WMA formated songs in itunes??

does anyone know if there is a plugin for itunes where I can import a WMA file and have it converted like you can do on windows. any time I get a wma song I have to put on my windows partition to convert it and and then switch it back. I don't really want just program for converting thats kind of a nusence. so... any one know of any plugins?

use Switch, its free and works well...
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I get a message the songs are in wma format and iTunes will convert them to AAC format - do I select Convert or Skip. I ripped new CDs I bought using Windows Media Player and they are saved on my C drive. I have done this before but cannot do it now.

If you want to play them in iTunes, choose "Convert." This will allow iTunes to create new AAC versions and add those new versions to your iTunes library.
The original WMA files will still be in the folder(s) wherever they currently are. iTunes will ignore the WMAs once it has the converted versions. It is then up to you if you wish to keep or delete your WMA origninals.

I pay to get music from Kazaa which uses a WMA format, when I try to add it to my Itunes it says that the songs is from a WMA format and Itunes uses AAC format, how can I get this music to my Itunes to put on my I-pod/

I pay to get music from Kazaa which uses a WMA format, when I try to add it to my Itunes it says that the songs is from a WMA format and Itunes uses AAC format, how can I get this music to my Itunes to put on my I-pod/

By converting the WMA files to AAC formatted files.

WMA formats, How do I import into iTunes?

Hi There, This is my first time here...
I purchased a new CD and wanted to add it to my library, but I couldn't. So I asked their "tech support".
I have cut and pasted their response.
My questions: How do I copy the songs to iTunes?
and in the last para of the response, they make it sound like Apple is the hold up for making this process easier, is that true? is there an easy fix for this?
THE EMAIL BEGINS HERE......Thanks
Hello Tangela,
Thank you for contacting us. We appreciate your purchase of the Anthony Hamilton CD and will be happy to assist you with the music transfer.
Please follow the instructions below in order to move your content into iTunes and onto an iPod:
If you have a Mac computer you can copy the songs using your iTunes Player as you would normally do.
If you have a PC place the CD into your computer and allow the CD to automatically start. If the CD does not automatically start, open your Windows Explorer, locate the drive letter for your CD drive and double-click on the LaunchCD.exe file located on your CD.
Once the application has been launched and the End User License Agreement has been accepted, you can click the Copy Songs button on the top menu.
Follow the instructions to copy the secure Windows Media Files (WMA) to your PC. Make a note of where you are copying the songs to, you will need to get to these secure Windows Media Files in the next steps.
Once the WMA files are on your PC you can open and listen to the songs with Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher. You may also play them in any compatible player that can play secure Windows Media files, such as MusicMatch, RealPlayer, and Winamp, but it will require that you obtain a license to do so. To obtain this license, from the Welcome Screen of the user interface, click on the link below the album art that says If your music does not play in your preferred player, click here. Follow the instructions to download the alternate license. PLEASE NOTE: This license is only necessary for playing the copied songs in a media player other than iTunes or Windows Media Player. If you are just trying to use iTunes, simply continue with these instructions.
Using Windows Media Player only, you can then burn the songs to a CD. Please note that in order to burn the files, you need to upgrade to or already have Windows Media Player 9 or greater.
Once the CD has been burned, place the copied CD back into your computer and open iTunes. iTunes can now rip the songs as you would a normal CD.
Please note an easier and more acceptable solution requires cooperation from Apple, who we have already reached out to in hopes of addressing this issue. To help speed this effort, we ask that you use the following link to contact Apple and ask them to provide a solution that would easily allow you to move content from protected CDs into iTunes or onto your iPod rather than having to go through the additional steps above. http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html
Please let us know if we can assist you further.
Thank you,
Rob
SunnComm Tech Support
CLIENT: [email protected]
How do I import the songs into iTunes so that I can play them on my iPod?
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To answer your Question in short, yes apple is the hold up. A more detailed answer follows.
THe steps they tell you to do are basic steps for removing protection or "DRM" usually. Most record companys today go all out to protect there copyright songs by putting DRM "Digital Rights Management" or protection on them. Almost all the world (Last I looked it was roughly 95%) of the world uses a PC with Microsoft on it. Since Microsoft installs windows media player on all windows, the record companys have found it most easy to have there songs copied with the program in the "Protected WMA" file format.
Apple and Microsoft are from 2 different worlds and have went against eachother pretty much the whole 20 something years modern computers have been around. Since Microsoft made and owns the WMA format, any company that makes products that will play this format have to pay what they call a "Royalty fee".. Apple isn't about to pay micorsoft for anything like that, as they themselfs are pushing there own royalty fee based format of AAC. Apple does offer in iTUnes to convert UNprotected WMAs.
The steps they gave you to do (as they didn't mention to you cuz they don't want you to know) is steps for actually "Taking off" or "Removing" the protection off the song. the industry has yet to figure out how to keep protection on digital songs when its being burned to a CD. So when its burned to the CD and the protection is off, now iTUnes has full access to the music

How can I tell iTunes to NOT convert certain files from wma format?

