Greetings all,

I'm purchaseing music from I Tunes and still have a need to use MP3 format for my car deck. Is there any programs for converting from AAC to MP3 other than ripping to audio CD then MP3 or are there licensing issues that would prevent this?

Thanks

Trekmaster

The itune music store AAC files are protected-you cannot convert them directly from aac to mp3 (or to wav for that matter). The cd making proceedure may work, but there may be something at work in their protection scheme that the resulting wav extracted the the cd would sound bad. Might have to ask the girlfriend/wife for an ipod for christmas, with a cassette adapter so you can listen to the itunes music store aac files in the truck.

Thanks thats what I figuered. I have a CD MP3 in the truck it has an input for portables & I have an Archos MP3 that I use as well. I already ripped Itunes AAC to audio the re-ripped to MP3 it sounds fine so I don't think there will be a problem that way. I know MP3 will go away eventually but for the moment my DVD home theater sytem and my truck are MP3 freindly.

Thanks For The Feedback

Trekmaster

Such applications do exist for Mac OS X, but none have been written for MS Windows so far.

It may be illegal to circumvent the copy protection; I wouldn't know, but it sounds reasonable to me.

As danchr has said, there are progs out there, but the only ones I know are for OSX.

Burning to CD (which is part of the iTMS agreement so is legal) then back to LAME didn't seem to be a problem when I did it. Just keep the bitrates up there (maybe -apx) and you should be fine and very close to original quality even going lossy to lossy.

Another way to convert Music Store's AAC files would be to use this conversion tool that would take it to an AIFF file. Then it's not protected any longer. Go to:
http://conglomco.org/aac/