[X4U] Un-cooperative iTunes

[Stroller]

On 26 Jul 2007, at 15:40, faramineux wrote:

> I just bought a soundtrack album in the store. The files are  
> in .m4p. I want the real thing .aiff so I can play them on my  
> stereo system. I am trying to convert them but the error message  
> keeps coming up: (-42024). Any idea? TIA

If you want to burn them on to a CD to play in a regular CD player  
then I think you need to put them all in a single playlist and from  
the File menu choose "Burn Playlist to Disk". Before doing so ensure  
that iTunes > Preferemces > Advanced > Burning > Disk Format is set  
to "Audio CD".

I assume that by "the store" you're referring to The iTunes Store  
(tm). For the purposes of clarity, could I ask you to refer to that  
as "the iTunes store", rather than just "the store". I went to the  
store & bought a CD; I went to the store & bought bread; I've run out  
of cigarettes so I'd better run to the store before it closes.

A regular CD which you buy in the store (a regular CD which you buy  
in the supermarket) does not contain .aiff files. If you buy a copy  
of "Confessions on a Dance Floor" on physical CD from an actual store  
and put it in your Mac and the tracks appear to be .aiff files then  
this is actually the operating system abstracting the contents for  
you - if you drag & drop the .aiff file onto your desktop then the  
track is "ripped" to .aiff on the fly. A CD actually contains a  
single digital stream of bits in a spiral from hub to rim; were you  
to save a bunch of .aiff files onto a CD-R then that CD-R would  
contain a filesystem as well as those files, rendering it unreadable  
on a home CD player.

Stroller.