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Hello,
So I have a collection of music on an external hard drive that is predominantly in .WMA format from when I had a PC a few years ago. I now have a mac (had one for about three years now!) and am abouts to get an iphone. I want to convert all my old music and get it into itunes so I can listen to it on my new phone. Does anyone know a good way to do this? Do I have to use automator? Seeing as I used windows media player to take the music off a cd in the first place will all the tracks have drm protection? Also I renamed most of the tracks personally as I was copying them to my computer, is there a way to keep the file names during this process?
any help as always is really appreciated?
Quote from Apples website over here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1473
You can add audio files that are in AAC, MP3, WAV, AIFF, Apple Lossless, or Audible.com (.aa) format. [b]If you have unprotected WMA content, iTunes for Windows can convert these files to one of these formats[/b].
So it looks like it can't be done on a Mac. If you still have a PC you can do it through iTunes on that for some reason but only if they are unprotected.
Otherwise you'll need a converter program. Discussion over here -> http://macosx.com/forums/switchers-windows-mac-converts/268239-how-convert-wma-itunes.html
The WMA files you created won't be drm protected.
iTunes will import them directly. No need for another import programme, just drag them from the finder window into iTunes.
Doesn't work on Mac apparently. Windows only.
iTunes for [b][u]Windows[/u][/b] can convert these files to one of these formats
Never tried it myself so I may be wrong.
The wma files could be drm protected. Windows media player has a nasty way of setting the 'apply drm' setting when you update it to the latest version as I found out... Had to re-rip a whole load of files in the end.
cheers troops will have a go on the weekend.