Music file help

[papersun87]

I need to change some of my music files, which are currently m4ps or whatever the heck iTunes stores them as, into mp3s. How do I do this?

 

[strigori]

You cant. iTunes are DRMed with a proprietary format that nothing other than the itune player or ipod can play. Which is why I do not touch anything apple.

 

[papersun87]

For real? Dang.

 

[AR Husker Fan]

Apple does offer some DRM-free tunes, but you (used to, anyway) have to pay a bit more for them - I think $1.29 or something. If you have any like that, then you can convert them I think. But I would guess the majority are in the proprietary, DRM format.

 

[AR Husker Fan]

Oh, yeah - moving to the Computers and Technology section. Someone there may have a suggestion, but I'm pretty sure it can't be done.

 

[bennychico11]

it's annoying, but you can get around it.

Burn them to an audio CD with iTunes...then rip them back again to a WAV or MP3 format. Preferably WAV if you have the file space because compressing to MP3 will just degrade the sound quality even more.