file converter for Itunes
Posted: 2006-12-25 11:56am
Are there any files that will allow me to convert Itunes files into ones for Winamp or Windows Media Player?
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There are no "iTunes files". There are file types iTunes can open. WinAmp and Windows Media Player should be able to play AAC and MP3 just fine.Setzer wrote:Are there any files that will allow me to convert Itunes files into ones for Winamp or Windows Media Player?
I've noticed an increase lately in this kind of misaphrension: people have said to me 'I'd use iTunes if it wasn't full of DRM' or 'I don't use iTunes because it converts all your music to some Apple format' or 'iTunes only works with iPods' and the like quite a bit in the run up to Christmas.Durandal wrote:There are no "iTunes files". There are file types iTunes can open. WinAmp and Windows Media Player should be able to play AAC and MP3 just fine.
That wouldn't work with Protected AACs, would it?Tsyroc wrote:You can certainly burn them to CD and then put them back on your computer in whatever format you normally rip from CD's.
I'm not sure. Do the protected ones even let you burn them to CD?Dalton wrote:That wouldn't work with Protected AACs, would it?Tsyroc wrote:You can certainly burn them to CD and then put them back on your computer in whatever format you normally rip from CD's.
Yes it does, if you make sure to convert it to an audio CD first, and then import them back as mp3s or whatever. Takes patience if you don't have a CD-RW, I can tell you. And about 24 hours. Depending on how many you have.Dalton wrote:That wouldn't work with Protected AACs, would it?Tsyroc wrote:You can certainly burn them to CD and then put them back on your computer in whatever format you normally rip from CD's.
From idiots who still think Apple only uses its own special protocols and formats, ala Mac OS 9. Also from open source zealots who think equate "proprietary" with "evil". The train of thought goes something like "Oh it's an Apple thing so they must apply DRM to your ripped music." They don't even bother to verify it; it is just assumed to be true.Stark wrote:I've noticed an increase lately in this kind of misaphrension: people have said to me 'I'd use iTunes if it wasn't full of DRM' or 'I don't use iTunes because it converts all your music to some Apple format' or 'iTunes only works with iPods' and the like quite a bit in the run up to Christmas.
It boggles the mind. iTunes is just a piece of audio software, and aside from niche formats it plays pretty much everything, and it hardly introduces new DRM into files used with it. Where do these ideas come from?