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My music was ripped to my PC with WMPlayer. I would like to transfer some of it to our Iphones using ITunes. How best to do that? Add the music to my Itunes library using ITunes? Does this create a second file on my PC or does it just point to the file? Much of the music is in .wma or MP3 format. Will ITunes convert to an Apple file?
See Getting iTunes & Windows Media Player to play nicely - Apple Community for thoughts on sharing a common library between the two apps. iTunes can make copies of unprotected WMA files in your chosen import format.
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This is not something I have come across for many years but a long time ago iTunes for Windows had the built-in ability to import WMA audio files in to iTunes as long as they were not protected by DRM. (iTunes for Mac has never been able to do this.) I don't know if this is still the case. If not you will first have to convert any WMA files.
iTunes for both Windows and Mac can import MP3 files.
If iTunes for Windows still supports importing WMA files then it should simply be a matter of telling iTunes to import the folder containing the (unprotected) WMA files and any MP3 files.
In terms of the future by far the easiest process is as follows.
Since iTunes does not support FLAC, has poor support for WMA and cannot use directly WMA only convert them, and since equally WMP has poor support for AIFF the best formats that both iTunes and WMP can agree on are AAC, ALAC and MP3.
WMP for Windows 10 has full built-in support for AAC and ALAC. It is however possible to also get older versions of Windows and older versions of WMP to also support AAC and ALAC although this will require extra work.
Note: This means it is possible to get WMP to play AAC and ALAC, to support correctly adding to the music section of the WMP library and to even support reading the meta data including any embedded album artwork.
I have my entire music library - all from CDs in Apple Lossless aka ALAC format and shared with WMP.
To add you music to iTunes, click 'File' in the menu bar>then click 'add file to library' or 'add folder to library'. It's as simple as that. Your iTunes library will now include all of your music whether purchased or music you already had on your PC.
thanks. That was the most helpful response I've gotten in a long time.
Windows Media Player vs ITunes
