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[tmarnik]

Is there any way to do this easily?  I just upgraded to MC11.03.09 and I can now play AACs on my kids XP machine - my win2K machine crashes MC everytime I try to look at an AAC file, but that's another story - but I can't figure out a way to convert them to mp3 to put them on my son's MuVo NX.

My problem is that my daughter is the only one in the house with an iPOD and she has ripped a bunch of her music into itunes in AAC.  My son has just decided to commandeer her old mp3 player and for some reason wants to select songs from his sister's collection rather than mine - go figure.

Anyway, MC seemed to have everything I need to set things up for this nicely - the MuVox plug-in allows you to specify the format to convert to as you transfer files to the device, but MC won't actually perform the conversion becuase it says that the AAC source files are an unsupported file type.

I know that I can find utilities out there to do the conversion outside of MC, but I'd really like to find a better way.

[Alex B]

I am afraid you can't do that with MC because MC uses external Quick Time decoder for AAC. MC can convert only internally decoded formats. You must use some other utility.

[Galley]

If it helps, RealPlayer 10.5 can convert AAC to MP3 "on the fly" as they are transferred to a portable device.

[Alex B]

Some people think RealPlayer is a real evil.   

I have succesfully converted some occasional aac/m4a files (not DRM protected) to other formats including tagging with dBpowerAMP.

[bob]

It can be tedious but you could cut an audio cd from the aac's in itunes (on a cd-rw of course) and then rip it in MC.