How to Listen to a WMD File on a Mac and to Convert it to MP3 - No Additional Software Required! - The Internet Patrol

How to Listen to a WMD File on a Mac and to Convert it to MP3 - No Additional Software Required! - The Internet Patrol: "More and more audio files are showing up on the Internet in WMD format, which means that you need to convert those WMD files to listen to them on your Mac or MP3 player. This is particularly true for audio books, which frequently are downloaded as a WMD file. WMD is a format used by Microsoft’s media software, and unless you want to install the Microsoft software on your Mac in order to listen to your WMD file, you are going to have to convert that WMD file in order to listen to it. Fortunately, it’s actually really easy to convert a WMD file to listen to it on a Mac, and to create MP3s of the file so that you can listen on your iPod, iPad, or other MP3 player.

Here’s the deal: a WMD file is really nothing more than Microsoft’s version of a zip archive. It contains the sound files, as MP3 files, and a couple of other extraneous (for our purposes) files.

So, all you have to do to access and listen to the sound files in your WMD sound file is rename it from .WMD to .zip, and open it with whatever unzipping (de-archiving) program you already have on your computer!

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