itunes again, converting songs?

malcolm

So my ex girlfriend is going to give me a bunch of music but it's all .m4p songs, how do you guys convert these to .mp3?

Nilium

Well, the only way at the moment that doesn't involve a bunch of weird stuff (e.g., re-recording them via speaker->line in and such other stuff) is to burn'em to a CD and then rip'em as MP3s. If you have a CD-RW, no problems there I'd guess. Otherwise, you might want to go out and buy one.

Lastly, if you do use iTunes, you can have her play one and authorize your machine with her account.

hawken

yeah just play them on itunes / quicktime or put them on an ipod. It's hardly rocket science.

Also you can setup itunes to rip as mp3. Where did she get the files originally? If she bought them from itunes, you are talking about piracy Which isn't welcomed on polycount.

adam

lol, its not? :P

hawken

no it's embraced!

skankerzero

xilisoft audio converter should be able to convert from mp4 to mp3.

malcolm

Ah right, I forgot to mention we tried the burn to cd bs but that names all the songs track 01-12 so you lose all the useful naming info. Is there a way around this I don't mind wasting the cd's as long as I get the song names. I should also mention she has a mac and I have a pc.

Nilium

No, not really, at least not to my knowledge. I'd just bite the bullet and correct the ID3 tags once you rip them.

skankerzero

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xilisoft audio converter should be able to convert from mp4 to mp3.

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did you not try this?

malcolm

Yeah it only does mp4 to mp3, I need m4p to mp3. There is a ghetto round about whey of going from m4p to mp4 to mp3 but it's a lot of work, it would probably take less time to just rename the files by hand.

Jeff Parrott

I've found the easiest way is to just burn cds. It's really time consuming though.

skankerzero

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Yeah it only does mp4 to mp3, I need m4p to mp3. There is a ghetto round about whey of going from m4p to mp4 to mp3 but it's a lot of work, it would probably take less time to just rename the files by hand.

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oh, right right, my bad.

Actually, the way you said is the way I do it. I use 2 programs. It's not that time consuming.