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chrissie100
04-11-2005, 04:34 AM
I am trying to convert some songs i bought off i-tunes into mp3, the itune songs come up as mp4's and are protected

I have tried using a video cleaner but it says it doesn't recongize the songs.
I have also tried burining a cd with the songs on from i-tunes but the cd won't play.

Any ideas on what i could do and if it is possible to change protected i-tunes to mp3
LtData
04-11-2005, 06:56 AM
When you burned the CD, did you burn an AudioCD or a data CD? If you burned an Audio CD, it should play just fine. Double-check what type of CD you burned it as.
chrissie100
04-16-2005, 01:40 PM
i burned it as an audio cd and it was burned on to a cd-r audio cd
LtData
04-17-2005, 12:27 AM
Can you listen to the songs in iTunes? If so, you can try either JHymn (google for the link) or Auxiliary Input to convert the songs. Aux Input instructions here: http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?p=34783
chrissie100
04-23-2005, 07:18 AM
no i can't see to listen to the songs they seem to be on the cd but not playing on anything.
chrissie100
05-05-2005, 04:38 PM
ok thanks i'll try them
ChristinaS
05-05-2005, 04:58 PM
If you can't play them you cannot convert them either.
LtData
05-05-2005, 05:02 PM
Note that my intructions regarding JHymn and Aux. Input are for the original m4p files as your CD is unreadable.
chrissie100
05-07-2005, 05:06 PM
ok, i've just got rid of the cd because it appears to have nothing on it and i have tried copying the songs on again ut they won' t copy and it also says the cd has been damaged



i have encoded the protected i tunes songs i bought, by using J hymn but i can't seem to convert them to mp3's


Any ideas on what i should do?
LtData
05-07-2005, 05:44 PM
JHymn just makes mp4 files from your protected m4p files. Can you convert the now-unprotected mp4 files?
chrissie100
05-15-2005, 06:26 AM
ok Jhymn had unprotected the tunes for me but
now i can't convert them from mp4 to mp3

any ideas on what i can use?
LtData
05-15-2005, 08:47 AM
You have a mp4 decoder installed, right? Can you play the resulting unprotected files?
chrissie100
05-29-2005, 09:47 AM
no i don't, i think i did have a decoder but it got deleted.

what mp4 decoder cpuld i use?

and are mp4 and mpeg's the same?
ChristinaS
05-29-2005, 10:04 AM
Look in Codec Central for the codec.
LtData
05-29-2005, 11:18 AM
Or get the mp4 codec from the beta section of this forum.
And mp4 and mpeg files are different. mp4 is MPEG-4, a different standard from normal .mpeg files which are normally either MPEG-1 or MPEG-2.