Adding iPod Songs to Windows Movie Maker

I want to add songs I have in my iPod for a video i'm making, but when I go to...
My Documents << My Music << iTunes << iTunes Music
And click on any artist and their song, the song is like in a m4p format. How do I fix it?
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Windows XP
Windows XP

This has been covered here a number of times already, but once again:
Tracks purchased from any legal download store carrying major-label content, including the iTunes Store, are copy-protected and so cannot be directly converted to any other format. You can, however, burn the tracks purchased from the iTunes Store out to an audio CD, at which point it will act just like any other normal audio CD.

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i'm having a problem too. i can't find where to go to post a new topic this site isn't great at having that stand out...but anyways i want to make a movie and i got all these great songs i got from itunes...but i can't use most of them. just recently i did some stuff and now i can access some that i got on this computer. on my last computer i bought songs off itunes but then it started to crash so i saved them to a huge memory drive and then reimported them to my new computer. None of those songs work but the ones i've gotten on this computer so far do...it says something about the codec not being supported but i don't know where to go to download a codec or whatever it's talking about. Someone please help.

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Your downloaded music is in Apple's AAC(m4a) format and Windows Movie Maker does not accept this format. You can convert it to mp3 in iTunes.
Itunes menu, EDIT/PREFERENCES, GENERAL tab. Go in IMPORT SETTINGS, under IMPORT USING, you have various Encoder, AAC. AIFF, APPLE LOSSLESS, MP3 and WAV. Select MP3 encoder, then OK and OK.
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*I paid for the song and should be able to do whatever I want with it.*
They protect it because it is not yours to do with whatever you want, just as a CD is not yours to do with whatever you want.
A copyright allows you to do certain things but it also does not allow you to do certain things such as selling it or relabel it and call it yours.

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You need to install an AAC codec or use iTunes to convert the songs to MP3. If those songs contain DRM, neither method will work.
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Sean Pieroth wrote:
I am making a video on windows movie maker and I want to add a song into it from my iTunes, but when I found the songs, they were just empty folders.
Is it possible for me to import the song onto windows movie maker, after all I did buy it.
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Hello, a1p2r3.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
There are a couple options available to you to transfer purchased media to your computer. Below, I have included a couple articles that outline this process.
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1848
Please note that this feature works only for items that were purchased on the iTunes Store. Any items imported from audio CDs or acquired from other sources will not copy from your iPod to the iTunes library.
Download past purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
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Jason H.

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joseemarie wrote:
I feel as though I've purchased them and can't use them anywhere else other than on my iPod and computer.
If they are protected files, that's correct. You can only use them on iPods, authorized computers and Apple TVs.

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You can use the AVS Video Editing software to import MPEG-4 Movie files in the same way you'd import .avi files into Windows Movie Maker. Also, the AVS Video Editor will allow you to import iTunes .mp4 audio files and incorporate them into your soundtrack. If you still want to use Windows Movie Maker for your video editing you can also use video conversion software from the same company, i.e. AVS Video Converter 6, to convert from MPEG-4 into .avi or .wmv format. I've found converting to .wmv to be considerably slower than converting to .avi though. Here's a link to the AVS video software offerings below. BTW, the AVS Video Editor can be used for free, while there's a charge for the Converter.
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It's for my grandfathers funeral video tomarro and i can't get the songs i just purchased on itunes to work. They play but wont work when i drag them to the movie maker program. it says that the codec for the song isn't installed. codec?

werm21 wrote:
It's for my grandfathers funeral video tomarro and i can't get the songs i just purchased on itunes to work. They play but wont work when i drag them to the movie maker program. it says that the codec for the song isn't installed. codec?
The songs you purchased are in AAC format, which Windows Movie Maker cannot handle. You can use iTunes to make MP3 versions by following this guide: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1550 and the MP3s will work fine.
Note that when iTunes does a conversion it creates a new file and leaves the original in place. Make sure you are grabbing the new MP3 for your movie and not the original AAC.
Sorry to hear about your grandpa.

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What file format is the song in, Lauen?
To check, right-click on the song and select Get info. In the Summary tab, what is it saying next to "Kind"?

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You may need to convert the file to mp3
iTunes: How to convert a song to a different file format
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1550
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