Converting music in itunes..

i need to convert music in itunes so that my purchased music will work with serato itch software ......HELP

huwalloneword wrote:
... so that my purchased music will work with serato itch software
If by any chance you have purchased DRM-encumbered files, which were sold by the iTunes Store until 2009, be aware that they only work in Apple products.
You can replace them with non-DRM files in AAC format for 30 cents apiece, or you can use iTunes to burn them to an audio CD, which can be used like any audio CD.

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Help transferring converted music into itunes

here's the problem
I converted my .wma songs to .aac songs with an outside converter because itunes kept shutting down every time i tried to convert the .wma songs there
anyway, i converted the songs but now itunes wont let me transfer the songs in the music library
i have tried everything, the file add to library, the folder add to library
it wont let me transfer the converted songs
please help I am going out of my mind here!!

Surprising, since if they play in Quicktime they shoudl be OK in iTunes.
I suggest go back to step 1. Take one of the original files and convert it to MP3 this time. Does that MP3 work in iTunes?

Convert music from USB-drive to iTunes on a new iMac

Hi, I just got a new iMac, and I used Windows before.
I have a lot of Music on a USB-drive and I want to know how to convert it to iTunes.
Should I just drag and drop it to iTunes? or should I create a folder on the mac, move the files to the folder and then drag it to iTunes (like Windows)
Thanks for the help!

Open the iTunes preferences and check to see whether it's set to copy files to the iTunes Media folder when they're added to the library. If so, just dragging it to iTunes is enough.
Note that the Mac OS X version of iTunes won't import unprotected WMA music.
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Is it possible to convert music on my PC to a playable new ipad format without using itunes?

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sure, you will need your iPhone running the latest iOS, an Airport Express and a wifi network....a computer for the initial setup of the router and Airport Express too.
One you have complete the setups, the only thing you need to connect it's to make sure your wifi network is on and that your iPhone and Airport Express are connected to the wifi network.
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iTunes Store: iTunes Plus Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1711 - extra tips at: https://discussions.apple.com/message/20001723
10/2012 post saying iTunes Plus option is possibly no longer working or at best erratic - https://discussions.apple.com/message/20050696
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any old music that has the protection on it will not transfer. nothing you can do but move forward... apple was forced to remove the protection and thats why new music will transfer

I recently purchased music on itunes store and it will not synch to my iphone. It says it will not convert

I recently purchased music on itunes store and it will not synch to my iphone. It says it will not convert. The music will play in itunes but certain tracks from the album won't synch to my iphone.

Delete it and redownload from here:
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How do I convert my existing iTunes account to a .mac account?

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We'll be happy to convert your account for you. Please provide your old account name, your new .Mac account name and your billing address in your email. We will also need your explicit permission to reset your password to complete the conversion."
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http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/musicstore/email/
I FOLLOWED THE INSTRUCTIONS ABOVE!
I am now on my fifth exchange of emails with iTunes support.
HAS ANYBODY SUCCESSFULLY EXECUTED THESE INSTRUCTIONS? I don't want to lose the ability to play my existing purchased music, but I want to close down Earthlink as my ISP.
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Select/highlight the ones that you want to change in your iTunes library, do Get-Info (control-I) and change their Media Kind on their Options tab to 'Music Video' - and then similarly for the podcasts.

How can I get my (vinyl) record music into iTunes Match?

I have a rather large collection of music on CDs, Tapes, and records.
Now that iTunes Match exists I would like to include all of my music into my iTunes library.
There is no easy way (that I know of) to load anything except CDs into iTunes. So for the rest of the library one must either buy all the music again or buy equipment to play the music one time and convert it to a newer format.
My CD collection is mostly loaded and since 99.999% (virtually all) of that music is already in iTunes Match it is not uploaded to iTunes again, but it quickly becomes available to play on all my iTunes Authorized Devices.
With the exception of that 1 in ten thousand songs that I may have that iTunes does not have in the Match library there is no reason to import the music at all - other than to prove I have the actual CD's. (In any case I suppose I could have borrowed them for that anyway.)
However for CDs at least they can be imported - but for tapes and records I know of no direct way.
With something state-of-the-art like iTunes Match and my PC(s), iPhone(s) and iPad, why use stone-age-like means to prove ownership of outside-of-iTunes music?
Why not provide some other information to identify albums owned and have them available in iTunes Match without the 99.999% useless step of loading them?
In fact for most tape music it is no longer playable (to convert) as the rollers in the tape devices deteriorate and they no longer play.
Vinyl records play just fine, just not easily into a PC without purchase of expensive equipment that would be used only for the one-time load (which is really just for proof-of-ownership).
What a ridiculous waste of time, energy and funds for that 1 in 10,000 songs that may not yet exist in the iTunes Match library. Okay, as the music gets older it may even be 2 in 10,000 - but I doubt it.
I remember that each album (and 45 rpm single) has identifying information scratched into it (around the inside of the innermost track) - can that (or something else) suffice as proof of ownership to get the music into iTunes Match?
Please respond with ideas to quickly and easily get already-owned vinyl record music into an iTunes Match library.
I personally do not care if 1 (or 2) out of 10,000 of my songs gets lost because it is not in the iTunes Match library - couldn't be that good in that case anyway.
Thanks!!

