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Old 14-03-2013, 14:25
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Does anyone know of a legal music download site where you can download tracks in WMA format?

I like to download tracks in WMA so that I can create my own compilation CDs before converting them for my MP3 player.

I'm not interested in free downloads (too risky), I just want a legal site where you can choose which format to download in. I've found masses of sites but they only seem to let you download in MP3 format.

Thanks for any suggestions.
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Old 14-03-2013, 14:50
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Could you first explain why you wish to download them in .wma format if the ultimate intention is to make an mp3 compilation? It doesn't seem to make sense.

Edited: sorry - see what you mean now. There are plenty of ways in which you can convert mp3s to wav format, which as far as I know, is the one you want for making a CD that you can play on a CD player. It is a major gripe that you are expected to pay for an mp3 download that is vastly inferior to CD quality - a left-over from days when download speeds were much slower.

My PC came with a ready-installed program called Power2Go, which is extremely effective at converting to almost any format. http://www.cyberlink.com/products/po...n_GB.html?&r=1
There is a free download, but I'm not sure if that is simply a trial version. I've been using it for a long time now and I would have thought it was worth paying £40 for it, but if the free download is actually a more basic version, you might still find it does everything you need.

As for downloading at CD quality, I'm afraid that iTunes, etc, are merely encouraging people to borrow each other's CDs and copy them.

Further edit: it seems that it is a basic, genuinely free download, that may be all you need, but you still can't upscale the quality.
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Old 14-03-2013, 14:52
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I think he/she wants to put them on a complication CD then onto the MP3
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Old 14-03-2013, 16:46
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Thanks for replies. Yes, nothing mysterious about it really. I have a CD player which I like to listen to while I'm in the kitchen (I'm a she!) and we have an MP3 player on a dock in the living room.

All I want to do is get songs I can burn on to a CD. I've done this lots of times and have home made compilations of all different tracks. Then I just rip the CD's on to Windows Media Player in MP3 format and load them on to the MP3 player.

But as it seems almost impossible to download WMA tracks I think I will download the converter suggested. Many thanks.
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Old 14-03-2013, 17:40
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Why burn WMA's when you can burn MP3's?
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Old 14-03-2013, 18:56
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All I want to do is get songs I can burn on to a CD. - But you can burn mp3s onto a CD

Then I just rip the CD's on to Windows Media Player in MP3 format and load them on to the MP3 player. - Why are you making work for yourself? Just go direct from mp3 files on your computer( that you downloaded to make the CD) to the mp3 player

But as it seems almost impossible to download WMA tracks I think I will download the converter suggested. Many thanks.

You need no converters, just the ability to realise you are doing it in a very long winded and difficult way for yourself.
It is simple. Download mp3 files. Then burn them to make an audio CD. Now copy them to your mp3 player. You have the CD you require. You have them on the mp3 player as required.
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Old 14-03-2013, 19:17
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dBpoweramp

Marvelous tool
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Old 15-03-2013, 00:36
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Why burn WMA's when you can burn MP3's?
It is simple. Download mp3 files. Then burn them to make an audio CD. Now copy them to your mp3 player. You have the CD you require. You have them on the mp3 player as required.
Because the quality of mp3 is vastly inferior to the uncompressed, CD-quality wav format (wma is much better, but also compressed). You can convert an mp3 to wma or wav, but you obviously can't upscale it from the original, highly compressed information squashed into an mp3.
Power2Go will rip a CD to wav files without any loss of quality. I can't remember if you can do the same with Windows Media Player - perhaps you can.
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