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Re: aiff-c to mp3?

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M. John Matlaw:

> Picked up a Lyle Lovett cd and noticed later that it is at dts digital 
> surround cd.  It also says dts 20 bit / 5.1 channel on it.  Put it in 
> the optical drive, automatically loaded to iTunes and found out I was 
> just getting buzz on all the tracks.  Command I says the files are 
> AIFF-C but from what I can tell that just describes the container file 
> and doesn't describe the compression.  At any rate, I selected the 
> tracks in iTunes (this is V 11.1.3 under OS 10.6.8) and tried control 
> clicking and converting to mp3.  Which produced two files (both were 
> listed as MPEG) and both of which produced the same buzzing sound.
> 
> I'm hoping someone will be able to tell me if and how I can use iTunes 
> (or Quicktime?)  to convert the tracks to MP3 and hopefully retain the 
> metadata.  I did download something called iDealshare VideoGo.app but I 
> haven't tried it yet.  I also noticed a recommendation of SoundConverter 
> but I'd prefer either iTunes or freeware and I'd really like not to have 
> to hand enter album and track info.  I think the problem I was having 
> with various instructions that I found when I googled the problem was 
> that all of them were for an earlier version of iTunes.

Lotta work there. Why not just get the album from iTunes?

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aiff-c to mp3? "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-01-08 06:18 -0500
  Re: aiff-c to mp3? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-01-08 09:43 -0500
    Re: aiff-c to mp3? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-08 08:17 -0800
      Re: aiff-c to mp3? "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-01-10 08:56 -0500
  Re: aiff-c to mp3? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-01-08 09:46 -0800
  Re: aiff-c to mp3? Salvatore <sal@yojimbo.hack.invalid> - 2014-01-08 18:03 +0000
    Re: aiff-c to mp3? John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-01-08 21:12 -0800
      Re: aiff-c to mp3? "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-01-10 08:58 -0500
        Re: aiff-c to mp3? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-01-10 07:41 -0800
          Re: aiff-c to mp3? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-01-14 19:27 +0100
            Re: aiff-c to mp3? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-01-14 20:52 -0800
            Re: aiff-c to mp3? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-01-15 18:58 +0100
              Re: aiff-c to mp3? John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-01-15 10:34 -0800
                Re: aiff-c to mp3? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-01-16 02:11 +0100
              Re: aiff-c to mp3? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-16 01:50 +0000
              Re: aiff-c to mp3? "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-06-01 16:26 -0400
                Re: aiff-c to mp3? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-06-01 16:31 -0400
                Re: aiff-c to mp3? "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-06-01 17:07 -0400
                Re: aiff-c to mp3? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-06-01 17:15 -0400
                Re: aiff-c to mp3? "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-06-28 07:20 -0400
    Re: aiff-c to mp3? "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-01-10 08:57 -0500
  Re: aiff-c to mp3? mandyreadygo@gmail.com - 2014-04-09 19:31 -0700

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