Putting cd's onto itunes in mp3 or wma?
Putting cd's onto itunes in mp3 or wma?
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skinner05

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3,352 posts

222 months

Friday 2nd January 2009
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Any idea how to do this? At present, any cd's i put onto itunes are in AAC format and i need to have them as mp3 or wma. Do i need some converting software or is that just when converting songs bought from itunes?

thanks

tinman0

18,231 posts

269 months

Friday 2nd January 2009
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skinner05 said:
Any idea how to do this? At present, any cd's i put onto itunes are in AAC format and i need to have them as mp3 or wma. Do i need some converting software or is that just when converting songs bought from itunes?

thanks
there's a preference in iTunes that allows you to swap to mp3 I believe.

Scraggles

7,619 posts

253 months

Friday 2nd January 2009
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mp3 are more easily played than wma

skinner05

Original Poster:

3,352 posts

222 months

Friday 2nd January 2009
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Cheers

Gaspode

4,167 posts

225 months

Friday 2nd January 2009
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In iTunes, select Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Importing and click the drop-down next to "Import Using".

You can select MP3, but there's no choice for WMA. Personally, I think AAC-encoded music sounds better than MP3, but you can play MP3s on anything whereas of course you need an iPod or iTunes to play AAC.


Blue Meanie

73,668 posts

284 months

Saturday 3rd January 2009
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If you have an iPod, then use AAC, otherwise just plonk it as Mp3 as per the preference panel as someone mentioned.