WMA to mp3 (was working now isn't)

[donnelr3]

Hi there,

I need to convert wma to mp3 for the purpose of an olympic voice recorder.
Thing is I tested audacity when i first dloaded it on a wma file and exported as mp3. It worked perfectly.
Now Audacity won't recognise other wma's or even the one that I earlier successfully converted.
I still have the converted mp3 file so i know it's not a memory lapse!

Any ideas why this is happening?

Any advice?

Thanks

r

[kozikowski]

<<<olympic voice recorder>>>

How about an "Olympus" voice recorder? Model number?

Given your conditions, the first transfer is broken. Audacity 1.2 does not now and never has recognized Windows Media. I'm finding it really hard to believe Olympus natively uses the propriatary Windows Media format, too. That may be what Windows is telling you....

M4A, maybe.

There's something a little magic going on. Right click on that first WMA file > Properties > Advanced. Somewhere in one of those windows it should tell you sound file format. When you tell me the model number, I'll go look at what it's really doing.

Koz

[tedkopel69]

Hey Koz,

I'm experiencing the same issue. I'm using an Olympus ws-400s

[tedkopel69]

I don't know if this will help anyone but I deleted my preference file for audacity and now it works again.

[kozikowski]

<<<I deleted my preference file for audacity and now it works again.>>>

It still wasn't a WMA file. Someone posted in another thread that Olympus recorders use IMA compressed files and Audacity does know what those are.

Windows assumes anything you open up is a Windows Media file until proven otherwise.

Koz

[donnelr3]

Hi,

'scuse the delay - actually was waiting on a response from my mother. I'm being a good son helping her out - it's her voice recorder...

It's an Olympus WS110 - There's no advanced option in properties that gives me any more info regarding file type just the regular window saying it's a wma file - ... It's interesting what you say though...

Still can't figure out why it worked before, strange...

To the other poster how do you mean "preference for audacity"?

Cheers all

R

[kozikowski]

Audacity keeps its personality in a Preferences System. On Windows Audacity 1.2 (only) that information is held in the Dreaded Windows Registry. All the rest of the versions and platforms, it's held in a file you can easily manage.

Try removing Audacity with the Windows Add/Remove programs and then reinstall Audacity. A "fresh" Audacity should ask you "English?" when you start it. That should clean out the Registry and start over. If it doesn't ask you for a language, then you have a damaged Registry and that's a lot more fun.

Koz

[donnelr3]

great thanks
but how will it be different next time won't it stop accepting again?