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Music Library Conversion

climberman

climberman

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Have read many different observations on the I Beats headphones but I think they are unexpectedly good and on many songs remarkable. I used Double Twist to convert the non-DVR protected songs from my I - Tunes library - worked fine. I have 600 or so DVR protected songs to go......any recommendations??? The programs I have researched on the Internet are 1) too expensive 2) cumbersome and not user friendly 3) time consuming. Guess I could burn em all to discs and reload to I tunes but then we are talking duplicate city......

Any new technology out there ?????? Once I get the rest if those songs onto my Rezound my life will be complete :)
 
Yes, quit using iTunes.

You can try Switch Sound Converter. I've never used it for that, but I believe it will serve the purpose you're looking for. I only buy tunes from Beatport.com and need SSC to convert my live deejay recordings from wav to mp3.
 
If you upload them to the Google Music cloud from iTunes with Google Music Manager, you can stream them from there or "make available offline", which downloads them to your phone/tablet.
 
kierandill said:
If you upload them to the Google Music cloud from iTunes with Google Music Manager, you can stream them from there or "make available offline", which downloads them to your phone/tablet.
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Well.....thanks.....but Google music will not convert the DVR protected songs....this is why I am a hoping for a work around the DVR coding wrapped around the song file by those @$!@?**%# Apple people ..... But thank you muchly anyway !!
 
salling media is what i use syncs striaght from itunes, can sync all or selected playlists. found it when I had my Incredible. makes life simple.
 
jikhead said:
Yes, quit using iTunes.

You can try Switch Sound Converter. I've never used it for that, but I believe it will serve the purpose you're looking for. I only buy tunes from Beatport.com and need SSC to convert my live deejay recordings from wav to mp3.
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Thanks muchly......but.......no success.......it will not open an protected AAC audio file so no can do.......anyother ideas?
 
climberman said:
Well.....thanks.....but Google music will not convert the DVR protected songs....this is why I am a hoping for a work around the DVR coding wrapped around the song file by those @$!@?**%# Apple people ..... But thank you muchly anyway !!
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The only way I have found around itunes DRM is to burn them to disc (as a regular audio cd, not a data cd) then rip them to your computer. Before doing this I could only play them in itunes or on my ipod. After I ripped them, anything that plays those type of files (depends what file type you use when ripping them) will play them. It's a PITA, but it works and gets you away from apple's proprietary bs. Funny considering they were supposed to be doing away with DRM and also supposed to be offering music in higher bitrates than 128kbps like they have always used. Guess they are spending to many resources on litigation.

Your best bet going forward is using Amazon's mp3 store. I have used them and never had any issues with DRMs. They play on anything. Case in point, I have quite a few of them on a microsd card, with that loaded into a usb microsd reader. They play fine on my car stereo with usb input, so no worries.
 
vzwuser76 said:
The only way I have found around itunes DRM is to burn them to disc (as a regular audio cd, not a data cd) then rip them to your computer. Before doing this I could only play them in itunes or on my ipod. After I ripped them, anything that plays those type of files (depends what file type you use when ripping them) will play them. It's a PITA, but it works and gets you away from apple's proprietary bs. Funny considering they were supposed to be doing away with DRM and also supposed to be offering music in higher bitrates than 128kbps like they have always used. Guess they are spending to many resources on litigation.

Your best bet going forward is using Amazon's mp3 store. I have used them and never had any issues with DRMs. They play on anything. Case in point, I have quite a few of them on a microsd card, with that loaded into a usb microsd reader. They play fine on my car stereo with usb input, so no worries.
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Thanks for such a effortful answer.......yea.........this appears to be the only way and as you regretfully said it is a PITA ...... gonna just figure the Big Man upstairs did not want me to have the 600 or so songs on my Rezound as the time it will take to burn and load is far to much .........oh well.......knew this was not solvable easier.....but ...... Thank you thank you for your help
 
I use Aimersoft DRM Media Converter. It'll set you back $35, but it works like a charm. The converter leaves the original media file, but makes a copy in a separate folder with the DRM stripped. It will also convert it to another type of media file at the same time if you need. My only gripe is that it takes heavy computing resources to convert and strip each media file, so depending on your set-up, it may take a while to convert your entire library.

Just copy the contents of the destination folder to your Rezound, and you are good to go. I now have my entire iTunes library on my Rezound, and all songs play perfectly.


Here's a link: Support Center - Aimersoft software
 
vzwuser76 said:
The only way I have found around itunes DRM is to burn them to disc (as a regular audio cd, not a data cd) then rip them to your computer. Before doing this I could only play them in itunes or on my ipod. After I ripped them, anything that plays those type of files (depends what file type you use when ripping them) will play them. It's a PITA, but it works and gets you away from apple's proprietary bs. Funny considering they were supposed to be doing away with DRM and also supposed to be offering music in higher bitrates than 128kbps like they have always used. Guess they are spending to many resources on litigation.

