WMA format and iTunes

Greetings: I am trying to download audiobooks from the Riverside County Librrary. The Help person sent this to me. Quote "Note: You cannot listen to an eAudiobook in protected WMA format in iTunes."unquote. I have iTumes 10.1. If iTunes can;t open WMA Format is there anything out there that can for an iMac? I have an Intel 2.4 core 2 duo Moc OS 10.6.4. What can you Tell me about this?
John

What about Flip 4 Mac? That plays WMV's
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/windows-media-player/wmcompo nents

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I get a message the songs are in wma format and iTunes will convert them to AAC format - do I select Convert or Skip. I ripped new CDs I bought using Windows Media Player and they are saved on my C drive. I have done this before but cannot do it now.

If you want to play them in iTunes, choose "Convert." This will allow iTunes to create new AAC versions and add those new versions to your iTunes library.
The original WMA files will still be in the folder(s) wherever they currently are. iTunes will ignore the WMAs once it has the converted versions. It is then up to you if you wish to keep or delete your WMA origninals.

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By converting the WMA files to AAC formatted files.

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My husband has an mp3 player that uses the wma format, so we have a lot of songs in the audio folder. Initially I simply transferred all of them into the itunes folder and they were converted to mpeg-4 format. Now as more files have been added to the audio folder, I would like to convert them to mpeg-4 and get them into my itunes folder. I can't seem to figure out how to find the ones that aren't already in the folder and just transfer those. It wants to transfer all of them and then I have duplicate songs. Anyone have any ideas?
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Have had no trouble in the past but now it's everything I download.
So all these things used to play in Quicktime and iTunes and won't? Downloaded now and in the past? Even previous mp4s? This is what I gather from your last statement.
Have you changed the file extensions to match those for mp4s iTunes will accept?
Have you updated any media related software on your computer since everything last worked?

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Hey, I just joined this library audiobook service. http://nwwanytime.lib.overdrive.com/3C976B44-8233-4FB1-BF03-31B0FF85F967/10/504/ en/Help-QuickStartGuide.htm The books come in various formats including MP3, trouble is it seems every one in which I might be interested is marked "OverDrive WMA Audiobook." It says they play on iPod but I don't see how, since I know regular WMA format is completely incompatible with iTunes, and if I can't get material into iTunes I don't see how to get it onto my iPod. I joined NetLibrary through my local library and more than half the titles were completely useless being in WMA, including most of those I most wanted. Someone here gave me the name of some program which converts WMA to MP3 but I haven't had time to mess with it yet. Thing is, NetLibrary is free through my local library, so I can mess with those books anytime, but if Washington Library Anytime has something NetLibrary doesn't, is it worth my time trying to download titles in OverDrive WMA Audiobook? Because I had to pay to join this other library and the card expires at a certain time. If it's going to expend gallons of blood, sweat, toil, and tears to get the books to play, I'll have to give them the go-by, but if it's not too much of a struggle I wouldn't want to miss titles I could have otherwise obtained if I knew what was involved. Is this some kind of special WMA or are they just misinformed or lying? Is there something special I should do to make it work, or should I just give those books up as a bad job and concentrate on what I can actually make work? Thanks.

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3. Highlight the mobile device in the left hand menu of iTunes and insure the "Manually manage music and videos" box is checked in the Summary Tab.
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Apple Application Support 2.3.2
iPod Updater Library 10.0d2
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Gracenote MusicID 1.9.6.115
Gracenote Submit 1.9.6.143
Gracenote DSP 1.9.6.45
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WebKit accelerated compositing is enabled.
HDCP is supported.
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ATI Technologies Inc., AMD Radeon(TM) HD 6520G
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OMG same thing here; rather annoyed and now have set up accounts on 2 comps(both 64 vista ultimate); about to try my 32 bit vista on my lappy; we'll see... i don;t have high hopes thoush.
What i knew about iPhone before buying it:
What You Need
To use iPhone, you need:
A new two-year wireless service plan with AT&T
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Mac OS X version10.4.10 or later
Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later
Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate edition
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An Internet connection
You must be at least 18 years old to open a new AT&T wireless account. You will need a
major credit card to open a new iTunes Store account.
Yeahyeah check all that stuff;
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I know they need to be converted, but the problem is, 2000 of the 5000 have already been converted. now it's trying to convert them again. but there is no reason for that. i want to know how to convert the other files that weren't converted yet, without having to re-convert the ones that were already done.
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hi Tom!
It's in WMA format and said it needed to convert it. Then it said it was protected WMA.
can WMP burn the files to an audio CD? if so, you should be able to reimport the songs from that.
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WMA formats, How do I import into iTunes?

Hi There, This is my first time here...
I purchased a new CD and wanted to add it to my library, but I couldn't. So I asked their "tech support".
I have cut and pasted their response.
My questions: How do I copy the songs to iTunes?
and in the last para of the response, they make it sound like Apple is the hold up for making this process easier, is that true? is there an easy fix for this?
THE EMAIL BEGINS HERE......Thanks
Hello Tangela,
Thank you for contacting us. We appreciate your purchase of the Anthony Hamilton CD and will be happy to assist you with the music transfer.
Please follow the instructions below in order to move your content into iTunes and onto an iPod:
If you have a Mac computer you can copy the songs using your iTunes Player as you would normally do.
If you have a PC place the CD into your computer and allow the CD to automatically start. If the CD does not automatically start, open your Windows Explorer, locate the drive letter for your CD drive and double-click on the LaunchCD.exe file located on your CD.
Once the application has been launched and the End User License Agreement has been accepted, you can click the Copy Songs button on the top menu.
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Using Windows Media Player only, you can then burn the songs to a CD. Please note that in order to burn the files, you need to upgrade to or already have Windows Media Player 9 or greater.
Once the CD has been burned, place the copied CD back into your computer and open iTunes. iTunes can now rip the songs as you would a normal CD.
Please note an easier and more acceptable solution requires cooperation from Apple, who we have already reached out to in hopes of addressing this issue. To help speed this effort, we ask that you use the following link to contact Apple and ask them to provide a solution that would easily allow you to move content from protected CDs into iTunes or onto your iPod rather than having to go through the additional steps above. http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html
Please let us know if we can assist you further.
Thank you,
Rob
SunnComm Tech Support
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To answer your Question in short, yes apple is the hold up. A more detailed answer follows.
THe steps they tell you to do are basic steps for removing protection or "DRM" usually. Most record companys today go all out to protect there copyright songs by putting DRM "Digital Rights Management" or protection on them. Almost all the world (Last I looked it was roughly 95%) of the world uses a PC with Microsoft on it. Since Microsoft installs windows media player on all windows, the record companys have found it most easy to have there songs copied with the program in the "Protected WMA" file format.
Apple and Microsoft are from 2 different worlds and have went against eachother pretty much the whole 20 something years modern computers have been around. Since Microsoft made and owns the WMA format, any company that makes products that will play this format have to pay what they call a "Royalty fee".. Apple isn't about to pay micorsoft for anything like that, as they themselfs are pushing there own royalty fee based format of AAC. Apple does offer in iTUnes to convert UNprotected WMAs.
The steps they gave you to do (as they didn't mention to you cuz they don't want you to know) is steps for actually "Taking off" or "Removing" the protection off the song. the industry has yet to figure out how to keep protection on digital songs when its being burned to a CD. So when its burned to the CD and the protection is off, now iTUnes has full access to the music

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