i-tunes to mp3?

[glen]

I have a Slimp3 player that I use to play mp3s over the home stero system, but it will not play i-tunes.
Is there a work around or "crack" or anything?
Please forgive me if this is a taboo topic.
These are files I have paid for, I just want to listen to them with the Slimp3 player.

 

[ClueLis]

There's no easy way to do this. The best you can do is burn it to a CD, then rip that back to mp3, but you'll lose a lot of quality in the process.

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: ClueLis
There's no easy way to do this. The best you can do is burn it to a CD, then rip that back to mp3, but you'll lose a lot of quality in the process.

This is the only way without undoing the digital rights management of the AAC wrapper. I disagree on the quality loss though, you shouldn't lose much, if any.

AAC is relatively low bitrate.
You are burning to a lossless WAV file on a CD.
You are then extracting the WAV file via digital audio and recompressing it into an MP3. Assuming you use a bitrate ~192 or higher, your quality is limited by the AAC file off iTunes - which is 128 kbs.

 

[ClueLis]

Originally posted by: beer

Originally posted by: ClueLis
There's no easy way to do this. The best you can do is burn it to a CD, then rip that back to mp3, but you'll lose a lot of quality in the process.

This is the only way without undoing the digital rights management of the AAC wrapper. I disagree on the quality loss though, you shouldn't lose much, if any.

AAC is relatively low bitrate.
You are burning to a lossless WAV file on a CD.
You are then extracting the WAV file via digital audio and recompressing it into an MP3. Assuming you use a bitrate ~192 or higher, your quality is limited by the AAC file off iTunes - which is 128 kbs.

The problem is that you are converting from one compression system to another, and each loses different pieces of information. What happens is that you lose the sum total of the losses of both formats.

 

[glen]

Is there an easy way around the digital rights management of the ACC format? I heard soemoen cracked it.

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: glen
Is there an easy way around the digital rights management of the ACC format? I heard soemoen cracked it.

are you talking specifically about itunes AAC / MP4? there is .. QTFairUse .. but it's usually the source and you'll have to compile the windows binary to use it.

you can always use FAAC, which is a free AAC encoder.

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: Sid59

Originally posted by: glen
Is there an easy way around the digital rights management of the ACC format? I heard soemoen cracked it.

are you talking specifically about itunes AAC / MP4? there is .. QTFairUse .. but it's usually the source and you'll have to compile the windows binary to use it.

you can always use FAAC, which is a free AAC encoder.

I would not know even how to begin askign the question about compiling.
If FAAC is easier, why not use it?

 

[HJB417]

since itunes doesn't like my cdburner
I play the mp4 using winamp, and record as wav using 'sound recorder'
this is possible because the sblive has the "what u hear" audio input option.

sound recorder can record the audio using whatever codecs are installed, so u can save as mp3, wma, etc and not just wav

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the SBLive mixer is set up to record the speaker output (Creative calls it "What U Hear") instead of just a specific input channel (thus any wave-out will be captured in the recording).

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: Sid59

Originally posted by: glen
Is there an easy way around the digital rights management of the ACC format? I heard soemoen cracked it.

are you talking specifically about itunes AAC / MP4? there is .. QTFairUse .. but it's usually the source and you'll have to compile the windows binary to use it.

you can always use FAAC, which is a free AAC encoder.

I would not know even how to begin askign the question about compiling.
If FAAC is easier, why not use it?

people like all-in-one solutions. if they choose iTunes to manage their music, there's no point in using another app to rip and encode FAAC.