iTunes AAC to iMovie 2

[Charles Martin]

> From: Juan Mariscal <juanm at mac.com>
> the question i have is how does one convert these AACs to AIFF.

As with so many things Macintosh, there are at least two ways (very 
Zen, innit?):

1. Burn the tunes to an Audio CD. Change iTunes' "Import" preferences 
to AIFF encoder and re-import the tunes. You can also choose to make 
them MP3s if you prefer, but re-compressing is likely to make the sound 
quality suffer.

2. By changing the Import preferences as described above, you can 
convert directly by selecting an AAC tune and going to the "Advanced" 
menu where there will be an item called "convert selection to AAC."

>> iTunes will, so use that. It will not let you (directly) convert to
>> MP3, however.
>
> How does iTunes allow you to export the files to another format and
> what format would that be?

See above. Also I should have been more clear on my answer:

iTunes does not allow you to convert an AAC file *purchased from the 
iTunes Music Store* (hereafter referred to as "protected AAC") directly 
to MP3. As I described above, this can be worked around and is designed 
primarily to stop widescale pirating.

AAC files you have encoded yourself (using iTunes 4 or other options) 
are NOT protected and CAN be converted to MP3 directly, but again it's 
a re-compression so sound quality suffers.

_Chas_
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