.wma to .mp3

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So I've been trying to get the music files I saved off of my last computer, a PC, and transfer them onto my new iMac and I was wondering who could tell me the most efficient way of converting .wma files into .mp3s?
 
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Does no one know how to do this? I downloaded some freeware that said it would do this but it did not. Can anyone help me with this???
 
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iTunes does this.

I believe you just add it to the Library, and it'll convert it automatically.

Also, if you right-click a song in iTunes, there is an item called "Convert Selection to MP3."

In either case, it will output at ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music (~ = your Home folder)
 
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iTunes does this.

I believe you just add it to the Library, and it'll convert it automatically.

Also, if you right-click a song in iTunes, there is an item called "Convert Selection to MP3."

In either case, it will output at ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music (~ = your Home folder)

I think you can only import wma into the windows version of iTunes, at least that used to be the case.
 
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EasyWMA will work just fine.
http://www.easywma.com/

But beware nothing on OS X will play those protected wma files.
 
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But beware nothing on OS X will play those protected wma files.

I'm pretty sure that if I booted up my Parallels VM, loaded the protected WMA file up in whatever player does protected WMA files, and told my Audio HiJack Pro to record Parallels, I could record them to whatever I wanted.

Heck, I do that now with other things.

Would suck to have thousands of them, but then I saw the DRM writing on the wall years ago, and never touched a WMA.
 

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