Create M4A to MP3 or WAV

I'm new to iTunes and need some assistance. I just purchased an album and it was downloaded to my computer in M4A format. I can not burn this to a disc as a MP3. How can I convert these files so I can burn to a disc?

If the album was iTunes Plus standard you can convert the songs in iTunes. When you convert a song in iTunes it will be converted to the format that you have set to import your CDs in. Converting creates a second copy of the song in the format you have chosen which gives you the opportunity to either keep or delete the original. If you are using iTunes 8 go to Edit>Preferences>General and click on Import Settings, change your option to MP3 for example. Go back to your library and highlight the songs you want to convert and go to the Advanced menu at the top of your iTunes window and choose "Create MP3 version": iTunes: How to convert a song to a different file format
One exception to this are standard copy protected songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store which can't be directly converted due to the DRM (Digital Rights Management) copy protection. However you can burn these to an Audio CD which will work like any regular CD.

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I have a fairly extensive iTunes library which I sync with my iPod Nano 2. My daughter has just been given an mp3 player for her birthday and I'm trying to find a simple way of exporting & converting tracks for her to either mp3 or WAV format without losing my m4a. Any ideas short of burning original to CD then re-importing under her account (where import of CD's is set to mp3)?
I have managed to open an iTunes track as m4a within Quicktime and save as a wav file, but the file size went from 2.6 MB to 11.7 MB - not very practical.
Cheers, Andy
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If the file is an .m4p then it is DRM protected and you can only burn is as an audio CD - you can figure out the rest.
If the file is a .m4a - no DRM - then you should be able to convert it to an mp3 within iTunes. Change your iTunes import options prefs.
MJ

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Yes it does.
Audio formats supported: AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), HE-AAC, MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, 4, Audible Enhanced Audio, AAX, and AAX+), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
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I am using Adobe Photoshop to create a slideshow with digital camera pix. It has option to browse and look for music to incorporate in the show in mp3 or .wav format. When I browse and go to my music/itunes/artist/album and open the album folder, I don't see any songs (it displays only files of type mp3 or wav-- there are no other options).
I can only assume that however itunes works, it is not in a format of mp3 or .wav. Is this a correct assumption? What format does itunes use?
If so, how do I convert itunes format to mp3 or wav? When I click on a desired song from my library in itunes and go to "advanced" at the top I see an option "convert to AAC". What is this?
When I simply drag from itunes library onto desktop it creates a .m4a extension. Adobe Photoshop doesn't seem to recognize this either. Any thoughts?
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AAC is a newly developed codec by a conglomeration of several companies and is used with the MPEG4 ISO standards. It is not proprietary to Apple but it is not MP3 or WAV. See:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/aac/
http://www.vialicensing.com/products/mpeg4aac/standard.html
If you get the "convert to AAC" selection in the menu, then your importing settings are for AAC. Go to: Edit=>Preferences=>'Advanced/Importing' tab and change your setting to MP3.
Then select the song you want to convert and iTunes will create a new MP3 file for you.
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Hi, Ive dabbled very little in actual coding, wrote one python app that these forums really helped me make, and Ive programmed in VBScript and SQL Server, but all academic, nothing for my own uses. I need a program to convert mp3's to .wav's that can then be burned in 'Recorder' to burn the audio disc. I know there are many scripts like this floating around, but I want to do my own, problem is, im lost. I seem to have 2 main problems, getting the file names into a list or tuple, and then actually running the commands to convert using a for loop using lame or mpg321.
this bash script uses mpg321 and sox,
#!/bin/bash
# allmp3wav
for i in *.mp3; do
echo "$i"
tgt=$(echo "$i" | sed -e "s/mp3/wav/")
mpg123 -b 10000 -s -r 44100 "$i" | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - /var/cdrom/"$tgt"
done
This works fine and I understand the code. Its saying for every file that ends in .mp3, run these commands, which do the coding. The only problem is, this doesnt work in python, since its not pythong Can someone give me a little bit of help? Dont give me the program, or give me to much info, links would be great.
1 - Need to Get Directory
2 - Loop through all the .mp3 files and add them to an array.
3 - create a sub directory named "wav"
mkdir ~/wav
4 - copy all the mp3's to "wav"
cp ARRAy to wav/
5 - convert all .mp3's to wav
6 - delete the copied mp3's from .wav directory
for .mp3
rm
7 - tell me how many wavs were created.
for .wav
count + 1
That is just a rough flow chart of what I need to do, and as you can see its pretty bare as of now. Also, I imagine to run mpg321 or lame commands, I need some sort of lame or mpg321 module? Ive read the python wiki for for loops and lists and tuples, but I need more info. Thanks, Justin.

