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Post by The Doctor on Aug 23, 2012 22:16:46 GMT
How do I make music tracks from Itunes work as an MP3? I know there's supposed to be some kind of button to convert files but I am buggered if I can find it and the help option is useless. MP4A's are no use to them as my portable player only runs MP3's. Thanks.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 23, 2012 22:38:45 GMT
Make sure you have the right track selected.
Go to the menu bar at the top. Go to advanced and the drop down should have a create MP3 version. Then it will do it's stuff!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 24, 2012 8:46:54 GMT
That's what I had been trying to do, but there is no such tab under advance other than something called 'create AAC version'.
I really dislike Itunes. Very difficult program to use.
-Ralph
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Post by Dave on Aug 24, 2012 13:52:59 GMT
This should work:
Click Edit, then Preferences.
Then on the general tab click "Import Settings" next to the when you insert CD bit and change AAC Encoder to MP3 encoder from the drop menu.
That sorts out any CDs you rip in the future, but you will also find that the previously mentioned "Create AAC version" option is now an MP3 one.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 24, 2012 18:50:02 GMT
Thanks. I now see the MP3 setting. But when I try to convert what I want to MP3 I get a message saying that is not allowed!
-Ralph
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Post by Dave on Aug 24, 2012 19:11:54 GMT
Baffling.
I had a quick look around and it appears to be some DRM bollocks.
It's not a super-quick way to get your music onto your player (and I haven't tried it) but apparently if you burn a CD and then rip it back to itunes that should solve the problem. A re-writeable disc would be preferable for obvious reasons.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 24, 2012 19:30:11 GMT
Ah well. Just another reason not to buy from Itunes, for me.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 24, 2012 20:16:36 GMT
What was it you bought from iTunes?
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 24, 2012 21:30:22 GMT
The Batman: Knightfall audio play. I wanted to listen to it on my MP3 player.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 24, 2012 21:45:18 GMT
Ah that explains it. Mp3's aren't copy protected by apple anymore but their audiobooks still are.
I may have an mp3 version of it kicking around.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 24, 2012 22:05:16 GMT
I'll never buy an audiobook from them again! I can't hear it the way I want to.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Aug 25, 2012 8:13:58 GMT
The Batman: Knightfall audio play. I wanted to listen to it on my MP3 player. -Ralph Silly Ralph, actually wanting to listen to something you bought at your own convenience |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 25, 2012 8:26:37 GMT
I know. Ironically, if I had got it from *cough cough* I would have been able to listen to it without problems!
That's the last straw with me and Itunes. I never liked their store front, interminable terms and conditions, price-points anyway. I can get digital audio from other (legit) places much easier.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on May 22, 2016 13:15:34 GMT
I hate iTunes. I got an ipod nano at Christmas to listen to podcasts as it was becoming increasingly difficult to synchronise podcasts from mp3 sources and in terms of straightforward mp3 players, apple seem to have the market totally sewn up these days. I think everyone uses phones, so like mini video cameras, dedicated players of reasonable quality are dying out.
But itunes is a mess. I had just about got used to the bizarre podcast synch interface and worked out all the pitfalls (like the massively irritating fact it deletes part listened to files from your ipod, so every time I synch I have to manually re-add all the things I'm only half way through listening to) but then the other day it updated to a new release of the software, which has served only to make an even bigger mess of the interface and now I haven't a clue what it's doing. I really don't see how when Apple pride themselves on simplicity that they cannot get something so simple as this right.
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Post by The Doctor on May 22, 2016 13:40:47 GMT
I rarely use Itunes due to the unfriendly user interface.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on May 22, 2016 14:44:39 GMT
iTunes is the most horribly optimised programme ever. Slow and crashy and laggy and MY GOD SERIOUSLY?  |
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Post by The Doctor on May 22, 2016 15:04:52 GMT
It also can't display de-interlaced video! 'HD' my hairy arse.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 30, 2016 9:31:20 GMT
Yes, it is a pain in the hoop, and seems to get worse with each passing revision/update.
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 17, 2016 10:59:17 GMT
Thank you, Apple, for wasting an entire hour of my precious weekend time trying to work out why iTunes won't recognise my ipod after accepting the prompt to install the latest software update.
You really are the shittiest of shit software producers.
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I would happily pay money for third party software to manage my ipod if it could integrate with itunes to download new podcasts.
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 5, 2019 19:24:53 GMT
Foolish Pinwig wasn't thinking properly. I've been after watching the first series of Chris Tarrant's Extreme Railways series as I don't think I caught it when it was on. I was about to buy the DVD when I discovered iTunes has an HD version of the same thing. My brain is wired to the fact that all the podcasts I listen to via iTunes are DRM free, as have been the few albums I've bought through that method. So I paid my £6, downloaded the video files, and a frustrating hour later have realised I now own the series in HD but can only view it on my PC screen because the files are DRM protected. I do not wish to do this, I want to watch it on my TV. Schoolboy error. Now I'll have to buy the DVD anyway, watch it in lesser quality, and make a mental note never to buy anything from iTunes again. I HATE DRM. I have just bought these bloody files, why can't I watch them the way I want to?
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 5, 2019 20:10:20 GMT
That is annoying.
My general rule of thumb is I only buy something digitally if I can download it and access it independently of the architecture of where I bought it from (this is why I stopped using Comixology for example). I've been caught out this way a few times before!
DRM is silly. If I've bought something I should be able to consume it as I like. Alas, media is moving towards a 'rental only' model across the board.
-Ralph
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