# Help converting wma files to aiff

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 13, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-converting-wma-files-to-aiff/239797 "2004-04-13T15:29:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-converting-wma-files-to-aiff/239797/1 "2004-04-13T15:29:39Z")

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I need to convert some Windows Media Audio (.wma extension) files to aiff files.

What is the best converter to do this?

I would prefer a shareware or freeware solution and I would prefer the program be Mac OS X software.

Any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![Geoduck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c37758/32.png) [@Geoduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geoduck)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-converting-wma-files-to-aiff/239797/2 "2004-04-14T04:01:45Z")

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If such a product exists, it is quite difficult to find. An easier way, if more imperfect, would be to convert the WMA to MP3 and then convert that to AIFF.

[Versiontracker](http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/23003) is worth checking out.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-converting-wma-files-to-aiff/239797/3 "2004-04-14T05:30:39Z")

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Been a while since my Mac lived, but I had Toast by Adaptek and I think it did this. Could be mistaken, but it’s a start.

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**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-converting-wma-files-to-aiff/239797/4 "2004-04-14T12:44:36Z")

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> [@Geoduck](#):
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> If such a product exists, it is quite difficult to find. An easier way, if more imperfect, would be to convert the WMA to MP3 and then convert that to AIFF.
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> [Versiontracker](http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/23003) is worth checking out.

Thanks. I may have to resort to converting to mp3 first. But because that will lower the quality of the sound, it’s a last resort.

Version Tracker I’ve used before. It gave me a few leads that I’m checking out, but none look really promising.

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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-converting-wma-files-to-aiff/239797/5 "2004-04-14T13:12:14Z")

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[ASFTools](http://www.geocities.com/myasftools/) will convert it to WAV.