itunes WMA>AAC doesnt work

ipodandimac · May 6, 2004 1:39PM

Well, I have this DVD due at 7pm EST on thursday, and I need to import (or 'add to library') 2 WMA files my friend gave me. iTunes (4.5) refuses to import, convert, add to library, and everything else I've tried. Any thoughts?

ghost_user_name · May 6, 2004 1:43PM

Are they DRM'd? iTunes won't handle DRM'd files.

ipodandimac · May 6, 2004 1:56PM

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Originally posted by Brad

Are they DRM'd? iTunes won't handle DRM'd files.

i dont believe so--nothing in any of the file info points to protection.

ast3r3x · May 6, 2004 2:08PM

Edit:

ast3r3x - 1

Brad - 2403^487

mattjohndrow · May 6, 2004 2:13PM

you can use sound converter, i think, it's on VT

zo · May 6, 2004 3:23PM

worse comes to worse, try Audio Hijack

paul · May 6, 2004 3:50PM

mrmister · May 6, 2004 6:46PM

iTunes conversion only works on the PC--you know that, right?

mattjohndrow · May 6, 2004 7:16PM

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Originally posted by Paul

um, paul, what is this?

ipodandimac · May 6, 2004 8:12PM

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Originally posted by mrmister

iTunes conversion only works on the PC--you know that, right?

Not until today. Problem solved BTW: I got to use different music (it was a DVD for an organization). Anyways, never again will I stoop to the level of even worrying about WMA.

ast3r3x · May 6, 2004 9:29PM

Ugh...next time I just come right out and say it...not try to be clever and show a picture that explains it all.

john e c · May 9, 2004 11:52AM

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Originally posted by ast3r3x

Ugh...next time I just come right out and say it...not try to be clever and show a picture that explains it all.

I really liked the picture! Wish I could do that.

John

ast3r3x · May 9, 2004 6:13PM

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Originally posted by John E C

I really liked the picture! Wish I could do that.

John

haha, thanks

heifetz · May 10, 2004 2:14AM

I think it is very dissapointing that you cannot convert WMA -> AAC in the Mac version of iTunes. What if a person switches from PC to Mac and wishes to transfer his/her WMA collection to AAC? Apple cannot expect people to know that Mac iTunes cannot do the conversion. I personally have many WMA files that I would love to be able to play in iTunes.

And since when has Apple released Mac software that has less features then the corresponding Windoze version? This is nearing blasphemy imo

.h

cosmonut · May 10, 2004 8:41AM

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Originally posted by heifetz

What if a person switches from PC to Mac and wishes to transfer his/her WMA collection to AAC?

I think Apple's reasoning is that if the PC user wants to use iTunes on a Mac, they're probably already using it on a Windows machine, and therefore would have already converted the WMAs over to AAC.

But I agree that Macs should be able to do it, too.

sobelizzard · May 12, 2004 11:17PM

check out the app EasyWMA on versiontracker.com. I used it last week to convert some files, and it seemed to work pretty well. Give that a go, if you ever have to deal with this ugly format again.

noleli2 · May 13, 2004 4:48PM

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Originally posted by heifetz

less

Ahem...

Fewer, actually.

heifetz · May 14, 2004 12:44AM

Damn, my wma's must be drm encoded since EasyWMA cannot encode them to mp3. It just creates empty files. Oh well..

.h

idunno · May 23, 2004 5:13AM

How do you know if a WMA is protected?

Les.

mattjohndrow · May 23, 2004 12:01PM

if you open them in like, windows media player, or real, it will say "Protected something", and you can't convert them, so, yeah.

idunno · May 24, 2004 7:04AM

Well I took the WMA file off my Mac, and onto the family PC, tried converting it in iTunes, but kept getting a warning saying it couldn't do it until I had Windoze Media Player 9. So i updated WMP , but still kept getting the warning ARGH! So I moved the WMA file back to my Mac, downloaded EasyWMA and three mins later had a formerly-WMA MP3 loaded into my iTunes and playing nicely.

Thanks Easy WMA.

Les T.

itunes WMA>AAC doesnt work

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