Can I convert WMA files to WAV using Winamp?
If you have the ‘full’ version of Winamp it can play WMA files, and you can try writing to a WAV output file using the Nullsoft Disk Writer plugin… but sometimes it won’t work – you get a message saying “Sorry, no .wav writing support for DRM enabled WRM streams”. This figures, I guess. Winamp is basically playing by the rules set by Microsoft et al. There’s no technical reason for not doing this… it’s a “policy” thing. One way around this kind of restriction is to use something like “Total Recorder” (from www.highcriteria.com)… this is a shareware program that basically defines itself to Windows as an audio device driver, so basically you pick Total Recorder as your default Wav output device, and it will record whatever you are playing (no matter what the source of it is), and pass on the data to your actual sound card drivers or whatever for playing. If you have a full duplex soundcard you should not even need Total Recorder – if you play a .wma file you may be able to record i
