Working with iTunes Purchases?

[DoogieDown]

Just curious... before I start using iTunes as a source for prod work music... is there a digital editor that will import iTunes' MP4's into its editing window?

Otherwise, I guess I'll just have to dub the MP4's to DAT and then back to Pro Tools or Audition.

 

[TJMPRO]

The best way I found to make your situation work is to burn the m4p files to a CD-RW then extract the audio from CD and then you can wrok with it in a digital editor. Using the CD-RW lets you un-finalize the disc and use it again.

 

[DoogieDown]

> The best way I found to make your situation work is to burn
> the m4p files to a CD-RW then extract the audio from CD and
> then you can wrok with it in a digital editor. Using the
> CD-RW lets you un-finalize the disc and use it again.

Thanks! But, say... I'm not familiar with "un-finalizing" a disc. What's the process for that?

 

[JeremyAndrews]

> Just curious... before I start using iTunes as a source for
> prod work music... is there a digital editor that will
> import iTunes' MP4's into its editing window?
>
> Otherwise, I guess I'll just have to dub the MP4's to DAT
> and then back to Pro Tools or Audition.
>

Open up Audition or whatever you use and just hit record. Then press play in Quicktime or I-Tunes. Raw ripping.<P ID="signature">______________

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[voiceguy]

> > Just curious... before I start using iTunes as a source
> for
> > prod work music... is there a digital editor that will
> > import iTunes' MP4's into its editing window?
> >
> > Otherwise, I guess I'll just have to dub the MP4's to DAT
> > and then back to Pro Tools or Audition.
> >
>
> Open up Audition or whatever you use and just hit record.
> Then press play in Quicktime or I-Tunes. Raw ripping.
>

On the Mac, I use a little app called audio hijack pro.

it allows you to route the audio from any audio or even video application to record it straight to a file.

I open iTunes purchases within it, and just record the segments that I need...ie. Hooks and Instrumentals.



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[RadioMan203]

> > > Just curious... before I start using iTunes as a source
>
> > for
> > > prod work music... is there a digital editor that will
> > > import iTunes' MP4's into its editing window?
> > >
> > > Otherwise, I guess I'll just have to dub the MP4's to
> DAT
> > > and then back to Pro Tools or Audition.
> > >
> >
> > Open up Audition or whatever you use and just hit record.
> > Then press play in Quicktime or I-Tunes. Raw ripping.
> >
>
> On the Mac, I use a little app called audio hijack pro.
>
> it allows you to route the audio from any audio or even
> video application to record it straight to a file.
>
> I open iTunes purchases within it, and just record the
> segments that I need...ie. Hooks and Instrumentals.
>
>
>
> mb
>

The question is, how is the quality of the resulting file? Music purchased from iTunes is encoded in 128k in AAC format, but after transcoding it a few times won't it sound like a crummy mp3 file? I know it's this train of thinking that has me purchasing those funny round plastic disks to get a full bandwidth version of the track(s) I need.

 

[voiceguy]

> > > > Just curious... before I start using iTunes as a
> source
> >
> > > for
> > > > prod work music... is there a digital editor that will
>
> > > > import iTunes' MP4's into its editing window?
> > > >
> > > > Otherwise, I guess I'll just have to dub the MP4's to
> > DAT
> > > > and then back to Pro Tools or Audition.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Open up Audition or whatever you use and just hit
> record.
> > > Then press play in Quicktime or I-Tunes. Raw ripping.
> > >
> >
> > On the Mac, I use a little app called audio hijack pro.
> >
> > it allows you to route the audio from any audio or even
> > video application to record it straight to a file.
> >
> > I open iTunes purchases within it, and just record the
> > segments that I need...ie. Hooks and Instrumentals.
> >
> >
> >
> > mb
> >
>
> The question is, how is the quality of the resulting file?
> Music purchased from iTunes is encoded in 128k in AAC
> format, but after transcoding it a few times won't it sound
> like a crummy mp3 file? I know it's this train of thinking
> that has me purchasing those funny round plastic disks to
> get a full bandwidth version of the track(s) I need.
>


The answer is...it sounds the same as the file you download. When I use that Audio Hijack program, it's literally routing the audio output from one program, and recording it to anothe file. You can create whatever file type you wish. I record them as .aiff files...so that way, I'm not RE-compressing the compressed file.

If you burn the iTunes files to a CD, and then re-import...just re-import them as a non-compressed format ( .wav or .aiff ).

Won't sound any worse than 3/4 of the stuff you hear on most alternative stations these days.

I hear low quality mp3s on stations all the time...who thinks that's a good idea?

 

[jcolletta275]

I don't think this is possible if you're using Windows' built-in CD burning features, however if you have a program like Nero or Easy Media Creator (I believe that's what they're calling it these days), you can choose not to finalize the disc when you burn it. It allows you to burn more than one session to a single disc (which can be risky... some CD players won't read tracks burned in extra sessions). As for un-finalizing a disc, I'm not sure that can be done without erasing the whole thing, no matter what program you're using.<P ID="signature">______________

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