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Re: PLEASE HELP! music file conversion!
It's not easy, but burning the songs in iTunes to CD, then importing them to non-Apple product is one way to go...
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Re: PLEASE HELP! music file conversion!
I was under the impression the music format on iTunes was in fact mp3, am I wrong, or can you chosse different formats? Anyway, there are lots of free sound conversion utilities out there, some good, some not, I usually just Google for whatever conversion I happen to need at the moment and see what comes up; ie wma>mp3, mp3>ogg etc.
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Re: PLEASE HELP! music file conversion!
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Originally Posted by Greg_R
Your itunes store purchases can't be played on other hardware (unless you bought the DRM free versions).
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Actually they can. You need to export them to audio CD using a CD-RW and then import and convert them to MP3 using "CDEx" or some other utility. Be sure to set the setting for "CD Text" in the Itunes export options!!!
HUGE time consuming pain in the ass teaches quite a lesson regarding Apple and Itunes. (hint: the lesson is that APPLE SUCKS! Use Amazon for downloads of DRM free high quality MP3s).
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Re: PLEASE HELP! music file conversion!
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Originally Posted by Philip Hamm
(hint: the lesson is that APPLE SUCKS! Use Amazon for downloads of DRM free high quality MP3s).
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Another solution is to not buy MP3s at all. I'll be buying CDs right up until they day they stop making them... and that will be a sad day indeed.
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Re: PLEASE HELP! music file conversion!
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Originally Posted by Greg_R
Ahh, I didn't know that was now possible. I've been using a program that we can't discuss on this forum to get around the DRM issue (and that program is almost as painful as exporting to CD-RW).
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And it's perfectly legit. When Sony shut the door on their failed online music store this was exactly the way they informed users to export their prorpietary SONY downloaded songs.
Philip Hamm
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Re: PLEASE HELP! music file conversion!
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Originally Posted by windbell
As I know iTunes downloaded audio files (M4P - "protected AAC") have DRM protection which prevent users from converting it to other formats or playing iTunes media with other incompatible players such as Creative Zen, PSP, Zune, etc.
So, you will need a professional DRM converter to convert the DRM M4P files to mp3 for creative zen.
Free download Daniusoft Digital Music converter, drag and drop the protected files to it
It can convert the DRM protected music (wma,m4p) to any other formats and extract audios from DRM video (wmv, m4v, asf, etc).  |
Burning an audio CD than ripping it works, too. But is very time consuming for large amount of files.
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