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Does anyone know how to convert and ITunes song that is in an MP4 format to MP3 where you can upload it to my Critterville Cove page??

Thanks for any help, if this has been brought up before I'm sorry!

iTunes songs have DRM (digital rights management) which are supposed to limit you from sharing/stealing songs without paying for them.

One way of getting around this, is to burn the song to a CD (which removes the DRM) and then re-rip it as an mp3. There are programs that will remove the DRM, but I don't know any specific ones, and they may cost money.

For songs that you have imported into iTunes from a CD, you can simply open iTunes, find the MP4 file, right click it and select "convert AAC to MP3" and it will convert it for you.

As for songs that have been purchased and downloaded from iTunes, I don't think that will work. I believe you would have to use iTunes to burn the song(s) onto an audio (not data) cd and then reimport them as MP3 files.

FunkHouse9 wrote:For songs that you have imported into iTunes from a CD, you can simply open iTunes, find the MP4 file, right click it and select "convert AAC to MP3" and it will convert it for you.

As for songs that have been purchased and downloaded from iTunes, I don't think that will work. I believe you would have to use iTunes to burn the song(s) onto an audio (not data) cd and then reimport them as MP3 files.

data cd work just fine.....

I use a Mac program called Amadeus II; it converts pretty much any type of music file to any other. The list of supported formats includes at least a half dozen I'd never heard of before. It's shareware, and the best approximately $30 I've spent on software in the past five years.

I don't know that I've specifically tried converting an iTunes store file to MP3; I've mostly been working with the stuff I imported from CD. But then, I think I've bought less than half a dozen songs from the store.

SharkOnLand wrote:iTunes songs have DRM (digital rights management) which are supposed to limit you from sharing/stealing songs without paying for them.

One way of getting around this, is to burn the song to a CD (which removes the DRM) and then re-rip it as an mp3. There are programs that will remove the DRM, but I don't know any specific ones, and they may cost money.

This worked great! Now have new Tunes on my Phlockers & Critterville Cove Web sites!


THANK YOU!


I ripped them to a CD, imported them back to I-Tunes hit advance tab and then hit convert selections to MP3 and now all the tunes I wanted to switch are on my web sites!

AlbatrossFlyer wrote:

FunkHouse9 wrote:For songs that you have imported into iTunes from a CD, you can simply open iTunes, find the MP4 file, right click it and select "convert AAC to MP3" and it will convert it for you.

As for songs that have been purchased and downloaded from iTunes, I don't think that will work. I believe you would have to use iTunes to burn the song(s) onto an audio (not data) cd and then reimport them as MP3 files.

data cd work just fine.....

Correct me if I am wrong, but if you burn the files as data and not audio files, don't they keep the copy protection that comes along with AAC format from iTunes? I thought that reimporting it from a data disc didn't get rid of that. Otherwise you wouldn't need to make a data disc. You could just copy it to your desktop and reimport it. I believe every time I've done that, it's come right back in as an AAC file despite my import settings.

FunkHouse9 wrote:

AlbatrossFlyer wrote:

FunkHouse9 wrote:For songs that you have imported into iTunes from a CD, you can simply open iTunes, find the MP4 file, right click it and select "convert AAC to MP3" and it will convert it for you.

As for songs that have been purchased and downloaded from iTunes, I don't think that will work. I believe you would have to use iTunes to burn the song(s) onto an audio (not data) cd and then reimport them as MP3 files.

data cd work just fine.....

Correct me if I am wrong, but if you burn the files as data and not audio files, don't they keep the copy protection that comes along with AAC format from iTunes? I thought that reimporting it from a data disc didn't get rid of that. Otherwise you wouldn't need to make a data disc. You could just copy it to your desktop and reimport it. I believe every time I've done that, it's come right back in as an AAC file despite my import settings.

burning files as data vs audio is not the same as what you're burning them on.

go to iTunes Preferences, select Advanced, then General, from the Import Using: pulldown menu select MP3 Encoder. If you leave it as AAC Encoder, to covert to MP3 select the non-DRM copy of the song in your iTunes library and select convert selection to MP3 format under the Advanced menu.

AlbatrossFlyer wrote:

FunkHouse9 wrote:

AlbatrossFlyer wrote:

FunkHouse9 wrote:For songs that you have imported into iTunes from a CD, you can simply open iTunes, find the MP4 file, right click it and select "convert AAC to MP3" and it will convert it for you.

As for songs that have been purchased and downloaded from iTunes, I don't think that will work. I believe you would have to use iTunes to burn the song(s) onto an audio (not data) cd and then reimport them as MP3 files.

data cd work just fine.....

Correct me if I am wrong, but if you burn the files as data and not audio files, don't they keep the copy protection that comes along with AAC format from iTunes? I thought that reimporting it from a data disc didn't get rid of that. Otherwise you wouldn't need to make a data disc. You could just copy it to your desktop and reimport it. I believe every time I've done that, it's come right back in as an AAC file despite my import settings.

burning files as data vs audio is not the same as what you're burning them on.

go to iTunes Preferences, select Advanced, then General, from the Import Using: pulldown menu select MP3 Encoder. If you leave it as AAC Encoder, to covert to MP3 select the non-DRM copy of the song in your iTunes library and select convert selection to MP3 format under the Advanced menu.

