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Question: Purchased songs won't burn?

I burn mp3 cd's to play on my motorcycle. Is there a way to burn purchased songs in mp3 format to a cd? iTunes help says no, but I have to believe there is a way around this. I converted the AAC files to mp3, added them to the playlist I was burning, everything seemed OK. But when I play the cd it skips over all the purchased songs. I know I could burn them as regular audio cd's, but this would kind of defeat the purpose since it is hard (and dangerous) to change cd's on a motorcycle. I'm not trying to steal anything, I just want to play the songs I purchased!

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

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User profile for user: Limnos
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Apr 8, 2010 9:15 AM in response to Libby's Dad In response to Libby's Dad

How old are these tracks? Do they date from when iTunes had DRM protection on its music? Even then, if you can convert them to mp3 in the first place that pretty much says "no DRM". Are you positive they have been converted to mp3? If so then they should just burn to a mp3 CD like all the other mp3s. The only other thing I can think of is perhaps your player has specific requirements as to ID3 tag versions. What are the characteristics for some of the other mp3s that do work?

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Apr 8, 2010 4:47 PM in response to Libby's Dad In response to Libby's Dad

Libby's Dad wrote:
I burn mp3 cd's to play on my motorcycle. Is there a way to burn purchased songs in mp3 format to a cd?


If that is what you are doing, it would be much more convenient to purchase the songs in MP3 format in the first place, e.g. from amazon.com.

I converted the AAC files to mp3, added them to the playlist I was burning, everything seemed OK.


Make sure that the songs you put in the playlist are the newly created MP3s, not the original AACs. To make sure this happened correctly, look at the Kind in your playlist (if Kind is not visible, enable it by going to View > View Options) and make sure that they are all MPEG, with no other Kinds mixed in.

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Apr 9, 2010 8:00 AM in response to ed2345 In response to ed2345

I normally do import as mp3, but I just got this iMac and forgot to change the settings. I did convert the files and confirmed I had the mp3 files in my playlist. If I import as mp3, will this not matter? It looks as though the protected files are an issue. Some of the tunes are pretty old (80's and 90's). I don't realy want to buy them again to make them work.

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Apr 9, 2010 8:12 AM in response to Libby's Dad In response to Libby's Dad

If the files are in a mp3 format they are not protected. iTunes was selling protected files up to about a year ago but they were all in AAC/MP4 format and I believe had an extension .m4p

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Apr 9, 2010 8:16 AM in response to Libby's Dad In response to Libby's Dad

If I import as mp3, will this not matter?

What?
It looks as though the protected files are an issue. Some of the tunes are pretty old (80's and 90's).

It doesn't matter when the song was orignally released.
It matter if it has DRM (protected).
In iTunes, right click get info. If is is Protected, it has DRM and it will tell you when you try to convert.
You can burn these songs to an audio CD and that audio CD will work like any other audio CD you can use with iTunes.

Apr 9, 2010 8:16 AM

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Apr 10, 2010 2:12 PM in response to Chris CA In response to Chris CA

OK, that question seemed confusing after reading your response. My question was, if I have my import settings set to import as mp3 instead of AAC(which was the default setting on the new iMac) will the imported mp3 files not have the same protection issue? I have not purchased anything since I discovered this, but have a feeling it won't matter.

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