My Archos 604 supports WMA, proteted WMA, WAV, mp3 and windows media supported audio files. It wont play songs from iTunes. I own a significant number of itunes songs. Would converting them to AAC files in itunes first be the way? Please help!
2007-03-22 04:34:20 · 3 answers · asked by Pupmeister 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Music & Music Players
Well, first of all, you're not really SUPPOSED to do that, sine that's the reason for the encryption. However, it's still possible to do, at some loss of quality, and some time and effort on your part.
First, drag all of your purchased music into a playlist, and then burn that playlist to audio CDs. Once that's finished, rip them back from the disc into MP3 format. The down side to this, is that there's some quality loss (though you probably won't notice), and that all the track information will be gone. You will have to manually rename all the songs, artists, and albums, and get the album art over again, and all your play data will be gone from them as well.
Good luck.
2007-03-22 04:42:53 · answer #1 · answered by Kevin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would be illegal. It would involve digitally stripping the copyright protection layer from the file - Apple frowns on that.
But hey - I know what you mean. I'm not sure if the software is out there anymore, but look around for something called JHymn (and just read the documentation).
Before I found the beauty of the Newsgroups and Limewire, that software worked like a champ.
But seriously - $1/song is too much (imo).
Hope that helps.
2007-03-22 11:42:58 · answer #2 · answered by Rob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is impossible to do. I agree with Kevin and Rob on this one. Apple deliberately protected their music that way stuff like this wouldnot happen.
2007-03-22 12:36:16 · answer #3 · answered by Computer Geek 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