M4a conversion to mp3 files

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Duplicate Library from Conversion of MP3 Files?

OK, so I converted all of my MP3 music files over into I Tunes to the MP4 or whatever format; Does that mean that I can delete all of the huge files of MP3 music on my hard drive? Or do I need to keep those files for I Tunes to reference back to?

Did you import your files into iTunes first and then convert them? If you used iTunes to convert the files then you now have two copies of everything in your library. 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. Is there any particular reason that you converted your MP3 to AAC, iTunes can use either. Converting from one lossy format to another can result in further quality loss. It's a bit like photocopying a photocopy, the farther you get away from the original the lower the quality.

How to replace m4a conversion files with original mp3 files in iTunes library to reduce disk space?

Hello
I have a rather large music collection most of which is in mp3 format and also kept in seperate folders to my iTunes music. I had iTunes set up copy media to iTunes folder as m4a so now have two sets of files which are now taking up a large proportion of my hard disk space. Is there an easy way to move my mp3 files into the Itunes folder to replace the copies then delete the copied files.
Many thanks

By m4a are we talking compressed AAC? Those don't take up any more room than the equivalent mp3 and probably give you better quality.
Are you positive those files are m4a? If iTunes is set to copy media when you add it to the library I don't think it converts. It only converts when you import.
Since we're not talking replacing mp3s with mp3s I don't know if there is an way to more or less invisibly replace the files. If you were replacing a file with one of identical file name, you can trick iTunes into accepting it. Since the new files end in mp3 and the old ones in m4a I suspect you will end up having to add the new files and delete the others. This will of course mean you have to rebuild playlists and update tags. Before you delete the old copy you can use Dougscript "Copy Tag Info Tracks To Tracks" to transfer some of the tag information that you might wish to retain such as playcount, ratings, last played, etc.

ITunes will no longer play nor add to the library any mp3 files which I have created by conversion from a wav file.

I am running iTunes 10 on XP Pro and it will no longer play those mp3 files which I have created by conversion from wav files. I tried to delete some from the library and then re-add them but iTunes will not add them back to the library.
Can anyone help solve this, please?

Back up your purchased music before you upgrade, I've read at least 5 cases where purchased music has just gone.....missing.
That is not supposed to happen, didn't happen to me or thousnds of other iTunes users, but you don't want to be the 6th person, do you?
There are two things to try before you upgrade:
Barbara Hall, "Unknown Error (-208)" #1, 07:42pm Oct 19, 2005 CDT
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302478

Conversion oF AIFF file to MP3 on a macbook.

I CANNOT DO THE CONVERSION OF AIFF FILES ON MACBOOK TO MP3. " CONVERT TO MP3" DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE :ADVANCED" MENU USING ITUNES 8.1 VERSION ON MY MACBOOK. "CREATE IPOD VERSION" IS ON THAT MENU, BUT NEVER AVAILABLE FOR USE.
I can convert AIFF MUSIC AND AUDIO FILES IN iTunes , on an old G3 USING ITUNES 8.1, TO MP3 FILES
USING ITUNES ADVANCED MENU.

[iTunes: How to convert a song to a different file format|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1550]
[Zevoneer's post on converting songs|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9244740#9244740]
P.S. All capitals makes people think you are shouting at them.

Can I burn .m4a and .mp3 file on the same CD?

I downloaded a few podcasts and have one in .m4a format, the other in .mp3.
Can both be burned onto the same CD via iTunes -- or do I need to convert?
And if so, what format should both podcasts be in?
Thanks.

Can both be burned onto the same CD via iTunes
Yes.
And if so, what format should both podcasts be in?
If you want an audio CD, just put all files into a playlist and click *Burn CD* then select Audio CD. iTunes will convert them to CD audio.
Selecting Data CD/DVD in iTunes will burn the files as they are. They can be MP3, AAC, AIFF or whatever and will be burned in that format (useful for backing up files)
If you select MP3 CD (this is the format of the files on the CD), the files must already be in MP3 format.
This is the same as a Data CD/DVD except iTunes will use only MP3 files (because many players can play MP3 files).

How do I import .mp3 files on a CD to .m4a files in iTunes?

I have several audio books that are .mp3 files on CDs. Since they are books, they work best in iTunes as .m4b files, which I can convert from .m4a, but when I import to iTunes, the files import as .mp3 files. There's lots of help to go from the .m4a to .mp3, but not the other direction - does any one have any suggestions? Thank you!

