From: Fery Giron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi, i have bought about 30 iTunes, and all of them are in my iMac, there is were i listen to them, i have been trying to download them to my palm Tungsten E, with no success, in iTunes i go to preferences, select mp3, select the songs, and burn them, they all burn as .m4p, how can i turn them to mp3's??? is getting an iPod a must to listen to my purchased songs?????
No, you do not have to purchase an iPod to enjoy your music -- but it's certainly a good idea! :)
The first thing you should do is find out if there are any AAC song players for the Palm. I would imagine not yet, so here's the alternate solution:
There is a reason your purchased music from the iTunes Music Store are "protected AAC" files and not MP3 files. It is due to the copying restrictions placed on the files by Apple (plus the AAC format sounds better). The restrictions are really VERY light (and are what make the iTunes Music Store possible AT ALL, let's not forget), but you have run into the one *true* limitation: you cannot easily make MP3s of the purchased files.
However, there is a modest workaround that will allow you to enjoy your music on your Palm.
1. Burn a *regular* audio CD of your purchased iTunes songs. NOT MP3 FORMAT, since that won't work anyway.
(this is something EVERYONE should be doing with their purchased iTunes songs anyway, since it is YOUR responsibility to back up your purchases!)
2. Once the audio CD is burned, you can re-import the songs back into iTunes as regular MP3 files with no restrictions whatsoever. I would strongly encourage you to NOT delete the original purchased files -- the process of converting them into MP3s will have degraded the sound quality very slightly in the MP3 version, so you want to hold on to your best-sounding version, which is the original AAC file
At that point, you should be able to transfer them to your Palm in whatever way you would any other music files.
Where can i find info on this subject, and or shearing music on different devises????
The iTunes Music Store's files are designed to be easily transportable to any device OTHER than MP3-only players. The best portable device on which to play iTunes Music Store files are either a "regular" portable CD player, since iTMS files can be burned to regular audio CDs just fine, or an iPod, since no conversion or burning of any kind is required (another good reason to buy an iPod -- see the cross-marketing forces at work?).
Since you want to transfer your songs to a device that only accepts MP3 files, you are running into the one onerous restriction of iTMS files, but although you probably find this annoying, bear in mind that EVERY legal download music store except one sells protected audio files, and Apple's iTMS is actually the LEAST restrictive and easiest to use/transfer!
I hope that answers your questions.
_Chas_
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