I just got an iPod classic, and downloaded iTunes and it automatically started adding all my music. I have almost 5000 songs that are in wma format, and it started converting them all. Then after it got almost 2000 songs finished, it just stopped. For no reason. So I tried to continue it, and apparently there is no way to just continue where it stopped. It started over at the beginning and is now re-converting all the files it already converted.
It took over 24 hours to convert those first 2000 files. It seems completely unnecessary that it should have to re-convert them all over again.
Is there any way that I can tell it NOT to convert those specific files? I figured that you should be able to right-click the file and say "DO NOT CONVERT" or something along those lines, but that is not an option.
The only other way I've been able to figure out that I could do this is to manually add only the files that it didn't convert last time. But that is over 3000 files, and they are not in the same order on my hard drive that they are on in iTunes so I would never be able to figure out what files were done and what files were not done.
There HAS to be a way to just highlight certain files and tell iTunes NOT to convert them. Hasn't there?
Someone please help me. This is really irritating, and I do not feel like waiting for another 3 days for this to finish. I have other things I need to do on my computer, and it seems that while iTunes is converting, it is making everything else very slow.
Thank you.

I know they need to be converted, but the problem is, 2000 of the 5000 have already been converted. now it's trying to convert them again. but there is no reason for that. i want to know how to convert the other files that weren't converted yet, without having to re-convert the ones that were already done.
I would move the ones that were done to a separate folder, but I don't know exactly what ones were done. In iTunes, they are the first 2000 or so in the list, but on my hard drive they are not in the same order.
Does anyone else know if there's a way to do this?

Converting iTunes music to MP3 and/or WMA format

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gruntvet wrote:
Hey Ed2345;
Followed the instructions to convert songs to MP3. Quite cumbersome. You would think Apple would have detailed instructions on how to keep the different formated songs separated, filed or whatever would be best to manage them. Not sure if I need to create a separate playlist for them or library and how? I tried to export a playlist of 16 converted songs to an SDHC card. Thought I did but when I put it into the car stereo, nothing happens! Wow, I may as well give up. Would you be so kind as to possibly help? Your time and efforts appreciated. Joe
Gruntvet,
After the conversions have completed, put your Music library in Songs view, and sort by "Date Added." All of your newly created MP3s will be together at the top.
From there, you can just drag them to the SD card.

I purchased songs from Itunes store and I would like to record a CD to my parents with specific songs but when introduce the cd a message appears that the songs are not in MP3 format, how could I convert them?

I purchased songs from Itunes store and I would like to record a CD to my parents with specific songs but when introduce the cd a message appears that the songs are not in MP3 format, how could I convert them?

Hello
In itunes...preferences you can change the setting to import songs instead of mp4 to mp3. Afer changing this setting, right click to the songs and than you are able to convert to mp3. ths's it

I downloaded several cds to my external hard drive in .mp3 format. Later, I copied them to iTunes. The songs only play when the external hard drive is plugged in. I tried to load the songs from iTunes to my iPhone and the songs don't play.

I downloaded several cds to my external hard drive in .mp3 format. Later, I copied them to iTunes. The songs only play when the external hard drive is plugged in. I tried to load the songs from iTunes to my iPhone and the songs don't play. I thought iTunes allowed me to transfer music to my iPhone and play it. What am I doing wrong?

Hi skoorb1,
When adding music to iTunes, you can set it to either make a local copy of the file, or simply point to the original location of the file (for example, on an external hard drive). If it is set to do the latter, it will not be able to play or transfer those files when the external hard drive is not plugged in. You may find the following article helpful:
iTunes: About the Add to Library, Import, and Convert functions
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1347
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Just bought my 1st mac. I have some wma format music files which wo'nt play on i tunes. How best to convert these files so they will play on iTunes?

just bought my 1st mac. I have some wma format music files which wo'nt play on i tunes. How best to convert these files so they will play on iTunes? Any suggestions much appreciated

Try using VLC Media Player 2.0.6. EasyWMA 3.3.5 or Music Converter 1.5.1 should be able to convert them to .mp3.

