Converting m4a to wma

bonejr

Is there something that I am doing wrong trying to convert large m4a files to wma? I don't care about the loss of sound quality because I am converting audio books and only using voice quality settings. I used iTunes to convert the cd to m4a files and used the "Join CD tracks" to combine all the tracks on a CD into one file. Files come out about 35,000 KB. I get the error message "The creation of output file failed."

I'm using Switch V 1.12.

Thanks for the help.

victorhorta

I have exactly the same sort of problem. I have .m4a files in iTunes that I wanted to compare with .wav files. I can't convert the iTunes .m4a back into .wav.

I can use Switch to convert .wav to .m4a and then back into .wav. What's special about .m4a files created by iTunes ??

They didn't even originate from a CD ripping process - they are LPaudio tracks converted to .wav by Audacity and then transferred into .m4a by iTunes so that I can hear them on my Sonos.

victorhorta

I answered my own question - duh! iTunes has a setting to turn their .m4a files back into .wav. These .wav files are plain old .wav files, readable by all and sundry.

BTW iTunes characterises the Switch .m4a converter as UNSTABLE !

nchtj

>> BTW iTunes characterises the Switch .m4a converter as UNSTABLE !

can you clarify that ?