Jerry, Cancel my last request to be walked through the change of format to burn a CD (right now in my prefs menu, when I pull up burn, the only options are audio cd, mp3 & data cd...if I understood your explanation correctly, the mac will do this automatically to AAC? Or does it create disks under the same setting you establish in the import menu (which I have since changed to AAC)? Is there any way to convert music within the library that was imported in one format to another, simply? Cathy
> ---------- > From: Jerry Ethington > Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 12:52 PM > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: Music File Sizes [faked-from] > > >Now this answers the question I sent in the other day, but it > >brought forth a new question. Does it mean that all music I buy > >through iTunes are in AIFF non compressed and that when I make a new > >CD from my iTunes playlist, ( which I think I am allowed 5) will > >that CD then not play on any, some or all CDplayers? Or can I > >manipulate it by changing or setting the encding on mp3's? > >Marta > > Music bought through the iTunes music store is in AAC 128kbps > compressed format. When you burn a CD from such music, iTunes > automatically decompresses it before it burns it out onto the CD. > The CDs can be played on pretty much any player anywhere - all car CD > players, home players, CD Walkman players, everything. > > MP3 CDs are a special case - only some newer players can handle them. > It is a CD with compressed MP3s on it instead of uncompressed music, > so a CD can hold more songs. iTunes can make such a CD for you, but > if your music isn't already stored in MP3 format, you will have to > use the menu to convert your music into MP3 format before you can > burn it on an MP3 CD. Players that can read MP3 CDs are getting more > common, but if your player is more than a year or so old it most > likely can't read MP3 CDs. > > Hope this helps..... > > Jerry > -- > Jerry W. Ethington > 245 Hawkeegan Drive > Frankfort, KY 40601-3912 > (502)223-5489 > (502)682-2607 cellular > jethington at mac.com > > "Quando omni, flunkus moritati." > (When all else fails, play dead.) > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050124/a3a49ab7/attachment.html
