I'm trying to get audio files, now as .m4a, but I can change the suffix as necessary, from my desktop to I Tunes. When I drag the file to a page of I Tunes, it shows a plus ( +) sign but is not added to I Tunes. What do I have to do to transfer?
Drag them to an empty playlist window. They may not have tags and aren't showing up where you expect them to. If you have an empty playlist then if they get added it should be obvious.
If you still have problems it would help to know the source of these files. Are you positive they are mp4 audio?
Initially they were .aup files. I had transferred them from a cassette tape by Audacity, which gave them this .apu designation, "tag," right?
Each time I go to transfer these files, by dragging from my desktop to an open I Tunes pages, Ithe file bounces back.
If I click on one of the files, instead of trying to transfer, I get
message 1: couldn't find the project data folder
message 2: could not load file
Now what? And thanks for your help
Dennis
.aup is an Audacity project file and I suspect is pretty specific to Audacity. You need to convert your files to a format iTunes can read. If you can convert directly to AAC with Audacity that would be fastest, otherwise save as AIFF which iTunes can read, then convert with iTunes.
dot-something is an extension, not a tag. A tag is an invisible bit of data in a media file that contains information such as artist, title, etc. An extension provides information to the computer as to which programs can open a file. Simply changing the extension does not change the file and can only confuse an application if it thinks it can open a file but once it tries it only sees meaningless data.
I'm glad you found your own post "helpful" and marked it as such. 😉
I'm trying to get audio files, now as .m4a, but I can change the suffix as necessary, from my desktop to I Tunes. When I drag the file to a page of I Tunes, it shows a plus ( ) sign but is not added to I Tunes. What do I have to do to transfer?
