ITunes music issues
My iMovie HD will not allow me to put purchased music songs on my timeline without password verification. I do the password verification and it doesn't do anything. This never happened with Panther. So I get Tiger and this is how Mac rewards me? Do they think I am going to publish the next Citizen Kane on iMovie?
Is there anything I can do?
High Regards,
Dan
Hi Dan:
This is all the result of Apple being careful with the piracy problems out there right now.
Probably the best workaround is to burn your tunes to an audio CD and then import into imovie from there.
But before anything, please read what Apple has to say:
iTunes: "privileges" or "permissions" issue when importing audio CD or adding music to library
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300198
And this from Dan Slagle:
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/audio/1003.shtml
Sue
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