by Kariudo » Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:23 am
m4a...sounds like an itunes music file.
anyway, winamp sohuld be able to play it, and you can convert audio files using winamp.
open the file in winamp, go to options, preferences then scroll down the list until you see "output" under plugins
click output once, then look on the right half of the menu for "Nullsoft disk-writer plugin"
click that and click the configure button.
next, click the output directory, and make desktop your output directory (so you can find the file)
next, look for the output file type drop-down menu, and select "force wav file"
then click ok, and exit out of the preferences menu.
now hit play...you won't hear any sound, but that's normal (it's just converting the file)
when you're done you'll want to go back into the options, preferences menu and go back to output, and click "directSound output"
then exit out of the preferences menu and winamp
(this makes sure that you resume playing files instead of converting them)
I'm not as knowledgeable about audio...so this may be barbaric bashing of the audio (like sending a mob to beat up a person until they convert to .wav) so if anyone knows a better way of doing this using winamp please post it.
your version of winamp might be different, but it shouldn't be too different between versions