| Author | Message | ||
     snshirsch Citizen Username: Snshirsch Post Number: 400 Registered: 1-2003 |
So my son recieved iTunes music cards to purchase music from the iTunes music site but does not have an IPOD, but a different mp3 player. I know the iTunes can be played on the PC, but is there a way to transfer the itunes music to mp3 or wma files so they can be played on a different mp3 player. Thanks! | ||
| Bailey Citizen Username: Baileymac Post Number: 442 Registered: 3-2005 |
You can burn iTunes purchased music to an audio CD, and then re-import them as mp3's or wma's or whatever format your player will recognize. You can also use your iTunes gift card to purchase videos, looks like Apple is about to enter the movie-sales/rental business in some way. Or, you can buy lots of TV shows too. I'm nore likely to spend money on movies than TV, maybe I'll even cancel my Netflix subscription. | ||
| Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider  Post Number: 15455 Registered: 1-2003  |
This stuff really ticks me off. I understand Apple lost to France, and now Apple has to sell their music in a portable format. I don't know what's going on with that now. I think it's crazy to burn a CD merely to convert from AAC to MP3. It's time consuming and it wastes disks. There is software to convert the files, but most of it isn't cheap. I have used some of it on a trial basis. One program worked OK but it made gigantic mp3 files for no apparent reason. I know mp3 are normally bigger but these were huge. | ||
| Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 4637 Registered: 7-2002  |
On a Mac you can use AudioHijack, Wiretap, Audio Recorder, or something similar to capture the song in other formats as it's being played. The size of course will be larger according to the rate as to which it is encoded, but than you can always change that with conversion. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/32659 http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/27930 http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ | ||
| Eponymous Citizen Username: Eponymous Post Number: 227 Registered: 6-2004 |
I think the France case isn't definitive. This from the NYT of 7/1/06: Legal experts and industry lobbyists said that the resulting law was a messy compromise that would make it difficult to achieve the goal of the legislation -- to force Apple, or other companies with proprietary music formats, to make their offerings compatible with rivals' digital music devices. ''The bill passed today has softened the core of the first proposals,'' said Hugo Lueders, director for public policy in Europe at CompTIA, an information technology trade association. The group commended the French Parliament for ''passing a more market-oriented copyright protection bill.'' Besides, the law applies just to France anyway. The problem with Apple's ITMS songs is that they have copyright protection, not that they're AAC (though most "mp3" players can't handle that format). You also don't have to burn them to a CD. Try googling "convert itunes without burning". |
