Conversion Question: MP3

Ok - I have an Ipod right?

Well I don't like ITunes... I only use it to put my songs onto my Ipod. I mean I would use it if I could actually buy songs and download them... but everytime I buy a song and try to download it - ITunes freezes and shuts down :( I dont know whats wrong I tried everything. But whatever moving on.

So I use MusicMatch. With MusicMatch I can buy songs and download them. BUT The aren't compatible with Itunes. SOOOOoooooooooo in order to turn them into MP3s I have been burning songs onto CD's THEN loading the songs back onto my computer and then they are MP3s.... It's rediculous and very expensive and I know there has to be an easier way. Could someone help me here? :confused:

Thanks

You could get CD-RW's so you could write over the CDs or I use this little converty thingy, but it is slow, I will try and find the name. But I know you need to find an MP3 codec to convert and stuff. It is crazy.

Thanks :D

Goldwave is a shareware prog that you can use for everything from batch conversions to audio editing. If you want to encode/decode/convert MP3 data, look up Razor Lame, or check out the audio utilities at doom9.org (goes down frequently unfortunately).

Today I read on news.google.com that the copyright owners of MP3 are now making a new era of MP3, which limits the amount of MP3s that you can download and stops you copying them. Poo

I'll bet you a dollar that "new mp3" will be broken in less than 3 months after its debut. Probably a lot less, considering how many pissed off hackers there will be out there.

So what do I need to do in order to convert them?.... Goldwave?

Well since they are DRM Managed WMA files... I don't know if something like Goldwave would work. Don't have a Windows machine handy to try it. Or DRM managed WMA files... you might be stuck burning and re-ripping them. Unless there is some illegal type program out there to do it for you.

People will just rip with the old MP3 format....nobody except band web sites will use the new MP3. You can't force people to use the new rippers.

But leave it to Microsoft and I bet with Windows:Reloaded (The next version before Longhorn - dumb name if you ask me... and why name it after a movie that was a pile of crap? They should have just called it Windows: Gigli.) but.... I bet new versions of windows will convert all mp3's to new formats and stamp them. But as Deker said, probaby 3 months (or 3 weeks prior to the release) cnn will post how some 19 year old cracked it already.