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Convert WMA to MP3 in Mac OS X for Free

October 21st, 2009 - How to, Mac OS X, OS X Apps, Tips & Tricks, Utilities, iTunes

convert wma to mp3 On a Windows PC recently I ripped a CD only to find out that it was converted as WMA rather than MP3. In Windows this isn’t a big deal, you just open the files in iTunes as usual, but I wanted them on my Mac, easy right? Well for some reason Apple doesn’t allow Mac iTunes to convert WMA files to MP3 audio so I was a bit frustrated, to make matters worse a typical google search will net you a ton of ancient apps that like to crash a lot, or ones that try to charge you some-odd dollars to convert an audio file… forget that!

Thankfully I came across a great app that makes converting WMA files to MP3 in Mac OS X a snap, it’s a totally free program called All2MP3 and works like a charm. It’s not the fastest thing in the world because it has to convert the WMA to WAV to MP3, but it works nonetheless, for an entire album it took a little while so just let it sit in the background while you read your email or something. Once the conversion is done you can play your new MP3’s in iTunes in Mac OS X as usual. It’s worth mentioning that it’s not just WMA’s that can be converted to MP3, All2MP3 converts these filetypes as well: APE, MPC, FLAC, WV, OGG, WMA, AIFF, WAV

wma to mp3 mac If you want to convert WMA files to MP3 in Mac OS X, try All2MP3 first. It’s drag and drop simple and no nonsense, you can download it FREE directly here:

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Comments: 12

Comment from Ricardo Fay
Time: October 22, 2009, 2:32 am

Is asking for a password!

Comment from John Langridge
Time: October 22, 2009, 3:22 am

I’m a bit of a Mac new boy and really keen to get this working.
But when I try to unzip it, the Archive Utility says it is “Unable to unarchive “All2MP3.zip” into “Downloads”. (Error 1 – Operation not permitted.)”
Is this something I’ve done wrong? I tried from both the link above and also the developer site.
Thanks!

Comment from laks
Time: October 22, 2009, 3:51 am

Can you convert DRM wma’s with this?

Comment from Hans
Time: October 22, 2009, 9:36 am

Does not work, I also get Error 1 – Operation not permitted

Comment from Feng Lei
Time: October 22, 2009, 9:58 am

it like the developer site is having problems with download, I just try the same download from VersionTracker and they give the same download link and it has the same problem, I hope owner fixes I want to convert my wma for iTunes mac

Comment from Anne
Time: November 8, 2009, 2:52 am

Does not work!

It looks like everything goes right – but when finished – there is no mp3-track!

Comment from Ptor Praetorious
Time: November 20, 2009, 2:41 pm

Works fine!

MP3 files and a “temp”WAV file for each track are placed where you ask (default = the same folder they originated).
One or two files didn’t convert in the bulk upload.
I just re-ran those separately.

Most likely my fault since I was doing stuff on my system while they were converting.

Easy peasy.

Before this, I was also trying to get this done with other big-time-crashing programs – that needed extra codecs and third party extras, no less.
This is MUCH better.

Thanks!

Comment from henryk Krzeszowiec
Time: November 26, 2009, 3:52 am

I have problem to drag wma files to All2mp3.
The window All2mp3 doasn’t respons.

Comment from Kindour
Time: November 29, 2009, 4:55 am

Thanks for sharing!

I’d like to use this video converter pro ( http://www.softdiggs.com/mac-video-converter-pro-wonder.php ) to help me convert wma (without DRM protection) to mp3 on Mac.

Apart from converting between audio formats, it can be used to rip DVD and convert (HD) videos as well.

Comment from Kristjian
Time: December 5, 2009, 2:08 pm

This program works… easy to use… Thanks a lot!

Comment from Lynsay
Time: January 15, 2010, 6:14 pm

It seems to convert the audio file to a bunch of weird noises when you play it in itunes.

Comment from Dan
Time: January 29, 2010, 5:57 pm

Converted WMA files to MP3 files that were empty. Does not work in Leopard 10.6.

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