Converting .spc files to mp3s/wavs?

[Azure]

I managed to get some .spc files of some SNES games and I noticed that they are surprisingly pretty darn good quality (I'd buy the soundtrack but it is out of print and costs ~$200-$300 on eBay nowadays). The only problem is that they are .spc and thus cannot be played on my Karma (My Karma's my main source since I don't have access to a computer more than 3 days a week and I have crappy on-board sound). Right now I'm using winamp (I know, I know; I'll get foobar when I get a decent soundcard) with an spc plugin to play the songs which sounds great, but is there anyway I can convert the .spc files to mp3s or wavs without losing any sound quality in the conversion? I hear WinAmp can convert any file format that it can read to .wav, but exactly how much quality would I be losing here if I do it this way? Thanks in advance.

(I decided to post this here because I'm using my computer as a source here to play the .spc files and I think this is where most of the people who could help me out would be)

 

[Helter Skelter]

Winamp's Disk Writer Output plugin will work very well for this. Foobar's SPC plugin won't automatically cut off silence at the end, so you'll always end up with 3 minute tracks if you use that.

So for Winamp, just make a playlist with the tracks you want to convert, hit ctrl-p to go into the options, head to Plug-ins-Output, and select Nullsoft Disk Writer Output. Hit configure and choose where you want the resulting wav files to go. Hit Ok and get out of those screens and back to the player. All that's left is to hit play. After that you just convert the WAVs to mp3 or Ogg Vorbis for your Karma.

 

[Azure]

Will I be losing a lot of sound quality that way? I'm guessing this is the best way to do it without losing too much SQ? I noticed that it "plays" through the songs; does the volume setting/EQ make a difference?

 

[Helter Skelter]

I think it ignores volume and DSP settings like the equalizer. To be sure, though, just diasble the EQ and put the volume at 100%. The only loss of sound quality at that point will come when you convert the wavs to mp3 or ogg. That of course, should be relatively negligible.