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Originally Posted by john70t (Post 5555987)

Last year the gf got a third party .mp3 player and a $25 gift card for iTunes. She was all excited about having something "new and cool"(like all her friends), and ready to start purchasing music as a habit.
1). So we got the player configured, and she downloads songs from the Apple website. Hmmm, she thought she had only selected only a couple to purchase, but it used up the entire card.
Mabye she made a mistake. Mabye the website needed to be more clear. I don't know. Whatever. Next.

2). The dang songs won't play on her new player. I go to the Apple website and they are listed only as "Apple media files" or whatnot.
Hmmm, it didn't even disclose they were in .mp4 format.

3). Now she's pissed and almost in tears. She's ready to throw the .mp3 player (and the computer) in the trash after we just wasted several hours and $25 on nothing, junk, crap.
She wanted to purchase and listen to the music, but she can't purchase and listen to the music.

Too bad Apple, you lost another customer.
She wastes hundreds of dollars on books. Probably would have done the same with iTunes.

Me?
Long ago when Quicktimetask kept re-installing itself hogging memory, and Apple insisted on DRM nonsense I was outta there.

Is your home computer a PC?

Insert music CD in computer (PC)

Open windows media player... click on the "rip" tab> select format (MP3, WAV, etc.) click on "burn" tab> Windows creates a folder with the name of the CD in your "MY music" folder and copy's the music to it> Plug in MP3 player> it will show up as a drive on "my computer"> drag folder(s) from "my music" folder to MP3 player.

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Originally Posted by red-beard (Post 5555840)

one word:

Tunebite

Itunes does not burn in a mp3 or mp4 format. They burn in a acc format. You need to convert the acc file to mp3.

I won't buy any music from itunes or player from Apple. Got a 16 gig Sony mp3 for less money and it plays and burns everything.

what is the source of the songs you tried to or did burn to a CD?

did you download them from iTunes?

or did you copy them in from a CD?

from the top menu on iTunes, I found "File > burn playlist to Disc", where I had my top 17 songs (17 is the max) top-rated songs (my top songs are 5-star'd for easy selection) pre-selected. I used a standard black Memorex CD-R (700mb)

no, my question is about how you got the songs in, not how you output them onto a disc

Itunes store download ---> DRM issues & you may need to do the conversion ot analog then back to digital (lowering the quality) that red-beard mentioned

your own CDs ---> some other problem, such as file format

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Originally Posted by Z-man (Post 5555872)

IIRC, you can copy your music to CD via iTunes and convert to a different format - ie: MP3.

-Z-man

Might have to learn how to do that. My car stereo says "No Ipod" when I plug it in.

iTunes sucks sweaty donkey balls!

CD wav for quality, Amazon MP3 for cheapo compu music. Pyro Audio or the like to burn and rip or convert MP3 to wav and back.

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Originally Posted by jcommin (Post 6137913)

Tunebite is a program which converts music from virtually any format to any format. In the process, the DRM goes away...

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Originally Posted by rusnak (Post 6139218)

iTunes sucks sweaty donkey balls!

Agreed. iTunes = 256 kb/sec with aac. A CD is 1411 kb/sec. MP3s et al were developed to compress music files (to a barely listenable format imho) when memory was expensive. That is not the case anymore. And once you have compressed a music file, there is no going back. Conversion between formats will convert a file to make it playable but it can't fill in the bits that were lost.

Ian

So true! Don't compress your MP3s! The loss of accuracy is huge.

What,we need is a portable music vault that will store wav files.

Amazon MP3 is non proprietary, so you can transfer indefinitely.

Rhapsody

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Originally Posted by VINMAN (Post 6137658)

This is why I use 8-tracks.....

Don't you just hate it when it goes from track 7 to 8 in the middle of Ina Garda da Vidal?