Your best bet going forward is using Amazon's mp3 store. I have used them and never had any issues with DRMs. They play on anything. Case in point, I have quite a few of them on a microsd card, with that loaded into a usb microsd reader. They play fine on my car stereo with usb input, so no worries.
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I read that they were doing away with DRM also. The good news is that in order to help fund more patent litigation, Apple is now charging to upgrade previous 128kbps purchases to 256kbps for only $3.99 per album (at least that's the message I get when I log into the store). Maybe Apple will make DRM free music, along with stripping the DRM out of previously purchased music an extra charge too.:rolleyes:
 
climberman said:
Thanks for such a effortful answer.......yea.........this appears to be the only way and as you regretfully said it is a PITA ...... gonna just figure the Big Man upstairs did not want me to have the 600 or so songs on my Rezound as the time it will take to burn and load is far to much .........oh well.......knew this was not solvable easier.....but ...... Thank you thank you for your help
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You may not have to do anything as it turns out. I copied a song I purchased from itunes into my dropbox and tried to stream it, and it worked fine on the HTC music app. So I downloaded it to my sd card and played it and again it worked fine. I had never tried this on any of my phones before, I only knew that copying it to a flash drive and trying to play it on my car stereo didn't work. Even though the head unit is ipod compatible, on that unit it must only be able to read itunes files from an ipod, not another source.

I'd say try putting some of your itunes content on your phone and see if it works. If you don't have dropbox, you could simply connect your phone to your computer with the usb cable and drag and drop them like you would with any flash drive. I'm glad I tried this, since I never would've tried this otherwise, thanks.:)

PS I don't know what other music apps will play itunes content. I'd bet Doubletwist will, since it's made to sync itunes, but have no idea currently if PowerAmp or Winamp will. And I doubt that any video from itunes will play since you couldn't even burn them to dvd, they were only playable on apple devices (itunes program, ipod, ipad, apple tv, etc.).
 
vzwuser76 said:
You may not have to do anything as it turns out. I copied a song I purchased from itunes into my dropbox and tried to stream it, and it worked fine on the HTC music app. So I downloaded it to my sd card and played it and again it worked fine. I had never tried this on any of my phones before, I only knew that copying it to a flash drive and trying to play it on my car stereo didn't work. Even though the head unit is ipod compatible, on that unit it must only be able to read itunes files from an ipod, not another source.

I'd say try putting some of your itunes content on your phone and see if it works. If you don't have dropbox, you could simply connect your phone to your computer with the usb cable and drag and drop them like you would with any flash drive. I'm glad I tried this, since I never would've tried this otherwise, thanks.:)

PS I don't know what other music apps will play itunes content. I'd bet Doubletwist will, since it's made to sync itunes, but have no idea currently if PowerAmp or Winamp will. And I doubt that any video from itunes will play since you couldn't even burn them to dvd, they were only playable on apple devices (itunes program, ipod, ipad, apple tv, etc.).
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Even though WinAmp will sync with iTunes and import iTunes play lists, I have had no luck getting the music to play without converting the file. WinAmp sees the files but will not play them.
 
OK First...

Give up on the DVR it is what you use to watch video at home.

It is DRM.

I have tons of downloads from the apple store and I have not found a single one that would not play on my Dinc, T-bolt Or Rezound just by putting a copy on the SD Card? Is this DRM Itunes music very old? I have 16 gig of music most of which is from Itunes and have never had a DRM issue?
 
iTunes changed about 2 years ago to DRM free. However if you bought DRM songs you had to stay with DRM or pay to upgrade to DRM free.
 
Yeah, I tried a bunch of differnet converters... they all pretty much suck. (get defects, cutouts in some songs) I ended up using tuneclone ($35) for some and the old reliable... burn to disk and rip.
 
rustyhokie said:
iTunes changed about 2 years ago to DRM free. However if you bought DRM songs you had to stay with DRM or pay to upgrade to DRM free.
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This. And to be fair to Apple, they were against the DRM from the beginning but it was the only way the labels would sell online. They were able to get rid of the DRM when they upped the prices from 99cents to 1.29. To strip the DRM off my music I burned to CD then converted. Now for the most part I buy off of Amazon, because it's usually cheaper. Still use iTunes if there is some good bonus stuff and I don't have any problems syncing them.
 
trojanchick99 said:
This. And to be fair to Apple, they were against the DRM from the beginning but it was the only way the labels would sell online. They were able to get rid of the DRM when they upped the prices from 99cents to 1.29. To strip the DRM off my music I burned to CD then converted. Now for the most part I buy off of Amazon, because it's usually cheaper. Still use iTunes if there is some good bonus stuff and I don't have any problems syncing them.
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And that's what I found out too. The music that I put on was some recent stuff, so I went to put on some of my older stuff and none of the players would recognize them. Luckily I ended up burning most of that to some cds awhile back (when my ipod died so I could still listen to them). I ripped the music off of the cds and works like a dream. So at this point I'd try a bunch of different tracks from different times, and see which ones play and which don't. That should give you a better idea of when itunes went DRM free.

Btw, I also use amazon. Never had any issue playing them on anything that can play an mp3. But like you said, some stuff just isn't available on there and it is on itunes. But I think between Google and Amazon, we should be covered in the future.
 
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