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Converting iTunes to mp3?

post #1 of 5
11/3/04 at 3:28pm
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Okay, all. Need your help again.
I've downloaded a few albums from iTunes. Much to my chagrin, Apple has made it so that their copyright protected music (that I paid for) cannot be converted to mp3 format so that I may burn a ton of them to cd.
Anyone know of a way around this?
I was wondering if I might be able to burn the songs as audio to a cd, then load the cd up via Windows Media Player, save it as wma file and then burn it as an mp3 using WMP?
Any suggestions, other than to never buy from iTunes again?
Thanks!
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post #2 of 5
11/3/04 at 9:15pm
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Originally Posted by obimattkenobi
Okay, all. Need your help again.
I've downloaded a few albums from iTunes. Much to my chagrin, Apple has made it so that their copyright protected music (that I paid for) cannot be converted to mp3 format so that I may burn a ton of them to cd.
Anyone know of a way around this?
I was wondering if I might be able to burn the songs as audio to a cd, then load the cd up via Windows Media Player, save it as wma file and then burn it as an mp3 using WMP?
Any suggestions, other than to never buy from iTunes again?
Thanks!
Actually I consider ITunes great, you arent stealing the music and you can listen to bits of it before you buy it, which was the only good reason to file share in my opinion. Now if only they would give me an option to download the file uncompressed I would be in love. If you have a CD Burner, burn it as a regular audio CD, DAO and finalized, not only will you have the advantage of having a CD most semi-modern CD Players(Like in car stereos) can read, but also you can then rip the CD like normal if you want to burn them as MP3s. WMP sucks though, then again I stay away from windows and everything but ITunes is in linux for me so I use CD Paranoia which is one of the better ripping programs I have found, actually very likely one of the best.

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post #3 of 5
11/3/04 at 11:12pm
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Originally Posted by obimattkenobi
I was wondering if I might be able to burn the songs as audio to a cd, then load the cd up via Windows Media Player, save it as wma file and then burn it as an mp3 using WMP?
Any suggestions, other than to never buy from iTunes again?
Thanks!
Burning to a CD and re-ripping will indeed work. There are also numerous programs out there for recording streaming audio. I use Total Recorder (shareware, ~ $12). Re-recording the audio stream saves having to burn a CD and gives you a tool to record net radio or whatever.
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post #4 of 5
11/4/04 at 2:08am
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Thanks, guys.

Actually, I love iTunes. WMP is far from my favorite. I just think that, if I'm actually buying the music, I should be able to utilize it had I gone to Best Buy and bought the CD myself. No restrictions.

But, I understand why Apple did it this way. Just seems like an uneccessary hassle.

Thanks, again.
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post #5 of 5
11/4/04 at 5:52am
i use the program that my audigy 2 came with.."creative mediasource" and i record "what i hear"
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