I haven't gone back and tried it, and might be misunderstanding what you're saying, but with a non-DRM file, you can just right click and convert the file to MP3 without a problem. If you buy a song from the iTunes store, then it has the digital rights stuff encoded into it and will only go back into iTunes as an AAC file, even if it is set to import as MP3.

As I said though, I may be misunderstanding what you're trying to say.

FunkHouse9 wrote:

AlbatrossFlyer wrote:

FunkHouse9 wrote:

AlbatrossFlyer wrote:

FunkHouse9 wrote:For songs that you have imported into iTunes from a CD, you can simply open iTunes, find the MP4 file, right click it and select "convert AAC to MP3" and it will convert it for you.

As for songs that have been purchased and downloaded from iTunes, I don't think that will work. I believe you would have to use iTunes to burn the song(s) onto an audio (not data) cd and then reimport them as MP3 files.

data cd work just fine.....

Correct me if I am wrong, but if you burn the files as data and not audio files, don't they keep the copy protection that comes along with AAC format from iTunes? I thought that reimporting it from a data disc didn't get rid of that. Otherwise you wouldn't need to make a data disc. You could just copy it to your desktop and reimport it. I believe every time I've done that, it's come right back in as an AAC file despite my import settings.

burning files as data vs audio is not the same as what you're burning them on.

go to iTunes Preferences, select Advanced, then General, from the Import Using: pulldown menu select MP3 Encoder. If you leave it as AAC Encoder, to covert to MP3 select the non-DRM copy of the song in your iTunes library and select convert selection to MP3 format under the Advanced menu.

I haven't gone back and tried it, and might be misunderstanding what you're saying, but with a non-DRM file, you can just right click and convert the file to MP3 without a problem. If you buy a song from the iTunes store, then it has the digital rights stuff encoded into it and will only go back into iTunes as an AAC file, even if it is set to import as MP3.

As I said though, I may be misunderstanding what you're trying to say.

there are 2 ACC formats. DRM files are "protected ACC" format. unprotected are shown as "ACC" format.

this is the procedure i use...

1) burn the DRM protected song to a CD
2)re-rip the CD into iTunes
3) you'll now have 2 versions of the same song in your library. a "protected ACC" format and probably an ACC version of the song unless you changed the iTunes preferences.
4) the unprotected version can then be converted to an MP3.

AlbatrossFlyer wrote:

FunkHouse9 wrote:

AlbatrossFlyer wrote:

FunkHouse9 wrote:

AlbatrossFlyer wrote:

FunkHouse9 wrote:For songs that you have imported into iTunes from a CD, you can simply open iTunes, find the MP4 file, right click it and select "convert AAC to MP3" and it will convert it for you.

As for songs that have been purchased and downloaded from iTunes, I don't think that will work. I believe you would have to use iTunes to burn the song(s) onto an audio (not data) cd and then reimport them as MP3 files.

data cd work just fine.....

Correct me if I am wrong, but if you burn the files as data and not audio files, don't they keep the copy protection that comes along with AAC format from iTunes? I thought that reimporting it from a data disc didn't get rid of that. Otherwise you wouldn't need to make a data disc. You could just copy it to your desktop and reimport it. I believe every time I've done that, it's come right back in as an AAC file despite my import settings.

burning files as data vs audio is not the same as what you're burning them on.

go to iTunes Preferences, select Advanced, then General, from the Import Using: pulldown menu select MP3 Encoder. If you leave it as AAC Encoder, to covert to MP3 select the non-DRM copy of the song in your iTunes library and select convert selection to MP3 format under the Advanced menu.

I haven't gone back and tried it, and might be misunderstanding what you're saying, but with a non-DRM file, you can just right click and convert the file to MP3 without a problem. If you buy a song from the iTunes store, then it has the digital rights stuff encoded into it and will only go back into iTunes as an AAC file, even if it is set to import as MP3.

As I said though, I may be misunderstanding what you're trying to say.

there are 2 ACC formats. DRM files are "protected ACC" format. unprotected are shown as "ACC" format.

this is the procedure i use...

1) burn the DRM protected song to a CD
2)re-rip the CD into iTunes
3) you'll now have 2 versions of the same song in your library. a "protected ACC" format and probably an ACC version of the song unless you changed the iTunes preferences.
4) the unprotected version can then be converted to an MP3.

I see what you're saying.

But if you create a data cd with a DRM file on it, and then reimport that file, it does not remove the DRM protection, correct?

I'm not referring to the type of physical CD, I'm referring to creating a cd as an audio cd you'd put in your cd player vs creating it as a disc that maintains the file in the MP3 format like a floppy disc would.