May be a basic question, but cant find an app to get some wma lossless files back out to wav or and then FLAC. sure I have done it before, but can tfind the app on this machine....
Thought I had ysed CDex but it does not want to know this time
Any ideas?
Full Version: WMA losless to FLAC
Well I have foobar, just the basic install, but cant get it to do much,
Cant even get a library to work. Seems that you need to load pluggins for everything you want to do, they are compresseed, 7z format or something...., so you then need another decompressor...Win RAR or something.
Only just started down the digital encoding route, did a few with Windoze media player, then decided to go down the open source route.and flac...since then I have tried and had to install countless progs/apps/Java/perl etc etc. No time to listen to any music anymore more time spent setting up and configuring yet another app to do something else. MS bloatware at least has that going for it, you can just use it, with out having to install 20 other apps.
Actuall done it with Esy CD-DA extractor now, but still struggling with foobar, just so I am not beaten by it....but another few days in front of this machine, and the girlfriend wont be talking to me
Edit:
well downloaded the windows media convertor, but cant find anything about what the command lines to run it should be,............have been on this for about 6 hours this morning....,.PC could be getting flying lessons shortly......
Cant even get a library to work. Seems that you need to load pluggins for everything you want to do, they are compresseed, 7z format or something...., so you then need another decompressor...Win RAR or something.
Only just started down the digital encoding route, did a few with Windoze media player, then decided to go down the open source route.and flac...since then I have tried and had to install countless progs/apps/Java/perl etc etc. No time to listen to any music anymore more time spent setting up and configuring yet another app to do something else. MS bloatware at least has that going for it, you can just use it, with out having to install 20 other apps.
Actuall done it with Esy CD-DA extractor now, but still struggling with foobar, just so I am not beaten by it....but another few days in front of this machine, and the girlfriend wont be talking to me
Edit:
well downloaded the windows media convertor, but cant find anything about what the command lines to run it should be,............have been on this for about 6 hours this morning....,.PC could be getting flying lessons shortly......
foobar2000 0.9.2 supports decoding WMA Lossless out of the box, for transcoding (converting) you just need to put flac.exe to "Program Files\foobar2000\" directory.
Add your WMAL files to playlist, select them all, rightclick, choose "convert to..." and select from a drop-down menu FLAC item, that's all
Add your WMAL files to playlist, select them all, rightclick, choose "convert to..." and select from a drop-down menu FLAC item, that's all
Cheers
That seemed to work...
Only seems that in some way or another foo_flac dll files seem to be corrupt or missing...
Ahh computers dont you just love em
That seemed to work...
Only seems that in some way or another foo_flac dll files seem to be corrupt or missing...
Ahh computers dont you just love em
foo_flac.dll is no longer needed in 0.9.2, so it is safe to remove it.
Thanks for that,
I went away from the whole thing for a few hours, had something to eat, came back refreshed and sorted all within minutes.
I had started ranting...not thinking....just posted the question in a moments stupidity. A bit of a break from the screen, and clarity of thought returned!
An un-install / re-install of foobar (same version) solved the problem. I have only ever had the one version on here, never any earlier versions. I only downloaded yesterday.
Trouble is I cant remember what I did to cause the problem in the first place, if they are no longer needed, in this version, how come they were trying to load? I have not had a previous version. Did I try and load a pluggin that was calling them up, I cant think that I did.
I went away from the whole thing for a few hours, had something to eat, came back refreshed and sorted all within minutes.
I had started ranting...not thinking....just posted the question in a moments stupidity. A bit of a break from the screen, and clarity of thought returned!
An un-install / re-install of foobar (same version) solved the problem. I have only ever had the one version on here, never any earlier versions. I only downloaded yesterday.
Trouble is I cant remember what I did to cause the problem in the first place, if they are no longer needed, in this version, how come they were trying to load? I have not had a previous version. Did I try and load a pluggin that was calling them up, I cant think that I did.
dbPoweramp can do the conversion for you too.
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