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Admiral_Cook
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April 28, 2011
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Import WMA into CS5.5

  • April 28, 2011
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I know it has been removed in CS5.5 but is there any way to get it back?

I have some old wma audio clips which I'm forced to use.

It's ok to remove export to wma ability but reading support for many different formats is always good to have.

Is there some plugin to read wma in CS5.5 or a way to copy/paste wma import support files from Audition 3?

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    Anonymous
    October 19, 2014

    use Format factory, it will import/export audio, video, to different formats, and has a couple of other tricks it can do ;-)

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    AMXkyle
    New Participant
    February 24, 2012

    I know this is an old post, but I found it so I know others will too. The best solution would be to follow the Adobe Media Encoder advice, but use WAV as the output. If you get an audio file in WMA, this is a very quick way of converting to a usable, lossless, uncompressed audio file for editing.

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    Sam.Hull
    New Participant
    February 27, 2012

    I appreciate the workaround suggestions, but for those of us with an existing library of multiple thousands of WMA masters taking up hundreds of gigabytes of space, this extra conversion step is a huge, deal-breaking PITA.  Durin, the Adobe guy above, said that native WMA support for the Windows version of Audition is "in the feature database."  Does that mean that support is going to be restored sometime soon for this widely used standard audio format, or are we stuck with using 3.0 forever?  Our shop's investment in CS5.5 has been of no practical benefit whatsoever for the last year, and I know we are not the only ones in that boat.

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    _mark3
    Known Participant
    May 8, 2012

    We realize this has been long in coming, but WMA is now supported in CS6, along with several other new formats:

    http://helpx.adobe.com/audition/using/supported-file-formats.html

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    Glen Harness
    New Participant
    August 26, 2011

    Imagine my surprise when I realized that Soundbooth had been replaced by Audition. No big deal I thought. It's supposed to be a "better" program. So I tried to open a WMA file and nothing. I then tried to open one of my Soundbooth project files. Nothing.

    I've been producing podcasts for the last two years with Soundbooth CS4 and CS5. My audio recorder records in WMA format. Now because I "upgrade" I can't use either file format?

    This is riduculous.

    I get that I can convert from WMA to WAV, but the whole reason I figured out how to use Soundbooth was that it supported WMA files when the podcast editing software I was using at the time didn't support it well (for some reason, if a project used a WMA file, the project could only be exported as a WMA file, not MP3).

    I'd hoped to be able to uninstall CS5 to get the space back, but it looks like I at least need to keep Soundbooth around.

    Is there some utility that will convert Soundbooth project files to Audition project files?

    Glen

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    Anonymous
    June 2, 2011

    How is it that cs5.5 does not support the cs3.ses file and that there's not even a convert function included. this means that all my cs3 projects are pretty much useless as i can not import them into cs5.

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    Sam.Hull
    New Participant
    May 13, 2011

    This was a huge disappointment for our shop - we work daily with a library of thousands of archival WMAs made from reel-to-reel masters, processing them for web streaming, radio programming, etc. CoolEdit/Audition has been the tool of choice for over 15 years, and I loved all of the Audition upgrades until this one.  I was really looking forward to multiple core support, etc. but every job requires a format conversion before I can get started. Very frustrating.

    -Sam-

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    dustinwilson80
    Known Participant
    August 11, 2011

    I too work with WMAs fairly often. I don't have soundbooth to work with either. But, as quick work-around, the Adobe Media Encoder works pretty well. It can convert from WMA to MP3.

    Maybe to help you out, you could create a "Watch Folder" that housed all your WMA files and let Media Encoder convert them to MP3s.

    Anyway, just thought I'd pass on my work-around.

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    bobbutler7
    New Participant
    August 11, 2011

    Thanks Dustin!

    Bob Butler

    Reporter, KCBS Radio

    Vice President Broadcast, National Association of Black Journalists

    Vice President, AFTRA

    925-381-1890

    bobbutler7@comcast.net

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    steve lyles
    New Participant
    May 6, 2011

    I know this is an additional step...but import the .wma

    into soundbooth CS5 (assuming you didnt uninstall it:) and save it as a .wav file then open it in Audition 5.5

    cheers

    steve

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    Admiral_CookAuthor
    Known Participant
    May 9, 2011

    I don't want to use Soundbooth. I never liked it, and never used it. And I don't want to install whole separate program just to read and convert WMA. It's not some new format that we need to wait to be implemented in popular programs. I wish you to give as back ability to read/write WMA in Audition.

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
    SteveG_AudioMasters_
    Adobe Expert
    May 9, 2011

    Admiral Cook wrote:

    I don't want to use Soundbooth.

    It's too late anyway now - it's been unceremoniously scrapped.

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    bobbutler7
    New Participant
    April 29, 2011

    That's one of my disappointments with the Mac version. The older versions allowed you to save as mp3's, wav's, aiff's, wma's etc. Now you can only save as wav's, mp3's, aiff's.

    _durin_
    Community Manager
    _durin_Community Manager
    Community Manager
    April 28, 2011

    Native WMA support did not make it into CS 5.5 for either platform, although perhaps ironically wma/wmv files import just fine on Mac with the the Flip4Mac QuickTime plug-in.  A feature to implement native support, at least on Windows, is in the feature database for Audition.

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    rehrmn
    New Participant
    May 9, 2011

    I downloaded the trial of CS 5.5 and not being able to import WMA is a big disappointment seeing as our business records in that format and seeing as WMA (Windows Media Audio) is the standard for Windows operating systems.

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