Q: Why did my MP3 files change to m4r files on their own?
I Got A new car and decided to load a ton of music onto a flash drive and just plug it into the center console and just stream from that all the time and it worked great. My boyfriend asked me to do the same thing since his iPod was out of date so I did and I did the same exact thing I did to mine.. I made a play list on itunes and just drug it over to the flash drive but when we plugged it into his car 116 of the files said AAC and wouldn't play so I just took the flash drive back and plugged it back into my macbook, and when I opened it I noticed those files said .m4r instead of .mp3 now unless I'm mistaken .m4r is when you create an AAC version and then make a ringtone out of it.. I wasn't taking the ringtones and the songs I was adding were never created as anything else. so I just right clicked on all the .m4r files, clicked "get info" and changed them back to .mp3 and the files still won't play in the car but they play in iTunes fine, also, I went into my computer's actual music files (Not through iTunes) and noticed somehow about half of my music had changed to .m4r completely on its own. Can someone help explain this to me? I'm running iTunes version 11.4 (18) on an older macbook with OS X 10.6.8 snow leopard. Thank you, Krisie
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Posted on Apr 16, 2015 1:51 PM