Itunes song

[jackedup]

I am authoring a DVD slide show using TMPGE Author 2. I needed some background music that I didn't already have so downloaded it from Itunes, TMPGE doesm't recognize it as a valid audio so I tried to convert it using Super however keep getting errors.

I would appreciate if someone could help me out.

Thanks

[starwarrior29]

All you have to do is burn a music cd with the itune file and then rip the song from that cd as an mp3 or wav file.

[jackedup]

All you have to do is burn a music cd with the itune file and then rip the song from that cd as an mp3 or wav file.

Burn it with any software, like Nero or Sonic?

Thank you

[starwarrior29]

On the itunes interface there is an option to burn your downloaded files as a music cd.

[GMaq]

Hi,
Your song is DRM protected so it can't be imported into other apps. Tunebite will remove the DRM and make it into a regular mp3 that you can use for whatever you want, A cheap alternative if you are going to just do one song is to plug your iPod or portable CD player with your song into the Line In of your sound card and re-record it as a WAV file and do whatever you want with it afterwards, you will have a small amount of quality loss but if you do it right it will be so minimal that you probably wont even notice.
EDIT, Star Warrior beat me to it!!

[jackedup]

I burned the song to a CD however what do I use to rip it to my hard drive?

The last time I took a song from a CD I thought I used Sonic however it will not allow me to save it.

Thanks

[starwarrior29]

To rip cd's I've only ever used cdex, it's freeware:
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/download.html

[jackedup]

Well I have it on my hard drive now in a format I can use however there is a short intro by the artist at the start of it. Do you have a suggestion as to what I can use to edit out the first 5 or so seconds and just have the song?

Thanks again for all of your help.

[starwarrior29]

Again cdex allows you to set the start and stop position of the track you are ripping from your cd. Select your track you want to use and select Extract a section of the cd and this window pops up:

[guns1inger]

Audacity

[jackedup]

Thanks for all of the help

[ryanlk]

Again cdex allows you to set the start and stop position of the track you are ripping from your cd. Select your track you want to use and select Extract a section of the cd and this window pops up:

I have noticed those two checkboxes: 'wav file' and 'compressed audio file', what is the difference between them? I mean is the quality difference huge or..?

[jackedup]

I was wondering the same thing. I tried both and couldn't tell the difference but was only listening to it on my computer speakers so wouldn't expect to be able to notice the difference.

The compressed is one tenth of the size of the WAV.

Hopeufully someone with more knowledge will post in response.

[starwarrior29]

Compressed audio file makes it into an mp3 file.

[MOVIEGEEK]

WAV=1410Kbps
Compressed=usually <320Kbps

[Ai Haibara]

As I recall, "WAV file" just outputs it as a standard WAVE file; "Compressed..." outputs it as an MP3-compressed stream with a RIFF WAVE header.