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February 10th, 2005, 12:02 PM
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| Converting .mov songs to iPod compatible files I have various .mov songs, freebies, samples and live music, that I have accumulated online. I have these songs scattered through various playlists in iTunes and they play just fine. However, whenever I sync my iPod I get the "blah, blah, blah, could not be...because it will not play on an iPod", or something along those lines. Anyway, those .mov tunes do not get loaded on my iPod. Is anyone familiar with an app that would convert these files to .mp3 or other compatible file type? I haven't had success using QT Pro and any help would be much appreciated.  |
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#2
February 10th, 2005, 01:00 PM
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| Try Audio Hijack. Good luck!
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February 10th, 2005, 02:47 PM
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| Try The QuickTime Player again - you should be able to go File->Export->Sound to AIFF - boom - sound file ready for import back into iTunes. This will be a long-winded process do do manually on a large number of file (unless you know some scripting) but its much faster than real time (under 15secs for my test file - a three minute .mov file from iTMS). AudioHijack is a great solution for real time encoding of tricky streaming media but not a good solution in this case. (Oh and it's great if you like to compress and otherwise post-process audio before it hits your speakers - I used to love the excitifier for adding a bit of depth the crappy low-bit rate internet radio.) By the way you might want to consider using a lossless codec on these files rather that mp3 or aac. At least double check, using a couple of test files, that you are happy with the result of different lossy codecs. The more times audio is encoded with these kinds of codecs the worse it gets. Gabs |
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February 10th, 2005, 03:06 PM
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| Hmmm, I haven't seen Audio Hijack in any of my searches and I'm not sure it's what I'm looking for. The only app I've found that may do what I want is called mAC3dec. Any experience anyone? I'll try that tonight. Also the .mov --> .aiff --> something else via QT Pro looks like an option I should explore again. Either way this could get time consuming. |
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February 10th, 2005, 03:11 PM
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February 10th, 2005, 03:35 PM
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| Hi Bob - could you please expand - I'll be "darned" if I can find how to get my copy of Audio Hijack Pro to convert a .mov file to an audio file without having to play it in real time. Gabs [note to censors: sorry but I though that I'd self censored enough by the careful use of asterisks. Aparently this is still too much - that's fine and I now know better - but please don't try to make me look like more of an idiot than I already am by just cutting text. Not much difference - but you took the sense away by removing the "I'll be" as well as the "profanity".] Last edited by gdekadt; February 12th, 2005 at 12:52 PM. Reason: replacing censored sentiment |
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February 10th, 2005, 04:13 PM
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| mAC3dec versiontracker link does indeed convert my .mov audio files to .mp3 files, and quite efficiently. And for free, no less. So far, so good. Now I'll see how they sound, then if they'll actually load onto the iPod. |
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February 10th, 2005, 05:47 PM
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| So far this is what I have learned. You can't tell by looking at the file type whether or not a song will play on an iPod. I have one playlist alone where 37 out of 82 songs will not load on the 'pod. For the life of me I don't know why. Anyone know of a song sniffer that can tell the difference? Second, you can't appreciate what a convoluted mess an iTunes music folder becomes until you try to track some of these things down. I guess it's not a real BIG deal for me that I can't play these songs. Many of them were free anyway. But my iPod has definitely lost some of its aura for me after this escapade. |
