{"id":3,"date":"2007-09-20T17:44:53","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T15:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/?p=3"},"modified":"2008-07-20T22:30:33","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T21:30:33","slug":"convert-m4a-to-mp3-without-paying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/archives\/3","title":{"rendered":"Convert M4A to MP3 on Windows (without paying)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In order to find this post, i would give google the instructions: convert M4A to MP3 freeware M4A2MP3 free -linux xp Windows<\/p>\n

So you downloaded a new podcast or whatever and want to convert it to mp3? There are loads of programs\u00a0which\u00a0will do the trick, if you pay. Since paying sucks and isn’t necesarry, follow these instructions to make a cool ‘sendto mp3’ command in windows XP (vista not tested, will probably work too).<\/strong><\/p>\n

You will need the following freeware:
\n1) faad<\/em> for windows to convert a M4A to wav (download here<\/a>)
\n2) lame <\/em>to code a wav to MP3 (download here<\/a>)
\n<\/p>\n

Make sure you save faad.exe and lame.exe in C:\\Program Files\\M4A2MP3
\nFire up good ol’ notepad and copy and past the following ‘code’<\/p>\n

@echo off
\nREM Simple script to convert m4a to mp3, got it from https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/<\/a>
\ncls
\necho.
\necho Going to\u00a0convert %1! Hold tight!
\n“c:\\program files\\M4A2MP3\\faad.exe” -o tmp.wav %1
\n“c:\\program files\\M4A2MP3\\lame.exe” -b 190 tmp.wav %1.mp3
\ndel tmp.wav
\nexit<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

3) In notepad, save this file as “C:\\Program Files\\M4A2MP3.bat”\u00a0(INCLUDE the quotation marks, this way you’re sure notepad doesn’t save it as M4A2MP3.bat.txt<\/strong><\/p>\n

4) Now navigate to C:\\Document and settings\\%username%\\sendto
\n5) Create a new shortcut and link it to C:\\Program Files\\M4A2MP3\\M4A2MP3.bat
\n6) When the shortcut wizard asks you for a name for the shortcut, name it something like “Convert to MP3”
\n7) Give the shortcut a different icon (rightclick and choose properties to change it)
\n8) Now when you rightclick a .M4A file, select Send To <\/em>and choose Convert<\/em>, then wait a bit and voila!<\/p>\n

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It’s also possible to auto-copy it to a mobile device (Pocket PC). If your interested in how to do this, leave me a reply and ill add it.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Yakko Warner improved this script and i believe you should try his on, read all about it <\/strong>on his blog<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In order to find this post, i would give google the instructions: convert M4A to MP3 freeware M4A2MP3 free -linux xp Windows So you downloaded a new podcast or whatever and want to convert it to mp3? There are loads of programs\u00a0which\u00a0will do the trick, if you pay. Since paying sucks and isn’t necesarry, follow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}