I use windows media player because of the album art feature and I use xpack from Intervideo (add in codec) for $9.95 and it allows windows media player to rip and encode direct to mp3 for you. Been using it for years. ALL my mp3s have album art. I like it. There are better encoders (slower too) but I like the album art.
i actually dl the cdex and installed it but it gave me some freaky errors. i think i will stick with itunes.
That’s funny. I have been using it literally every day for the last couple of months with no problems. Did you get the latest stable version or did you get the beta version? What kind of errors did you get?
They used to let you download the converter for free, but now they charge!
i actually dl the cdex and installed it but it gave me some freaky errors. i think i will stick with itunes.
YOu have to copy your cd to your hard drive first ( i dragged the cd contents and dropped them on to my HD) then run the program, at least thats how i sorted it.
The only annoying thing is that i seem to have to rip each track one at a time and that takes ages? IN winamp you used to be able to select the album and it would convert each track individually on its own.
another silly question for you all from the wabbitt:
i like itunes its a nice program so i want to get that to work for me…. but how can i move my music library? i want it on my d drive not c (space issues on c) but i cant seem to move it to d? how is this posible?
i signed up for itunes and i downloaded a song now i want that song to be in mp3 format how do i do this? it was down loaded as an m4p. i want to convert it so it plays on an mp3 player. is m4p aac?
Apple’s Music store lets you download the songs in AAC format with some copyright protection. The only way to get rid of the protection is to burn an audio CD with iTunes and then re-rip the CD back and convert the individual song files to MP3. iTunes doesn’t convert to MP3 so you’ll need another program to do it. Programs like Real Player and MusicMatch have MP3 encoding abilities.
Rabbit, you just hit the reason I don’t like “legit” download services. You can play an iTunes AAC file on your computer or an iPod. That’s about it. Most of the other services (including one I’m involved in) use WMA files that most of the available higher-end MP3 players can play… but the iPod can’t. On top of that, you can’t copy the file to just any computer you want. If you only have an iPod, iTunes Music Store is great.
drachen i totally understand but i am drop confused. if i dl from itunes in m4p / aac. then burn it to wav then back to mp3 i can play it anywhere and copy it till my hearts content?
also whats the best “legit” music service out there where i can dl the mp3s to a player without all this conversion bs.
If by “burn it to wav” you mean “burn it to CD”, yes, you can do whatever you want with it (assuming you observe US copyright law). The only major service I know of that serves MP3 format directly is eMusic . If you’re curious, they have a free trial offer. They tend to go more for the indy stuff than the other services. Here is a surprisingly serious review of several digital music stores by Brian Biggs of BBSpot.com.
Honestly, most of the stores allow you to burn the file to burn protected files to CD, as gr00vy mentioned above, and then rip it to MP3 like a normal CD (although some services limit the number of times files can be burnt). The only real down side to that is the cost of using up the CD-R (I suppose you can consider the CD-R part of the cost of buying the music) and the fact that you will lose some quality ripping back from CD. It’s not enough for most people to notice, though. If you can listen to a 128kbps MP3 without complaint, you won’t notice the quality degredation.
You can use a CD-RW so you don’t waste a CD-R if thats a concern.
Anyone try that Russian site with the $0.03 downloads for songs?
I know its prob. not legal in the states, but I doubt the RIAA will sue you…they’d loose in court…common, you tried to pay for it…
[quote author=“tifosiv122”]Anyone try that Russian site with the $0.03 downloads for songs?
I know its prob. not legal in the states, but I doubt the RIAA will sue you…they’d loose in court…common, you tried to pay for it…
They wouldn’t go after you, they would go after the guys that sold it to you. It’s not like the RIAA or any other group goes after the people who purchased CDs sold after a contract expires or is terminated. If you are a record label and license out a track for one compilation CD and the other comany goes out and uses it for a second comp, you can legally demand that they stop making the CD, destroy their inventory and recall the CD from stores. You’re not going to hunt down the people that bought the CD and demand they hand them in. Note also that the RIAA isn’t going after downloaders, it’s going after the people that share them.
