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Author Topic: burning itunes store files  (Read 1313 times)

elgibby

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burning itunes store files
« on: November 18, 2006, 10:52:42 am »

will MC12 burn an audio CD of purchaed iTunes files?
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Re: burning itunes store files
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2006, 11:16:58 am »

Sorry, but Apple provides no way for other software / companies to get to the audio data of their proprietary purchased files.  This means burning is not possible.  (playback is only possible through the QuickTime engine)

You can burn and rip to get files that will work anywhere.
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Re: burning itunes store files
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2006, 09:28:41 am »

You can burn and rip to get files that will work anywhere.

...but you will have to use iTunes itself to do the burning. Use iTunes to make an audio CD of your 'protected' iTMS files, then you can use MC12 to rip/import/and manage the converted files...

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Re: burning itunes store files
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2006, 11:02:58 am »

Thx all...
the ripping process for the "itunes cd" is realy slllloooowwwww, much much slower than a commercial CD. Is his normal?
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Re: burning itunes store files
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2006, 03:28:15 pm »

Most likely your drive extracts audio from burned CD-R (or CD-RW) discs slower than from commercial audio CDs.

Since iTunes files are already compressed with a lossy encoder at 128 kbps the audio quality will decrade a bit more if you re-encode the tracks with a lossy encoder. Monkey's Audio or some other lossless encoder would keep the quality unaltered. If lossless files are too big you may want to consider using a higher bitrate than the iTunes files orginally were. For example, MP3 VBR High (~ 200 kbps) could be suitable for keeping the additional quality loss inaudible.
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