Hello Tom, I was only trying to bring your attention to what it is you are doing and attempting to do. I don’t know these utilities that are obviously been created to simplify the process. You appear to be looking for a quick no fuss utility.
I cannot guess why your workflow didn’t work on this occasion. The only way you would establish why the file became corrupted. Or maybe it didn’t maybe there is something that has been done to the file that Winamp doesn’t like. Have you tried another player? Have you looked at the file-size to see how it differs from the original. There are so many things with what you are doing to the files that could cause Winamp to refuse to play it. What do Winamp error messages say. Have you considered getting a copy of something like audacity and learning that? It will be a lot easier with such a program than taking the easy way of using these little utilities that mangle your files. But if they work for you sometimes and you are happy with that then fine. But you will have to investigate why it didn’t work this time. I don’t think anyone here could guess what has happened. Unless they understand how these utilities work and have been using these utilities for some time to know their little quirks. Have you wrote to the program suppliers for support? Good luck, > On 3 Jun 2020, at 23:09, Tom Kaufman <tomca...@comcast.net> wrote: > > To Tony and Georgina: I forgot to mention that Zoom does create more than one > file; one of the files is named Audio_Only; if I'm not mistaken, this > particular file is the M4A and will play in Winamp! But if again, if I > convert to MP3, then Winamp absolutely will not play it in its converted form! > Tom Kaufman > > -----Original Message----- > From: all-audio@groups.io [mailto:all-audio@groups.io] On Behalf Of Tony > Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2020 5:53 PM > To: all-audio@groups.io > Subject: Re: [all-audio] Trying To Convert File To MP3 > > I have used Audio Converter Plus for M4a files. It will alsw convert M4B > files if you rename them to M4A. > > I also use Free M4A to MP3 Converter. It can split M4B books into chapter > files. > > Both can reduce the bit rate if the files are too large as long as you don't > go too far and lose sound quality. > > Tony > > -----Original Message----- > From: all-audio@groups.io [mailto:all-audio@groups.io] On Behalf Of Tom > Kaufman > Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2020 3:50 PM > To: all-audio@groups.io > Subject: Re: [all-audio] Trying To Convert File To MP3 > > Okay...I tried converting to WAV; same result: file won't play! One of the > files in this group is "audio_only; this file in its original form is an M4A > file. I need to make an MP3 file so I can then run it through MP3 Direct cut > and take the unwanted stuff out! Can this not be done? I know that MP3 > files definitely can be cut as I've done it often enough! So what is it I'm > doing wrong here? > Thanks, > Tom Kaufman > > -----Original Message----- > From: all-audio@groups.io [mailto:all-audio@groups.io] On Behalf Of Georgina > Joyce > Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2020 4:28 PM > To: all-audio@groups.io > Subject: Re: [all-audio] Trying To Convert File To MP3 > > Hello, > > You are working with 2 lossy formats. You should convert to wav or another > lossless format make your cuts etc then convert to mp3. Because you might not > know it but this is what switch would have been doing in the background. I am > guessing that something wasn’t carried across to the mp3 file. This will cut > down on the number of downward conversions. Which is important because each > conversion further detail is lost, hence their name lossy formats. > > HTH > > Gena >> On 3 Jun 2020, at 21:14, Tom Kaufman <tomca...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> Hello list: Am attempting to convert an MP4 file to MP3; here's what is >> happening: I am using the program Switch to convert this MP4 file to an MP3 >> file, so I then can running it through MP3 Direct Cut to trim some parts >> off! However, while I have managed to convert to MP3, then I find I have no >> file.at least, the file isn't playing in Winamp; nor will it play in MP3 >> Direct Cut! What is it I am missing? An doing this for a friend who needs >> this, so am hoping I can get a solution to this one! >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tom Kaufman >> >> >> >> > > Gena > > Call: M0EBP > DMR ID: 2346259 > Loc: IO83PS > 73 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Gena Call: M0EBP DMR ID: 2346259 Loc: IO83PS 73 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#3388): https://groups.io/g/all-audio/message/3388 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/74658171/21656 Group Owner: all-audio+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/all-audio/leave/1074140/405281159/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
