out of interst, what does WMP do to lossless WMA when converting it to WAV?

Thanks.

[Shade[ST]]

Out of interst, what does WMP do to lossless WMA when converting it to WAV?

It doesn't. It only plays back files.

[spoon]

It must be quite frustrating being a programmer at Microsoft, always managers rulling what can and cannot be done for political reasons.

[tev777]

There is also the Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless to PCM Converter located @ http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme.../utilities.aspx

[bcass]

Thanks for the replies. I've always been a bit paranoid about using the Convert option in foobar2000. For example, when converting FLAC or APE to WAV using this function. Is this function the same as using the native convertor functions for those formats (eg - FLAC front-end and Monkey's Audio)? When I want to convert a bulk WAV file with a cue file into individual FLACs, I usually use foobar2000 to split the WAV using the Convert option. I'm not losing any audio resolution when doing this am I?

This post has been edited by bcass: Oct 7 2006, 01:42

[ozmosis82]

I'm curious about the foobar Converter too. I use it to convert from WavPack/FLAC to WAV. Does it verify the MD5 checksum within the compressed file's metadata?