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any way to covert AAC to MP3?

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glen

Lifer
My roomate has some ACC songs he baught and downloaded with iTunes and he wants to put them on his Rio Nitrous.
Can it be done?
Does he need to convert them to mp3 first?
 
The only problem is that converting between a lossless to a lossless format, is there will be an inherent loss of quality. The way to do it with the least quality loss would be to burn the aac to a CD, and then re-encode. There will still be a loss of quality though.
 
lol... I'm still kinda surprised people will pay $0.99 for a song thats not even mp3. Kinda reminds me of my friend, went over to his house and saw he had the new napster installed, checked and he had bought 15 SONGS, he wanted me to help him put them on his mp3 player (wma wasn't compatible). I was in shock, cause he spent $15 on songs he can't even use except on his computer and plus I had every single song he bought in mp3 format, I could have easily put them on his mp3 player had he brought it over 😛
 
Don't worry about loss of quality, the difference is negligible and most people wouldn't tell the difference.
 
Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
lol... I'm still kinda surprised people will pay $0.99 for a song thats not even mp3. Kinda reminds me of my friend, went over to his house and saw he had the new napster installed, checked and he had bought 15 SONGS, he wanted me to help him put them on his mp3 player (wma wasn't compatible). I was in shock, cause he spent $15 on songs he can't even use except on his computer and plus I had every single song he bought in mp3 format, I could have easily put them on his mp3 player had he brought it over 😛
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Well, iTunes was meant to enhance iPod sales. So iTunes and the iPod worked hand in hand. The AAC files from iTunes work perfectly with the companion player the iPod.

Originally posted by: konichiwa
search over on slashdot (or here I guess too) for QTFairuse
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QTFairUse is a program creating by DVD-Jon. This program will take an AAC that is being played by Quicktime and remove the protection. This leaves a bare AAC file with no MPEG headers that has all of the copy protection and encryption removed. it does not convert to MP3.
 
Originally posted by: konichiwa
I know that, but you have to do that before you convert to mp3 if you want the best conversion.
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A portected AAC and a normal AAC are identical minus the copy protection. There is no compression difference or quality difference between a protected AAC or a normal one (although an AAC through iTunes is of better quality than a CD-encoded AAC because the one on iTunes is created using a higher quality base). The best conversion would be to burn it to a CD and then re-encode it as a mp3.
 
Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
lol... I'm still kinda surprised people will pay $0.99 for a song thats not even mp3. Kinda reminds me of my friend, went over to his house and saw he had the new napster installed, checked and he had bought 15 SONGS, he wanted me to help him put them on his mp3 player (wma wasn't compatible). I was in shock, cause he spent $15 on songs he can't even use except on his computer and plus I had every single song he bought in mp3 format, I could have easily put them on his mp3 player had he brought it over 😛
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its not some strange proprietary format, its basically mp4.
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
lol... I'm still kinda surprised people will pay $0.99 for a song thats not even mp3. Kinda reminds me of my friend, went over to his house and saw he had the new napster installed, checked and he had bought 15 SONGS, he wanted me to help him put them on his mp3 player (wma wasn't compatible). I was in shock, cause he spent $15 on songs he can't even use except on his computer and plus I had every single song he bought in mp3 format, I could have easily put them on his mp3 player had he brought it over 😛
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its not some strange proprietary format, its basically mp4.
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What do you mean basically? It is mp4. It just is making use of the protection features that mp4 offers. AAC is the mp4 music format.
 
Originally posted by: KraziKid
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
lol... I'm still kinda surprised people will pay $0.99 for a song thats not even mp3. Kinda reminds me of my friend, went over to his house and saw he had the new napster installed, checked and he had bought 15 SONGS, he wanted me to help him put them on his mp3 player (wma wasn't compatible). I was in shock, cause he spent $15 on songs he can't even use except on his computer and plus I had every single song he bought in mp3 format, I could have easily put them on his mp3 player had he brought it over 😛
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its not some strange proprietary format, its basically mp4.
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What do you mean basically? It is mp4. It just is making use of the protection features that mp4 offers. AAC is the mp4 music format.
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quibble quibble🙂

but really, apple should let one choose higher bitrate mp4, even if its all in our heads... its nice to have peace of mind.
 
Sweet.
So, I can ust look for some piece of software called QTFairuse?
I tried that with no luck.
Anyone have a link?
 
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