.WMA files

just in case anyone has an answer to this:

i transferred a .WMA file to my mac (yosemite macbook air) and used quicktime player 7 to convert it so something a mac can play

but it has no sound (and since all it *is* is sound -- it's an interview -- this is annoying): no sound on QT, no sound on iTunes

(it's playing ok on the recording device i used but i need to transcribe it and it would be easier to stop and start if it was on the mac)

I've had good luck with using the free ffmpegx (at ffmpegx.com) for converting difficult audio files. It does handle WMA. You'll have to install a couple of additional files aside from the app itself (detailed on the "download" page).

vlc will play anything you throw at it, always good to have around: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

yeah, I would say that VLC is a good choice in that it's meant for playing things but does a decent enough job of providing conversion options for output