free mp3 to wav batch converter?

May 5, 2006 12:00 AM

Is there a good, free, non-shareware limited batch converter for taking a bunch of mp3s and making them into wavs?

In particular, I'd like to take the free samples available at the bottom of this page and be able to tool around with them using pspkick 3.0 without having to do the conversion one at a time since as far as I know, soundpacks for pspkick can only be in .wav format. (winXP pro if it matters)

posted by juv3nal to technology (10 comments total)

itunes can batch convert any format it plays to wav/aiff/mp3/aac/apple lossless (why doesn't that have a cool ancronym?).
posted by sammich at 1:25 AM on May 5, 2006

Doesn't have Winamp a diskwriter/filewriter plugin so it can simply write the mp3s to disk instead of playing them? Google reveals this.
posted by donut at 1:48 AM on May 5, 2006

PS: If you need something working on the commandline I think the DOS port of mpg123 could be helpful. I'm using the linux version for converting mp3s to wavs. I don't know if the DOS port works as good as the original.
posted by donut at 1:54 AM on May 5, 2006

Thanks. Hadn't even occurred to me that winamp would have something for this built-in.
posted by juv3nal at 2:51 AM on May 5, 2006

If all else fails, google Sound Forge -- not by any means free, but there's a 30-day trial and it will happily bulk convert your files while you're in the trial period.
posted by mmoncur at 3:19 AM on May 5, 2006

As far as I know, there's no limit to the number of files CDex will convert at one time.
posted by Clay201 at 3:24 AM on May 5, 2006

If you do any amount of audio file format converting, dbPowerAMP's converter is a great piece of software. It can convert anything to anything (audio-wise), as far as I can tell. No limits on batches. They do charge for an mp3 codec license, after a 30-day trial, but for $14 it is hard to beat.
posted by monopas at 3:40 AM on May 5, 2006

Take a look at Switch. Nice little program and the basic version is free. It does a good job of batch conversions
posted by 543DoublePlay at 3:57 AM on May 5, 2006

Foobar2000 also has very powerful conversion tools, also deals with ReplayGain, allows renaming according to ID3 tags, etc.
posted by Sharcho at 5:09 AM on May 5, 2006

Though I don't currently have it downloaded to test, Audacity was a very useful music editing/conversion program with a lot of free features.
posted by jmd82 at 7:28 AM on May 5, 2006