Lurker Introduction

Started by DaveC, May 17, 2009, 04:32:52 PM

Hello! I've been lurking on the forum of and on for several months since I purchased my Micro BR, and I've found some useful information.

Long story into a short question: has anyone here successfully downloaded a song from iTunes and then successfully uploaded it to your MicroBR?

I haven't been able to overcome the difficulty using iTunes to obtain songs that I want to upload to my Micro BR in order to use the trainer function to learn to play the song.

As many of you might already know, the Micro BR is compatible only with MP3 or WAV files, but iTunes delivers MP4 files to my Dell PC. iTunes allegedly offers the option of converting to MP3 format during download using either the "options" or "preferences" menu tab, but even though I check the "Encode as MP3" feature I've only been able to download songs in MP4 format.

Is my only choice to hunt for the particular music CDs containing the songs I want and then copy the songs (hopefully in MP3 format) to my PC's hard drive and then upload the songs to my Micro BR?


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You need a magic piece of software that will take your song off your IPod and turn it into an MP3, now I wonder where you could find a bit of free software that would do just that?
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Welcome to the community, DaveC.... The 3rd one down on this page looks like what you need!! I use the Video one with success every time~ No hassle, free stuff!!!! Good Luck!!!

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You could try this site to convert your iTunes MP4 files to MP3 format.

http://media-convert.com/


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Hi lurking DaveC ... and welcome from Norway.

Quote from: Flash Harry on May 17, 2009, 05:27:05 PMYou need a magic piece of software that will take your song off your IPod and turn it into an MP3, now I wonder where you could find a bit of free software that would do just that?
iTunes?

Seriously .... iTunes should work. I haven't tried on downloaded music, but I've successfully converted tracks I've imported in itunes (mp4-format) to mp3 by changing the importsettings to mp3 (192kbs ....) and then rightclicking on the track I want to convert and choose "make mp3 version" (i think that was the choice)

Good luck !!!! and make some music  :D
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