Re: converting windows media sound to wav?

Okay, I've tested this and it worked:

mplayer -ao pcm file.wma

This will produce "audiodump.wav" which I was able to import into Audacity.

On 11/10/06, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:51:20 -0800
> "Seth Wegner" <[email protected]> dijo:
>
> > Have you tried playing it in mplayer? If it'll play in mplayer, it'll
> > encode in mencoder.
>
> It'll play in mplayer. Also in totem and vlc. RealPlayer, however, says
> it is not supported (although RealPlayer on my Windows 2000 desktop
> *will* play it). It will also play in Windows Media Player, installed
> via Crossover Office.
>
> WMA is not on the list of supported file types for Audacity.
> Nevertheless, Audacity opens it. But when I try to play it in Audacity
> I get a screaming noise for a few seconds. (The file is several minutes
> long.) Audacity offers the ability to export the file to Mp3 or to WAV.
> I tried both, then opened the exported files into Audacity. Got the
> same screaming noise.
>
> I used lame to convert it to Mp3. When I opened the resulting file into
> Audacity, it plays just static.
>
> I can't figure out how to use mplayer to export to another format. I
> spent 15 minutes reading through the man page and finally gave up. Too
> many options, too little understanding of the terminology. Pretend that
> I'm 100 years old and my idea of playing music is to put vinyl on the
> record player. In other words, I do not understand what an of the
> options are referring to.
>
> In an attempt to resolve this problem I copied the files to my Windows
> 2000 desktop. There, they play fine in RealPlayer. I downloaded and
> installed Winamp, which also happily plays them. And I downloaded and
> installed Audacity, which gives the same result as the Linux version.
>
> Why do I want to play them in Audacity? Wouldn't one of these others do
> as well? Well, the others do play the files just fine. But these are
> recordings of a Tibetan informant from which I must record the sound
> segments. I mean, very detailed transcriptions. It is very hard to hear
> such details, but Audacity has the ability to slow down the tempo
> without changing the pitch. This is invaluable to me. And I have never
> found another audio player that has this capability.
>
> And why are these files in WMA format? Because constructing the
> phonology of Tibetan is a group project and one of the group members
> has a brand new hand-held digital recorder. I don't know what brand it
> is, but it is about the size of an iPod mini and comes with a USB
> connector. I can download the files right to my computer from the
> device. Unfortunately, it records in WMA format, and I don't think
> there is any other option.
>
> So that's the problem. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
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