wma/mp3 conversion

[musiclawyer]

I burned a home-made song (from a stand-alone digital 8 track) onto a cd and then converted it to a wma file using windows media player.
But how do you convert the wma to an mp3? I wanted to upload the song to myspace and they say they need the file in mp3 format.

[billyskank]

1. Do you still have the cd? Much better to re-encode it into mp3 from the original.

WMA to mp3 conversion will lose some quality that you can avoid by doing a fresh encoding.

[musiclawyer]

2. Yes, I have the CD

I used to have winamp on my old pc, now I don't . So what do I do? Thanks

[philosophie_en_rose]

3. Super C is a free converter.

But it's probably easiest to import the songs into an mp3 program.

[musiclawyer]

4. Ok what's the best cd to mp3 conversion program ?

Seems like there are lots of options

[Omphaloskepsis]

5. iTunes will do this..

But it installs Quicktime too and it is really bloated. I'm sure others can chime in with other lightweight Windows alternatives. But I tunes will do this and it is really easy to do.

[musiclawyer]

6. My SO did this for me on her itunes

but she could not e-mail it to me. And it's my own song! I need the ability to e-mail the song(s) eventually. She's really pissed about that and some othr limitations on itunes. I choase not to go i tunes route a few years ago when I saw there was virtually no "british invasion" stuff from the 60's there.

[Omphaloskepsis]

7. iTunes places no restrictions on anything you "Rip" from a CD.

Only the songs bought from the iTunes music store have DRM. Maybe the resulting file was to large to email. Some email providers set really low limits on the file size of attachments. Gmail allows 20 Megs, some small ISP's only allow 2 Megs.

I have never bought anything from iTunes and have used it since 2001. The store is 5% of what the program does.