mp3 to wav files?

SeaTut73
SeaTut73 Posts: 458
edited June 2008 in The Porch
not sure if this is the right forum to ask this & YES i've already tried googling this, but i am looking for a good FREE program to transfer mp3s to wav files.

can anyone suggest a good FREE program?? i tried a few already, but they all sucked for various different reasons.

thanks in advance.
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  • jeffbr
    jeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    Try this:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/auvid/

    Or if you want a full-scale audio editing program you can use this:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/

    You can load an MP3 into Audacity and do a "Save As..." to Wav.

    You probably know this, but to be clear, going MP3 to Wav will do nothing to restore fidelity or make it sound better. It will just make it much bigger.
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  • Evacuation Rules
    Evacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    Why are you making WAV's of MP3's?
  • SeaTut73
    SeaTut73 Posts: 458
    JWBusher wrote:
    Why are you making WAV's of MP3's?

    eddie asked me to....
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  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    There is just no reason at all to go from mp3 to wav.

    :confused:
  • Oz Jammer
    Oz Jammer Posts: 9,858
    jeffbr wrote:
    Try this:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/auvid/

    Or if you want a full-scale audio editing program you can use this:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/

    You can load an MP3 into Audacity and do a "Save As..." to Wav.

    You probably know this, but to be clear, going MP3 to Wav will do nothing to restore fidelity or make it sound better. It will just make it much bigger.

    Do they do FLAC ---> MP3 as well?
  • My3rdEye
    My3rdEye Posts: 927
    SeaTut73 wrote:
    not sure if this is the right forum to ask this & YES i've already tried googling this, but i am looking for a good FREE program to transfer mp3s to wav files.

    can anyone suggest a good FREE program?? i tried a few already, but they all sucked for various different reasons.

    thanks in advance.

    Winamp does this. I believe the plug-in is called "disc writer".
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  • My3rdEye
    My3rdEye Posts: 927
    aNiMaL wrote:
    There is just no reason at all to go from mp3 to wav.

    :confused:

    Aside from wanting to listen to the music on a normal CD player.
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  • mookieblalock
    mookieblalock Posts: 3,590
    the poster who said winamp is correct. Its very quick and easy to do and its free.
  • darthvedder
    darthvedder Posts: 2,680
    SeaTut73 wrote:
    eddie asked me to....

    Eddie should know better.
  • TheLostSoul
    TheLostSoul Posts: 773
    once its encoded to mp3, going back to .wav is a no no, results in poopy quality. go find the flac files instead.
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  • ZAPPER
    ZAPPER Posts: 253
    yea i dont know why you would want to do this but like others said - winamp or cdex is good too.
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  • pdalowsky
    pdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,235
    google the words traders little helper and download the free software, its awesome for any conversions
  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    My3rdEye wrote:
    Aside from wanting to listen to the music on a normal CD player.
    in which case you should get the flac or any other lossless format..
  • Bangers_n_mash
    Bangers_n_mash Posts: 1,241
    Pegasus wrote:
    in which case you should get the flac or any other lossless format..
    Absolutely true. But at the very least there is software to burn mp3 direct to CD. There's no need to use wav. :confused: :(
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  • BEnglish017
    BEnglish017 Posts: 455
    on any burning program i have seen you just burn the mp3's as an audio disc and you can play them in any cd player. now if you burn them as a data disc you have to have a player that plays mp3's. which i love b.c you can fit multi albums on one. great for getting a couple of boots on one disc.
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  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    Bangers'n'mash wrote:
    Absolutely true. But at the very least there is software to burn mp3 direct to CD. There's no need to use wav. :confused: :(
    well...technically, those programs in fact convert to wav before burning, you just don't see it.
  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    Pegasus wrote:
    well...technically, those programs in fact convert to wav before burning, you just don't see it.
    Right, there is no reason at all to pre-convert and save any bastard format as a wav when it fact it is mp3 quality. Let Nero do its thing and create your audio CD, but only the mp3 file remains.
  • OffHeGoes132
    OffHeGoes132 Posts: 594
    Sorry if I missed this or misunderstood, but how exactly do you use the plug-in in WinAmp to convert mp3s to WAV? I sympathize with the original poster cause I tend to make regular CDs for working out and for family members/friends. Nero does convert the mp3s to WAV during the burning process; HOWEVER, using a the newer version of Nero, I've found that even when burning at the slowest speed, all of the songs fucking skip horribly. This pisses me off to no end.

    Yes it is a major pain in the ass to convert the mp3s to WAVs manually before burning, but it's kind of my only resort now and I can't find a way to do it effectively....and free of course. Thanks for any info you can provide.
  • darthvedder
    darthvedder Posts: 2,680
    OffHeGoes132 wrote:
    Sorry if I missed this or misunderstood, but how exactly do you use the plug-in in WinAmp to convert mp3s to WAV? I sympathize with the original poster cause I tend to make regular CDs for working out and for family members/friends. Nero does convert the mp3s to WAV during the burning process; HOWEVER, using a the newer version of Nero, I've found that even when burning at the slowest speed, all of the songs fucking skip horribly. This pisses me off to no end.

    Yes it is a major pain in the ass to convert the mp3s to WAVs manually before burning, but it's kind of my only resort now and I can't find a way to do it effectively....and free of course. Thanks for any info you can provide.

    Options -> Preferences -> Output -> Select the "Disk Writer" option -> Click on Configure to select where the files will be saved

    Then you double click on the file you want to convert in your Winamp playlist, just like you would if you were playing it. Instead of playing it, it will convert it. Hope that helps! Good luck!
  • OffHeGoes132
    OffHeGoes132 Posts: 594
    darthvedder wrote:
    Options -> Preferences -> Output -> Select the "Disk Writer" option -> Click on Configure to select where the files will be saved

    Then you double click on the file you want to convert in your Winamp playlist, just like you would if you were playing it. Instead of playing it, it will convert it. Hope that helps! Good luck!

    You're a life saver dude. I really appreciate the info because the newer version of Nero has been pissing me off for a while now. Thanks!!!

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