Comments on: How to bulk convert WMA to MP3

By: Joseph Whitaker

Joseph Whitaker — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 05:38:19 +0000

Thanks, it worked beautifully. Working with win 7 and had to get “send to” by Start->Run (Type in “shell:sendto” without quotes)

Apart from that, I smply followed your steps.

Thanks alot,
JW

By: Michael Nadar

Michael Nadar — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:39:00 +0000

The script works great. For non scripters.. the character errors are caused by double quotes getting copied as some other wierd character.. Replace those with the normal double quote and the script works great. Thanks a Lot
Michael

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By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:32:27 +0000

This works great!

I use ffmpeg to convert video for my phone, and I use shortcuts in SendTo for Notepad, but never thought about putting a vbs script in there.

Thanks very much for this tip! Now I can listen to wma files on my phone.

By: Mat Dodgson

Mat Dodgson — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:14:57 +0000

Fantastic work my friend! This is so easy and works so well!

By: 3l1t3

3l1t3 — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:20:58 +0000

Thank you very much worked great , exactly what I needed I could right click multiple selected files too, which converted all the files into the same folder , Maybe you can help me with my other task of printing a full list of music songs and artists , I’ve googled but haven’t really found exactly what i’m looking for. not too handy with my own scripts but i figure there has to be a way Thanks again.

By: anon

anon — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:28:38 +0000

vbs replace function http://www.w3schools.com/Vbscript/func_replace.asp

but its more sensible to do what you are doing in this instance any way

By: hm2k

hm2k — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:25:38 +0000

With regards to the quotes, yes, unfortunately wordpress encodes them stupidly, and i’ve not yet got around to figuring out how to disable that. You just need to manually put real quotes in.

As for the rest, you must be doing something wrong.

Use WScript.Echo objExec to return the string, then type that into a cmd, see if it works from there.

It should display an error, and you can take it from there.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:15:47 +0000

It runs the script, but nothing happens? what’s wrong? it’s supposed to convert the existing wma into an mp3 right there in the folder right? any of the test wma’s I’ve used the script on, opens the “lame” looking dialog box for a split second, then says done, but nothing changes to the file, or if it does it doesn’t tell me where the new one is located?

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:04:05 +0000

well I got it to run the script. the issue is that when you copy from “firefox” the quotation marks become smart quotes and the script can’t read them. I finally figured out that you had to open that up in wordpad change the quotes by retyping them, also the longest line of code needs to all be on one line, and it needs to be saved in “unicode text”