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13-11-2004, 12:54
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Question about iPod and MP3
From what I've read, iPods can only store and play music in Apple's AAC format. Does this mean you can only download tracks from iTunes?
Can tracks downloaded from other sources (I mean the free sites, KaZaa, etc) be converted to AAC for use on the iPod ? |
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13-11-2004, 14:24
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the software that comes with the ipod converts songs into AAC, from my experience it works with everthing.
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13-11-2004, 20:20
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Originally Posted by eric_the_red
From what I've read, iPods can only store and play music in Apple's AAC format. Does this mean you can only download tracks from iTunes?
Can tracks downloaded from other sources (I mean the free sites, KaZaa, etc) be converted to AAC for use on the iPod ? |
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13-11-2004, 21:25
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Can tracks downloaded from other sources (I mean the free sites, KaZaa, etc) be converted to AAC for use on the iPod ?
iPod's are quite happy to playback mp3, wav, aac, aiff and apple lossless encoded recordings.. When I look in iTunes at a file that I converted from a CD to apple lossless I can see that the popup menu has an option on it to "Convert to MP3". This conversion option varies depending on what you have set in the options as to the default import format - so if it's set to Apple Lossless then the menu option says "Convert to apple lossless" on it.
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15-11-2004, 10:52
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oh. i thought they only played AAC? (but you can easily convert existing mp3 etc to AAC in iTunes?)
so you can download music from itunes, and put it on your ipod, or you can convert unprotected mp3s (eg from your cds or from kazzaa) to AAC, and put them on your iPod. the only area where you might run into trouble, is if you download an mp3 from another legal site like napster, which would probably be protected, and you wouldn't be able to convert to AAC to get on your iPod. Iain |
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15-11-2004, 11:46
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oh. i thought they only played AAC? (but you can easily convert existing mp3 etc to AAC in iTunes?)
so you can download music from itunes, and put it on your ipod, or you can convert unprotected mp3s (eg from your cds or from kazzaa) to AAC, and put them on your iPod. the only area where you might run into trouble, is if you download an mp3 from another legal site like napster, which would probably be protected, and you wouldn't be able to convert to AAC to get on your iPod. Iain I really, REALLY, wouldn't bother converting your MP3's to AAC as you'd be converting from one already compressed format to another compressed format and it'll sound awful. Better to re-rip from CD if you can, or just leave as MP3 - the iPod will be able to play them. |
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15-11-2004, 11:53
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Protected WMA music from the legal download sites won't work on an iPod, or most of the decent MP3 players on the market (the iriver ihp-120 for example).
The best place to buy music is probably on CD from CD-WOW or Amazon and rip it yourself. Screw those idiots in the record industry, legal music downloads are awful. |
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15-11-2004, 11:56
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i didn't not understand it, i just didn't realise it.
Iain 
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