TS3642 It is really unacceptable that I cannot transfer my garageband format songs from iPad to iTunes for windows and then add them to my new iPad. Any ideas?

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3642 tells me that this is not possible because garageband format songs are saved as folders.
I just want to transfer songs from one iPad to another. Why does Apple make things so hard?

Perhaps turingtest2's fix works for you to transfer your project to iTunes for Windows, see:
Re: Import a proyect from garage band to ipad
But if you want to transfer between two iPads, you could use iCloud to transfer directly between the devices, if the iPads support iCloud and you are using the same Apple ID on both iPads.
If you save the project (or better a duplicate of the project) to iCloud, you will be able to import it on the second iPad from the cloud.
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Sounds like you might know an answer. I want to import/store my cd music ONCE - preferably in itunes for the playlist ability. But when I import in iTunes from CD, I can only create audio CD. iTunes does not allow me to create an mp3 cd. I don't want to import/copy twice in two formats so I can create either audio CD or mp3 cd. With a windows based non iTunes program, I could do this easily - import once; create cd's in different output formats. The only problem was I didn't have the nice playlist capability. Am I wrong thinking iTunes is supposed to make it EASIER to import, store, and rearrange my collection?

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WMA format and iTunes

Greetings: I am trying to download audiobooks from the Riverside County Librrary. The Help person sent this to me. Quote "Note: You cannot listen to an eAudiobook in protected WMA format in iTunes."unquote. I have iTumes 10.1. If iTunes can;t open WMA Format is there anything out there that can for an iMac? I have an Intel 2.4 core 2 duo Moc OS 10.6.4. What can you Tell me about this?
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/windows-media-player/wmcompo nents

How is a directory (folder) formatted to allow iTunes to correctly import ripped songs from my HD?

I have ripped files and have examined them with a 'kd3' program and see some of the formatting. However when I ask iTunes to import them, I get a partial or non existent result. Many of my file names are like " 01 - Friend of Mine.mp3". There is no identification of the artist, although the name of the directory is the ripped CD's name. Many I have of multiple entries, so there is like "Blondie" then in that directory is each of the owned CD's (or albums) that I have ripped. I would hope it could figure out it was a "Blondie" and what each album was, but, alas, no such luck. I can't seem to find anything that identifies what exactly the directory should look like, or if I need a flat file with 'kd3' type entries and separate music files (as identified in the flat file?)
Although this seems simple, I have struggled many hours, even asking and receiving information. Somehow I'm just missing the boat...
Thanks
Jack

iTunes organizes its media files and folders based on the metadata ("properties" or "tags") within the music files that you add to its library. File names are irrelevant. You can see the metadata in Windows Explorer by right-clicking on one of your MP3 files, select Properties and then the Details tab. You shoud see something like this:
If some or all of the properties are missing or incorrect you have two choices:
Correct the metadata in the MP3 files before you import into iTunes - you can do this (albeit inefficiently) in Windows Explorer, or using any 3rd party application that can read, modify and update this information. I use Foobar2000 for this, but there are many other alternative solutions available.
Import the songs into iTunes and correct the metadata there (right-click > Get Info on one or more selected songs/albums).
When you have these options enabled in iTunes (Edit > Preferences > Advanced):
iTunes will automatically maintain its file and folder structures so that all songs are located in C:\Users\username\Music\iTunes Media\Music\artist_name\album_name and files are named either track_number song_title (for single disc albums) or disc_number-track number song_title (for multi-disc albums).
If you use method (1) above iTunes will not pick up any changes until you play the songs. In general, once you've imported anything into iTunes its much better to use iTunes rather than any other method to update metadata, and you should never try to rename or move files once they've been added to your library - this will result in broken links ... next to tracks that then won't play or sync to iDevices.

A friend gave me a a number of playlists in a wma format. Can't import into itunes library or convert. Any suggestions?

A friend gave me a a number of playlists in a wma format. Can't import into itunes library or convert. Any suggestions?

Switch (free basic version) - http://www.nch.com.au/switch/index.html - I'm not sure if this will do WMA
All2MP3 - http://download.cnet.com/All2MP3/3000-2140_4-190407.html - mixed success with WMA
Flip4mac - need the intermediate payware version which lets you convert. Use with Quicktime player.Flip4Mac - http://dynamic.telestream.net/downloads/download-flip4macwmv.asp?prodid=flip4mac wmv - The free version will let Quicktime play but not convert Windows Media files.
After installation a new Flip4Mac pane will appear in System Preferences. Make sure you set the boxes to ensure that it will play WMV files in Quicktime.

WMA formated songs in itunes??

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