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Message:	: : Converting from WMA to MP3 is not a good idea, because you will not gain any sound quality. In fact, since both WMA and MP3 are lossy compression techniques, you will lose a little more quality. : : However, if you must... I recommend the following to do the job: : : - WinAMP, but with the old WMA input plug-in rather than the new one. : : - RazorLame. : : Steps: : : 1) Install Winamp (I think any of the three different options for version 2.x will do). : : 2) Extract the file in WMAOld.zip to Winamp's plug-ins folder. It will probably ask you if you want to overwrite the other file with the same name. Do so. : : 3) Load the WMA file to play in WinAMP. : : 4) Hold Ctrl and press P. Go to the Output Plug-ins section and choose the Disk Writer plug-in. Configure it to put the WAV file it makes wherever you want it. : : 5) Press the Play button. What should happen is the WMA file will play (maybe quickly) without sound, as it is being copied to a WAV file. : : 6) To return WinAMP to normal playing mode again, hold Ctrl and press P, and change the output plug-in back to the WaveOut one. : : 7) Now that you have a WAV file to work with, you can install RazorLame (program to convert WAV to MP3) and put it to use. It's a very simple program, so I trust you will not have any problems choosing a bitrate setting to use and encoding any WAV files to MP3. Since the original file was a WMA and no doubt sounded pretty bad, I recommend nothing higher than 128kbps (the Sharing or Typical settings). : : Have fun! : : http://www.winamp.com/ — WinAMP homepage : : http://www.geocities.com/neorenegade/ — My download location for the old WMA input plug-in for WinAMP and the RazorLame program.