With iTunes 8.x you have the option to tell iTunes to treat any audio file as an audiobook, so there is no need to change format (avoiding the consequent loss of fidelity that would entail). Just drag the files from the CD into your music folders, then add to the library in the usual way. Chris has already explained how you set the *Media Kind* to Audiobook. On the same tab you can also set options to *Remember playback position* and *Skip when shuffling*.
Assuming, however, that the books consist of more than one file you may have problems if you plan to listen to them on an iPod. The Audiobooks feature was originally designed for books that have been stitched up into a single file and hasn't been updated to reflect the changes that make multi-track audiobooks easy to work with in iTunes. There are tools for creating iPod-friendly audiobooks for which Aldo on Audiobooks is probably the best reference. Personally I don't bother with the extra effort and just have an "Audiobooks" playlist folder containing sub-folders for each author and within these playlists for each audiobook.
tt2

ITunes / iPod having problems with lyrics in MP3 files and not with M4A ?

Over the last two month (without this forum) I believed sometimes to be the only one having a weird problems with iTunes lyric format structure.
Now after more than 50h of investigations interesting results appear.
The field of trouble:
a) People are not able to delete lyrics in iTunes
b) People discover that iTunes and their iPod/iPhone do not show the same lyrics
c) it seems that the lyrics of certain songs can't synchronised with the iPod
d) it seems that the problem in iTunes can appear more than one times that itunes corrupts the contents of lyrics in a way that:
e) the text structure is damaged, no more line breaks, no empty lines between text sections.
After all my suspicion is: All of this trouble can be caused by one problem:
iTunes (at least latest version 9.0.3 (15) has a -unkonwn- problem with the lyric-text structure in MP3-files. It seems that iTunes does not have the same problems if the file is in M4A-file format, created by apple-store files being downloaded, or CDs being converten in iTunes using the build in AAC-converter!
Converting "infected" files (via AAC) to M4A are clean again (on iTunes and iPod) showing no more one of the trouble ahead. The ghost is eliminated. Everything synchronizes as it should be.
And I for myself have to convert more than 3000 songs now... to ged rid of this nightmare.
Now I'm very curious of You experiences. Can You confirm my suspicion? Or have You had similar problems with Your M4A-files too?
- Best Regards ThomasK_DJ, south Germany

Try this -> http://mp3val.sourceforge.net/ to verify and fix MP3 files.
Also, it could be the version of the ID3 tags.
Select a song in iTunes then go to iTunes menu Advanced -> Convert ID3 tags and select a different version and see what happens.

Audio Recording - Conversion from .caf files to mp3 / flv

Hi,
Does anybody has done any dynamic audio conversion from .caf files to mp3 or flv format? Basically we have an Iphone app that is recording audio and it saves the data in a SQL Server Database but we want to share this audio in a website. The website need to be able to play the audio in Flash. Does this make sense? I've seen some libraries out there but the Services and Environment are running on Windows so the conversion may be need to be on that environment.
Thanks,

The .cda files you see on the CD are a red herring. Bet you any money you're using Windows. :-)
Besides that, this question has absolutely nothing to do with Collections.

I have audio books as mp3 files. They will not play on our Ipad. Is there a conversion I need to do?

We have audio books that are converted to mp3 files. They will not play on our 2-year old Ipad. What can I do to make them compatible?
Les

Hi - what I neglected to include in the question is that the book was uploaded on Google Drive. It sounds like I will need to make the book a playlist and upload it.
Thank you for the response.
Les

Conversion of UNKNOWN files to mp3 or other readable format

After recording and saving my music to the desktop, I'm not able to open the files after storing them on a thumb drive. Also, if I email the files to myself, they won't open due to being UNKNOWN. I know there has to be something out there to fix this problem........HELP!

