convert mp3 to asx

[tyghtwad]

hello all....new to these forums. forgive me if this is the wrong place to post this, but how do I convert mp3's to asx format?

thanks in advance for any replies

[ChristinaS]

Re: convert mp3 to asx

I think what you actually mean is how to convert mp3 to the format understood by asx (which is the handle used to pseudo-stream Windows Media files on the web).

A file with the extension .asx is taken to be the meta-file for pseudo-streaming Windows media files, i.e. wma (windows media audio) and wmv (windows media video). Also meta-files with the extension .wax and .wvx will have the same exact structure as .asx and are used for wma and wmv media files respectively. In addition an asx file can also include mid files and probably everything else that Windows Media Player can understand. All of these meta-files can have several inclusions of media files, thus constituting a playlist.

Once you have encoded your wma file, you could in fact rename it with the extension asx, and Windows Media Player will be able to play it even if it's not actually a meta-file. I am not sure if it will in fact pseudo-stream in such a case.

So first off you want to encode your mp3 file to wma using dMC and then you may want to create the corresponding asx (or wax) meta-file, if you have pseudo-streaming needs.

The asx (or wax or wvx) meta-file will have the following structure (edit it using Notepad):

<ASX VERSION="3.0"> 
<Title>xyz</Title> 
<ENTRY>
<REF HREF="http://www.my_site.com/xyz.wma" />
<ABSTRACT>blah, blah....</ABSTRACT>
<COPYRIGHT>blah, blah....</COPYRIGHT>
<AUTHOR>blah, blah...</AUTHOR>
</ENTRY> 
</ASX>

The only tags you really need to play a file are <ENTRY>... </ENTRY>, <REF HREF...> , and <TITLE>...</TITLE>

For each media file in the playlist you must have a grouping of <ENTRY>....</ENTRY>.

[Unregistered]

Re: convert mp3 to asx

the reason I asked my question that way is because I see several .asx files out there, all audio.

none of them have the encoding you gave but is all a direct link to .asx audio files.

thank you for your reply...I will try it out

[ChristinaS]

Re: convert mp3 to asx

So they must be wma files renamed to asx, if they are not readable by Notepad.

[masoxlover]

Re: convert mp3 to asx

but for me I want to encode the .asx to MP3
how to do that?

[Wayne]

Re: convert mp3 to asx

You will have to amend the files .asx suffix to .wma and download the wma codec from codec central.

Wayne

[ChristinaS]

Re: convert mp3 to asx

but for me I want to encode the .asx to MP3
how to do that?

If it's an audio media file itself rather than a meta file, just rename it to another file name but using the wma extension instead of asx.