[jgift]

I have a dozen or so songs in wma format but don't want to go the convert to wav and import into iTunes route. Any way of burning them directly to CD so as to preserve quality?
Thanks.

[Jacke]

Originally posted by jgift:
I have a dozen or so songs in wma format but don't want to go the convert to wav and import into iTunes route. Any way of burning them directly to CD so as to preserve quality?
Thanks.

Use Toast to burn the wav file. Or if you don't have Toast you can set iTunes to import as AIFF. This is assuming you already have a way of converting the wma files to something compatible; if you don't, you have a whole other problem.

[jgift]

The point is that I don't want to convert. Is there any application under OSX which will accept and burn WMA files?

Thanks.

[Jacke]

Originally posted by jgift:
The point is that I don't want to convert. Is there any application under OSX which will accept and burn WMA files?

Well, if you want to burn it as data the Finder's burn function or Toast can do it. Just choose 'Data' in Toast or just drag the file to the empty cdr in the Finder, just like any other file.

[Earth Mk. II]

Originally posted by Jacke:
Well, if you want to burn it as data the Finder's burn function or Toast can do it. Just choose 'Data' in Toast or just drag the file to the empty cdr in the Finder, just like any other file.

I think the point is that he's trying to burn a WMA file directly to an audio CD without any intermediary steps (i.e. converting to AIFF/WAV then burning).

And, as far as I know, no solution to do that exists on the Mac.

[EDIT]
For what it's worth, burning a WMA file to an audio CD converts that file into uncompressed 16-bit, 44.1 kHz PCM data... converting your WMA files to WAV or AIFF does the exact same conversion. Going from WMA->AIFF (or WAV)->CD has no more quality loss then going from directly from WMA->CD. The conversions done to the file's data are identical.

If loss of quality is your only concern, then converting the files to AIFF (or WAV), adding them to your iTunes library (NOT importing them, just drag them onto iTunes - this way your files are not converted a second time), then burning them through iTunes should be an acceptable solution.

But, if you're really looking for that 'one-click' solution, I'm afraid you're SOL.
[/EDIT]

[codywalton]

Originally posted by jgift:
The point is that I don't want to convert. Is there any application under OSX which will accept and burn WMA files?

Thanks.

No. You have to convert it to either wav or aiff. then your can burn it to an audio CD format.

[jgift]

Ok. I appreciate all the advice. Will try and sort out the lesser of all evils