Hi, BC -
If the thumb drive is formatted as a PC (not Mac) volume, that could cause the problem. OS 9 uses File Type and Creator codes embedded in a file in order to determine which app to use to open the file (Creator code) and how the app should process it (Type code). All too often when a file is saved to a volume formatted as a PC volume, those codes are stripped off of the file.
Much of the time the result is an inconvenience - although the file won't open when double-clicked (because OS 9 can't idenitfy what it is), it will usually open when dropped onto the icon of an appropriate program. In this case, try dropping one of the files (or a copy of one - that's safer) onto the icon of QuickTime Player. If it opens and plays okay, if you have QT Pro then you may be able to use the Save As or Export function in QT Player's File menu to get an MP3 or .mov of it.
You can also try adding the File Type and Creator codes to the file. To do that, download the OS 9 version of FileBuddy. Drop a copy of one of the files onto FileBuddy's icon; a window showing a number of file characteristics will open. In the bottom center are two boxes, one labelled Type and the other labelled Creator. In the Type box enter Mp3 - note that there is a fourth character, a space, after the "3". In the Creator box enter TVOD. Save the window, and you should exit to the desktop. The file should now display a QT icon, and, if the changes worked, when you double-click it it should run as an Mp3 in QT Player.
Note - all File Type and Creator codes are case-sensitive; that is, attention must be paid to upper and lower case for each character. Also, all such codes are exactly 4 characters long, hence the need to add the space after the 3 in the Type code.
With FileBuddy you can easily create a droplet, a mini-app with a single purpose. In this case, after adding the codes but before clicking the Save button in FB's window, click the icon that looks like a water drop near the top center of its window. Follow the prompts to create a droplet. Place the droplet in a convenient place; any files dropped onto it will have their codes changed to the ones you entered. If you want to be able to process a folderful of files at a time, double-click the droplet, click the Configure button, then checkmark the "Modify items inside folders" item. Caution - once that is done, all files (regardless of what they may have been) which are in a folder dropped onto the droplet will have their codes changed to that of a QT Mp3 file.

Conversion of .m4p files to .mp3 or .wma format

I have purchased and downloaded many songs from iTune the intent of being able to manage with the Windows Media Player or loading to an mp3 player. Can someone please advise me how I can achieve these objectives??

If you have purchased the protected AAC (,m4p) files, the only thing you can do is burn them to an audio CD. If you purchase the iTunes Plus files which have no protection, their format can be changed to mp3. If you really need mp3 files, you might want to take a look at amazon.com's download service, they sell unprotected mp3 files at a higher bitrate.

Automating conversion of audio files to mp3

I often use itunes to convert aif files to mp3.. What I would like to do is to automate the process. Is there any way to get itunes to check a folder and convert all files in it to mp3 files?

I often use itunes to convert aif files to mp3..
What I would like to do is to automate the process.
Is there any way to get itunes to check a folder
and convert all files in it to mp3 files?
Nope, iTunes does not "watch" folders at all.

NOKIA MUSIC MANGER ON N95 MP3 FILES CORRUPTED?

I CONVERTED YOUTUBE MUSIC TO MP3, I CAN LISTEN TO THE MUSIC ON MY LAPTOP, BUT WHEN I TRYED SCANING MUSIC FROM LAPTOP TO PHONE, ALL THE MP3 FILES SCANNED BUT SHOWING MB SIZE E.G (4.2MB) BUT NO LENGTH COMES AS (00.00) & WHEN I PLAY DOSNT PLAY ON THE STATEUS SAY'S CORRUPTED. IM USEING NOKIA MUSIC MANGER ON N95
PLEASE HELP.. DNT KNOW WHAT IM DOING WRONG?. : (

Actually there's no problem at all with your PC suite. You only have to configure it properly. 1st go to options then settings. Go to "Location of My Collection" and browse the folder you want your m4a to be saved. After that, go to "Conversion" tab and choose m4a/48kbps (cool!) and "Convert automatically" . After this, scan the mp3, wma, etc.. and then convert on the "File" option. The m4a songs that you have converted will go to the folder you selected or browsed on the "Location of My Collection".. Hope this helps. I have a 512mb ext mem and have around 350 m4a songs for this. Cool!