Alright that helped alot, its almost working now, I am using Popen wrong still I assume, here is what I got.
import os
import subprocess
here = os.getcwd()
ctr = 0
for file in os.listdir(here):
name, ext = os.path.splitext(file)
if ext == ".mp3":
p = subprocess.Popen("mpg123 -w " + name + ".wav " + name + ext , stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
ctr = ctr + 1
print ctr
That executes, but gives this error,
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3
version 1.4.3; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others
free software (LGPL/GPL) without any warranty but with best wishes
[readers.c:893] error: Cannot file [Beginning: No such file or directory
[mpg123.c:516] error: Cannot open [Beginning: File access error. (code 22)
[readers.c:893] error: Cannot file of: No such file or directory
[mpg123.c:516] error: Cannot open of: File access error. (code 22)
[readers.c:893] error: Cannot file Whats About to Happen] HWY 74.wav 01 [Beginni
ng of Whats: No such file or directory
[mpg123.c:516] error: Cannot open Whats About to Happen] HWY 74.wav 01 [Beginnin
g of Whats: File access error. (code 22)
[readers.c:893] error: Cannot file About: No such file or directory
[mpg123.c:516] error: Cannot open About: File access error. (code 22)
[readers.c:893] error: Cannot file to: No such file or directory
[mpg123.c:516] error: Cannot open to: File access error. (code 22)
[readers.c:893] error: Cannot file Happen]: No such file or directory
[mpg123.c:516] error: Cannot open Happen]: File access error. (code 22)
[readers.c:893] error: Cannot file HWY: No such file or directory
[mpg123.c:516] error: Cannot open HWY: File access error. (code 22)
[readers.c:893] error: Cannot file 74.mp3: No such file or directory
[mpg123.c:516] error: Cannot open 74.mp3: File access error. (code 22)
2
If i remove the subprocess popen, and just print name + ext and use the counter, it prints out both file name together, and how many mp3's it processed, 2. So i know the program is doing what I want, im just converting wrong. Thanks again.
here is whats in the directory, there is more then mp3's, so I know it is filtering the files properly thanks to your splittext.
justin ~/build/convert $ dir -ls
total 12104
20 -rw-r--r-- 1 justin justin 17138 2008-05-19 17:59 00\ -\ Wretch.txt
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 justin justin 44 2008-06-01 18:20 01
7588 -rw-r--r-- 1 justin justin 7768364 2008-05-19 17:59 01\ [Beginning\ of\ What's\ About\ to\ Happen]\ HWY\ 74.mp3
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 justin justin 44 2008-06-01 18:20 02
4484 -rw-r--r-- 1 justin justin 4588063 2008-05-19 17:59 02\ Love\ Has\ Passed\ Me\ By.mp3
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 justin justin 1284 2008-06-01 18:20 convert.py
justin ~/build/convert $
Last edited by axion419 (2008-06-01 22:23:32)

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I have an iTunes problem someone might be able to help with? I have downloaded a .m4p music file in iTunes. I want to use it in photo editing software that only accepts .mp3, .wav and .wma file types, and didn't detect the m4p file in the folder it was in.
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Tracks purchased from any legal download store carrying major-label content, including the iTunes Store, are copy-protected (with the exception of music on EMI's labels, much of which is also available in a higher-quality, nonprotected format) 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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Hi,
I�m trying to add Codec to an processor because I want convert MP3 to WAV.
When y obtain PlugInManager.getPlugInList (with type=4) only obtain com.ibm.media.codec.audio.ACMCodec.
After make processor.realize(), I inspect the processor CodecChain (before I have added the ACMCodec when processor was in Configured state). But when I inspect the supportedOutputFormat and supportedInputFormat of ACMCodec, don�t find MP3 anywhere.
What am I doing wrong?, Have I install any codec for ACM?, Are There any Plug-in for MP3 to WAV??
thanks.
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ivan1978

Hi,
I�m trying to add Codec to an processor because I want convert MP3 to WAV.
When y obtain PlugInManager.getPlugInList (with type=4) only obtain com.ibm.media.codec.audio.ACMCodec.
After make processor.realize(), I inspect the processor CodecChain (before I have added the ACMCodec when processor was in Configured state). But when I inspect the supportedOutputFormat and supportedInputFormat of ACMCodec, don�t find MP3 anywhere.
What am I doing wrong?, Have I install any codec for ACM?, Are There any Plug-in for MP3 to WAV??
thanks.
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ivan1978

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