Convert M4A to MP3?

sitheris

sitheris

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I just bought some music on iTunes and I'd like to convert it to MP3 since I trust it more (have heard stories of a coworker losing music due to his computer being deauthorized or something)

What's a good program to convert them? Thanks
 
If you buy music from the music store you can't convert them because of copyright protection. The easy way to get around this is burn the songs onto an audio cd and then recopy them to your pc and the protection will be gone.
 
I've done this before using a program but I forget what I used...I know there's something out there that will let me do it w/o wasting a CD. It's not copyright violation if i bought it....
 
The easiest way without bypassing the dmca is to burn the tracks to a cd and then re-rip the cd to mp3. There's software that can remove the drm, and you could then use dbPoweramp or something similar to convert to mp3, but that would be illegal in the US ;)
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sitheris said:
I've done this before using a program but I forget what I used...I know there's something out there that will let me do it w/o wasting a CD. It's not copyright violation if i bought it....
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It might not be copyright violation, but it is violating the DMCA. You've actually purchased a license to the music, not the actual music, but that's a whole other argument. As to something that won't waste a cdr - try a cdrw.
 
Burn the track onto a CD and then rip it into an MP3, maybe you could also use http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm]dbPoweramp to transcode it into an MP3? I won't know since I don't have any Fairplay AAC files to try out.

Why not rip it as an AAC file? Pesonally, MP3 sounds too "hollow" for me.
 
CrimandEvil said:
Burn the track onto a CD and then rip it into an MP3, maybe you could also use http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm]dbPoweramp to transcode it into an MP3? I won't know since I don't have any Fairplay AAC files to try out.

Why not rip it as an AAC file? Pesonally, MP3 sounds too "hollow" for me.
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I just have mp3 for everything else and want to keep everything liek that...anyway i just burned/ripped...what a pain in the ass
 
Atleast you have that option, Apples method is about as easy as it gets.
 
Burn it and rip it again, but it's gonna sound like ass no matter how you do it. You'll be recompressing something that was compressed to begin with.
 
There was a program that could convert songs you bought on iTunes to .mp3, but I believe iTunes 6 stopped it from working. Like everyone said, your only real option is to burn the songs and rip them manually. And in the future, buy your songs from Allofmp3.com instead.
 
I've formatted my computer several times, and I just did again last night and now it's saying it's authorized on too many computers and to deauthorize it on one of the computers. Ack! I hope that doesn't mean I've lost like 40+ iTunes songs, does it?
 
CKMorpheus said:
I've formatted my computer several times, and I just did again last night and now it's saying it's authorized on too many computers and to deauthorize it on one of the computers. Ack! I hope that doesn't mean I've lost like 40+ iTunes songs, does it?
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Hence the reason for this thread...
 
Hehe..too late. I switched to eMusic for purchases...it's much nicer, and they give you mp3 files by default. :)
 
CKMorpheus said:
I've formatted my computer several times, and I just did again last night and now it's saying it's authorized on too many computers and to deauthorize it on one of the computers. Ack! I hope that doesn't mean I've lost like 40+ iTunes songs, does it?
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That can actually be resolved. Before you format, deauthorize your computer. Apple does allow you to wipe the slate of authorized computers once a year (I don't know if it's per calendar or per 365 days) so you can reauthorize up to 5 PCs.

http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/musicstore/authorization/
Scroll down and look at the section How do I deauthorize all of my computers?

Personally, I left my 168+ files as their origional M4p. It sucks that I can't just burn them to a data CD and play them in my car but I can authorize my desktop, laptop and 3 more PCs and use my iPod in the car so I don't really worry about it.
 
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