ITunes M4A vs Amazon MP3, ripping in iTunes, cloud services

Sorry to ask 3 different questions in 1 thread, but they're all kind of related..
1) I've been struggling for a while to decide which service to use for digital music. Until recently, I always bought physical CDs and ripped them to my computer at 320Kbps. Then, Amazon started to attract me with all of the deals they have and free credits, not to mention the Cloud player. So I started buying from Amazon. I also had some iTunes credit, which I used and was surprised to find quite a difference in quality. Both are 256Kbps, but Amazon uses MP3, while iTunes apparently uses AAC M4A files. The thing that stands out to me is that the audio is louder and clearer.
Has anybody else noticed this? Everywhere I look online people say there's no difference in the two, but I swear there is. If you download the same song from Amazon and iTunes then listen to them back to back at the same volume, you should notice the difference. Preferable some kind of rock song with louder music where it may be a big harder to make out the lyrics. It's not so much "quality", like the MP3s sound "bad" compared to them, or are missing parts of the audio. It's just that the M4A files are louder and seemingly clearer, making it easier to understand lyrics. It's different than just turning up the volume, the words really stand out more in an M4A file.
So is it just me, or is AAC really that much better than MP3? The 256kbps M4As from iTunes even sound better than the 320kbps MP3s I've always ripped from my CDs via Windows Media Player. I've not, however, compared to the 320kbps MP3s from Google Play, maybe I will try that sometime.
2) Assuming that it's better, that means I need to re-rip my entire CD collection. Will ripping within iTunes to M4A 256kbps give me the same quality as if I bought the file from iTunes and downloaded the file? Also, it looks like you can rip all the way up to 320kbps. Is it even worth it with AAC files, or will I likely not notice a difference over 256kbps?
3) Finally, cloud services. This is the one that has me the most confused. I have 2 goals really: #1, be able to listen to all of my music on my work computer in addition to my home computer and #2, have access to all of my music in some cloud service to access on my Android phone and Android tablet. I have 3 main services to chose from, Amazon, Google, and Apple, each with pros and cons.
Amazon
Pros - lower prices, lots of sales and free credits, all MP3s purchased there are automatically added to my Amazon Cloud, as well as any albums that have the "AutoRip" feature, Amazon Cloud Player seems sufficient both on my desktop and mobile devices.
Cons - lowest audio quality out of all services, can only store 250 personal songs for free, $25/year to upgrade to 250,000 songs
Google
Pros - lower prices than iTunes and sales, but not sure if they're as good as Amazon, all MP3s purchased there are automatically added to my play library
Cons - the desktop web client and mobile app aren't very good, IMO. You don't have much choice over how to view/organize the music. Amazon Cloud player seems better in every way.
iTunes
Pros - best audio quality, iTunes Match for $25/year to have my entire iTunes library in iCloud, including songs not purchased from iTunes (no size/# limit that I'm aware of), iTunes desktop app works fairly well and could be installed on my work computer and play my entire library with iTunes Match
Cons - highest prices, no client for Android devices, iTunes Match costs $25/year
(if I left off any pros/cons, please point them out and I'll add them to the list)
So here's my predicament: I want to start ripping all of my CDs and making all of my digital purchases in iTunes, mostly because of the superior audio quality. But, doing it this way I'll have no good cloud option for my phone and tablet. I could pay for the Amazon Cloud Pro to be able to upload my entire library there, but I would lose the quality of most files (they would match the files with their versions). I could upload my library to Google Play, but I would lose the quality there as well AND I hate their web client and mobile app.
Alternately, I could start purchasing all of my stuff from Amazon. Then, I could pay for iTunes Match to upgrade all of my songs to the better quality files, but I still couldn't use it for cloud-purposes, and it seems the only way to get the files onto your computer is to delete the source file then download it from the iCloud, but a lot of people are saying that's risky.
So, I just don't know what to do. Is there something I'm missing here that would offer me a better solution? I wish Amazon would just start offering better quality audio files, that would solve everything.
Note: I'm aware I could just store my music ON my Android phone and tablet, but 1) that would take a lot of manual work and upkeep and 2) I wouldn't have enough space on my tablet for my entire library (or on the phone without buying a 32GB microSDHC card). So, I really don't want to go that route.

AAC is a more modern codec than MP3 and thanks to advances is able to be more efficient at compressing audio than MP3. This means that at the same bit rate e.g. 256Kbps AAC will retain more of the original quality than MP3 at the same bit rate. Most of the articles I have seen say that roughly a 256Kbps AAC file would be equivalent in quality to a 320Kbps MP3 file meaning the AAC file is up to 25% more efficient.
You could if you wish rip CDs at 320Kbps AAC and that in theory would sound even better compared to a 320Kbps MP3 file. However for most people listening on a portable media player (aka. iPod) with standard earphones you would not be able to tell. In a home playing through your HiFi speakers then you might be able to tell the difference.
By the way, it is now possible to rip all your CDs in Apple Lossless format meaning it is exactly the same quality as the original CD, and still have iTunes automatically convert to AAC when copying to your iPod/iPhone. This way you get full CD quality in your home, but use a smaller slightly lower quality file on your iPod/iPhone.

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