M4A to MP3?

Skillers · Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:00 pm

Anyone know some good freeware for this?

Just acquired a lot of music of someone who is a user of that horrid Apple program, so need something to convert.

None of it has DRM, AFAIK.

If there's no suggestions, I'll just pluck a random one from Google.

Si · Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:40 pm

VLC has a wizard, try that

Skillers · Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:42 pm

Ah, thanks, I'll give that a look later.

Skillers · Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:52 pm

Looking at it it doesn't seem to do massive batch conversion and I don't really get how to tell it what to do.

Si · Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:43 pm

Whats wrong with M4A anyway? Its the new standard.

schlurbi · Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:44 pm

MP4A is Itunes isnt it?

Wynney · Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:48 pm

Itunes works for conversion

Si · Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:48 pm

Its MPEG 4 Audio Layer. Like MP3 is the MPEG 3rd Audio Layer.

Skillers · Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:53 pm

My MP3 player and WMP don't play it.

schlurbi · Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:54 pm

i meant when you buy music in Itunes, then it is a MP4A, i have never seen a MP4A somewhere else

and i havent found any free programs to converte them
only one, and you have to pay for it

Wynney · Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:08 pm

If you download itunes, you can use it to convert them all to mp3.

schlurbi · Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:11 pm

and how?
ive never seen any option to converte them into MP3

Skillers · Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:12 pm

iTunes is really annoying and installs loads of crap to do with iPhones and stuff at the same time (iPod service? WTF?). I guess I'm reinstalling soon, so it doesn't matter that much.

schlurbi · Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:13 pm

It only Installs ITunes and Quicktime

Skillers · Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:14 pm

It really really doesn't. Check your processes, you'll find atleast 3 Apple ones there, one of which is iTunes service. I think there's a QT quickstart one aswell.

schlurbi · Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:16 pm

i only have IPodservice and Itunes. well IPodservice really doesnt matter...

Skillers · Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:18 pm

It's the principle that they put it there when I don't need it. I don't have an iPod, I don't want something running that has an entire purpose to look for one so it can bug me if I ever do plug one in. My MP3 player doesn't even need extra software, it runs plug n play with Windows.

schlurbi · Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:20 pm

yes thats true

but i think Itunes is still better than Windows media Player. i dont know why people have problems with ITunes. WMP10 killed my PC and i needed to formate it

Wynney · Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:24 pm

go to settings, rip settings, change to mp3. then when you're on itunes if you right click a track you can choose to convert to mp3.

Skillers · Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:25 pm

I use WMP because it's what I'm used to and I have a lot of wma audio taken from my dad and various places (far in excess of the amount of m4a I have). Also, it works perfectly for me and with my MP3 player.

iTunes, for me, is bloatware, with the point in case being those extra services they try to offload nto your system. Along with that, the iTunes store annoys me for various reasons, such as DRM (fixed now), propriety formats, high costs and low bitrates.

Wynney · Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:27 pm

I like itunes =D

schlurbi · Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:29 pm

well, i like my itunes and i have o problems with it.

@Wyn: i have german Itunes, theres nothing with Settings or a german word for it

Wynney · Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:31 pm

edit --> preferences ---> import settings --> mp3 encoder.

Lord Metritutus · Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:37 pm

http://www.soft411.com/company/ManiacTo ... verter.htm

I got to that after about 30 seconds of googling. Try it out. Hopefully it will work.

schlurbi · Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:39 pm

Wynney wrote:

edit --> preferences ---> import settings --> mp3 encoder.

i found but you'll have to read the little written stuff underneath it too. Those Settings are not for Music of ITunes Store

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