Converting OMA files to MP3

[epzcaw]

Since my NW-HD3 has died twice in six months, I have decided that it is too unreliable, and am going to change to an MP3 player.

I have a large number of files in OMA format generated from CDs which I want to convert to MP3 format. I can do it by transferring to a CD using SonicStage, and then uploading the CD to the MP3 player, but this is rather slow and tedious. I have found some software which will convert the files directly but only on a one-by-one basis which is even more time-consuming. Is there any way in which I can convert the files in a batch?

 

[necropimp]

transcoding lossy to lossy is always a bad idea

 

[notnormal]

Ditto to what necropimp said. Also since they're OMAs file, you have very few choices of software to convert them.

 

[epzcaw]

I use the device for spoken word, not music, so the quality is not all that important. Much of it has been taken from commercial cassettes 9not exactly hi-fi!) by recording these onto CD and then using Sonic Stage to convert to OMA. I could do this all over again, but it would be extremely tedious as it is is a real-time operation.

I can use Sonic Stage to burn a CD from the OMA files and then use that to produce the MP3 files, but this is a two-stage process which seems unnecessarily long.

I found a message in this site which poins to software which will do OMA to MP3 but it only deals with one file at at time, and since I split everything up into 5 minutes tracks, this would take forever.

Since it obviously is technically possible to do the conversion, I hoped that someone would know of some software which will do batch conversions.

 

[terrymx]

i dont know anything about this format, but after research i found this program called HIMrenderer from the minidisc board: http://www.audiotstation.com/forum/s...threadid=25752

the program comes barebone so you need to install your lame mp3 dll in the same folder as the program. hope it'll work.

 

[epzcaw]

This does exactly what I want - excellent.

Thank you.