[harrisjamieh]

So i have about 15 GB of wma music i used to use on my windows pc, and now I want to play it in itunes. It has to be itunes because I am using it as a music server, and like the way itunes works with the whole sharing thing.

Anyone know of any way to either make itunes convert the wma's to mp3s or a program to convert wma's to mp3s, but in bulk, i dont want to have to sit there and convert every wma into an mp3 one by one!

Cheers

[Chuckit]

iTunes for Windows can convert them, I think.

[ghporter]

From Help in iTunes for Windows:

If the file is an unprotected WMA file and you have Windows Media Player Series 9 or later installed, iTunes makes a copy of the file in AAC format - or whatever format is chosen in the Advanced pane of iTunes Preferences (in the Importing section) - and adds it to your iTunes library. The original WMA file remains unchanged. You can't add protected WMA files to iTunes.

You can't add protected WMAs because there's no way for iTunes to convert the DRM in the WMA format to the DRM in AAC format.

If you have a bunch of protected WMAs, I'd get busy burning a LOT of audio CDs. Once they're burned, rip them as straight MP3s-at the highest bitrate you can get. These will be bigger files, but they will no longer be protected and you'll be able to import them into whatever program and player you want.