[PB PM]

Originally Posted by Yontsey Didn't want to start a new thread so I figured I'd just ask in here. What is a good way to convert an M4P file from iTunes do an MP3? I want to put a song on a microSD card for an anniversary present to my wife.

What device are you plugging the stick into that won’t play the iTunes files? An older car or something?

[turtle]

If they are protected then you would need to download them from Music as a converted version. If they are from a subscription then you would have to buy them first.

There are hacks and ways around it, but generally that is playing then and then recoding/capturing the output. This gets into legal concerns... like piracy and such.

[709]

I had a handful of songs/albums that were bought from Apple years ago in .m4p format that started nagging me with the 'not authorized' after juggling machines. So I did what any normal person would do and set out on a small trip sailing the High Seas. I paid for them, I want to play them. Fuck all that hoop-jumping.

[turtle]

Personally, I'm with you on that one.

Thankfully for me any song I bought through iTunes was able to be stripped of DRM with iTunes in the Cloud. I think there is still something like that with the Music subscription, but it only works on songs you paid for, not ones that are played with the subscription.

[Yontsey]

The card goes into this clock device. Says it only plays MP3 files.

I purchased the song already to try and make it easier. It says AAC file available, but when you go look at where the file downloaded to, it still shows as a M4P file. I saw a couple webpages where you can load the file and convert it but they all reject it because it says it's protected.

[Yontsey]

Originally Posted by turtle Personally, I'm with you on that one. Thankfully for me any song I bought through iTunes was able to be stripped of DRM with iTunes in the Cloud. I think there is still something like that with the Music subscription, but it only works on songs you paid for, not ones that are played with the subscription.

I have iTunes Match so I should be able to do that. How do you go about that?

[turtle]

On a computer that doesn't have it downloaded you right click on the song in Music and download to the local computer.

[Yontsey]

Ah ok. I'll have to do it from my MBP later then. Didn't realize you couldn't do it from the same computer you bought/downloaded it from.

[turtle]

Well, you can, but you have to delete the file from it first. Not delete from Music, just the actual file.

[PB PM]

Just be careful about that, in case the songs are no longer available. I have a few that cannot be downloaded anymore for example.

[turtle]

Oh... I hadn't thought of that. Does that apply if you uploaded the song via iTunes Match? It seems like they would keep a copy of it for you.

[PB PM]

Originally Posted by turtle Does that apply if you uploaded the song via iTunes Match?

No idea, don't use it.

[709]

Oi Vey. I need to remedy this thread not being updated in a long while. Out of many, the two records heaviest in rotation right now at chez709 are:

IDLES - Tangk
Yves Tumor - Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)

Both are eminently relistenable.

There's been so much great music put out in the last couple of years that I'm still playing a lot of catch-up, but I'm working on it.


[edit: imma add links]

[psmith2.0]

Still on a ferocious 60’s soul kick, so I’m wearing out any and all Stax Records artists and albums on Apple Music, primarily Otis Redding. I’ve always preferred/enjoyed Stax more than Motown. A little bluesier, rawer and funkier, IMO. AND just down the road from me in Memphis. Regional pride? Detroit may as well be in another solar system! I love the instrumentation, the bass and guitar, the horns, etc. just happy, good music. It seems more stripped now and not as good ntricately arranged/produced as some of the late-60’s Motown stuff, which I also love as well. Ain’t nothing like a good Stax or Motown bass line running through a song, all cool and pulsing. Those guys were the players and those hooks/grooves will outlive us all!

[Yontsey]

I, sadly, rarely listen to music anymore. Usually only when I lift weights. Either some old workout playlists I've put together or 90s Rap, 90s Alternative, or Emo on Pandora. Almost exclusively podcasts with some audible books mixed in.

[psmith2.0]

I went through a period where I didn’t either. Apple Music kinda changed that. Havingbeveryrgingvavailablevto me, including comedy albums, is awesome. I don’t listen to any modern output, really. Just can’t get into the sample, Autotune and skanks crooning about their pussies, so there you go. 50’s, 60’s and 70’s, all genres, isn’t wheelhouse/comfort zone. Real guitars, drums, pianos and organs, etc. Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, buddy Holly, rockabilly, early 60’s surf/hot-rod/garage stuff, 60’s British Invasion, 70’s crunch, funk and disco. I’ll go from KISS to Chic and not think twice, then all the great 80’s stuff I loved to listen to/learn/play as a teen…Duran Duran, INXS (anyone from Australia, really ), all the early .89’s crazy one-hit Usk/NTV stuff (Nadness, Bow wow wow, any music in a John Hughes movie, Stray Cats, Devo, Big Country (their songs made me wanna put on a kilt, grab a broad sword and tear shit up). I felt so proud to be 1/4 Scottish and I fell off in the 90’s (CollectivevSoul, Sheryl Crow, Everclear, etc. is that last modern/current stuff I remember listening to/liking. I love listening to comedy/standup albums as I go to sleep. Hard to have nightmares when you drift off chuckling…Richard Pryor, David Spade, Tom Papa, Brian Regan or his brother Dennis, Dennis Miller, Paul Mooney, Redd Foxx, Nate Bargatze, Lewis Black, Patton Oswalt (probably my favorite of all), etc.