I too have not figured out how to convert my vinyl collection to iTunes match. Here is what I have tried:
I record my vinyl records onto CD using a Sony RCD-W500C which makes a very high quality recording. I make sure the song lengths are the same as those from the same album at the iTunes store.
Then I import the CD into my iTunes music library. I have to enter the names of the tracks manually because Gracenote cannot identify the names of the songs. I do this while the music is in my iTunes music library and the CD has been ejected from my PC.
Then I try to get the iTunes Match, but it never works. I do, however, get the artwork from iTunes. iTunes then uploads my songs into the iCloud. When I download them back onto my PC and iPhone 4s, I get the identicle recording that I imported onto iTunes. I know this because I can hear the static and crackling of the vinyl. I don't necessarily mind that noise, but I figured if I paid for the iTunes Match I should get the AAC 256 bps music. After all it doesn't cost iTunes anything to give it to me. And there's no way I'm going to purchase all my vinyl records again. I have about 500 albums.
I do buy all my new music from iTunes because I think it is the best system available. I just think it could be so much better if they would let me download the highest quality recording of the music I own from them.
I have also tried the Sony Sound Forge Audio Studio which records my vinyl records into a music file on my PC. But that doesn't get the match either.
THERE HAS TO BE SOMEBODY OUT THERE THAT CAN TELL US WHAT ITUNES MATCH LOOKS AT IN OUR MUSIC UPLOADS THAT DETERMINES WHETHER THEY GIVE US THE MATCH!!!!!!
When you download a CD, there is some information embedded in the CD that iTunes matches. I don't believe there is any information embeded in the vinyl albums, but when I burn them onto a CD-maybe I could add the info onto the CD before trying to match it if I just knew what they looked for.
I would appreciate any help anyone can give me on this.

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You will have to use a third-party program to convert WMA files, iTunes won't do it.
If you have WMA and MP3 files in the same folder, go into list view in the Finder and click on the top of the 'Kind' column to sort by kind and separate them. (If the 'Kind' column doesn't show, enable it in Finder menu 'View'>'Show View options'.
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I am running iTunes 10.6.3 on my OSX 10.5.8 . All of a sudden (well, maybe I just noticed it, but definitely within the last three weeks) - can't remember if I updated in that time period), I am unable to add music to iTunes. I can't drag and drop, can't do file --> add music to library, nothing. If I get music by converting youtube to mp3, THAT opens in iTunes, but I've just downloaded an entire album and don't really want to go converting fifteen+ songs one by one.
I don't have Cloud, don't have match.... can anyone help me?

Hold down the option key while starting iTunes, then select library. Your library is stored in your Home > Music > iTunes > iTunes Library.itl file
iTunes can be picky about mp3 formatting and not all mp3s files are created the same.
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Music files / itunes conversion - making it simple!

Hello
I am looking for some general and probably simple help with the file formats of my music.
I have a vast amount of music which is stored on my computer hard drive, some of which is stored in m4p format and some in wma and some in mp3? Some of my music files are stored twice and some are in different formats. When i convert my music to itunes i find that most of the music converts 3, 4 and sometimes 5 times? I dont understand this!
I really want to have a simple system for storing and converting music. If my music is to be stored on my hard drive i just want each music file stored once and in the same file format so when i search my music it is easy to find the artist i want. With itunes i just want the music to convert once. This all may seem very simple to someone but to me i feel like i have a complicated system and i just want to tidy it up and make it easy to manage. Can anybody help! Thank you.

I really do not understand what all the different formats are so even trying to talk about this is difficult but i will try. I have all my music stored on my hard drive but it seems to be in different places. When i click on my music i have a number of artists listed with their music. I then have a folder in this section called itunes which has also got a big list of artists in it which seems strange. So i have one big music folder with all the music in plus an itunes folder with a lot of the music in also. Do i need to just copy all of the music to the itunes folder on my hard drive?
When i use itunes to organise my music i click on file and then add folder to library and then send all the music in the folder 'my music' to itunes. Obvisouly i have just done this once at the start. When i add the folder a pop up comes with - some files are not in the itunes format, do you want itunes to convert them for you. When itunes has finished adding and converting i have 4 or 5 copies of each track in the itunes library??? I then have to use the delete duplicate option to get rid of tracks. When i then take my music to other computers and want to copy it into itunes it does the same so it seems to be a problem with the files on the hard drive.
Ideally, i would like one copy of each music file in my hard drive plus when i copy to itunes it just copies once. Also when i take this music to a seperate computer i want it to copy into the itunes library once.
If you require further info then no problem
I appreciate your time and help
Thank you.

Converting music in itunes..

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