Importing iTunes Song???

[bohunk06]

I don't know exactly where to post this question (so I did it here and in the Recording Techniques forum). Hopefully someone in here can help me. I am editing a video and need to import a song into the video. I have the song that I bought off iTunes. But I need the song to be shortened and edited a little. I have tried importing it into my Cubase but it won't recognize the file. It is one of those protected m4p files. I have tried everything including converting to mp3 (it won't allow that), buring to a disk and importing, renaming the file extension, checked for changing properties, etc, etc, etc. I can't get anything to work. I need to use this song and the last resort I can think of is to play it on my stereo and mic it with some condensers and try to get a decent sound into my Cubase.

Are there any other suggestions that I can try. Certainly there has got to be some way to take this iTunes song and edit it. Help!!

[bigtom]

I've run into the same thing before. My fix was to record directly out of my cd player's outputs and into my firepod to cubase. Hope that helps some. There's got to be a better way.

[NYMorningstar]

Originally Posted by bohunk06

I don't know exactly where to post this question (so I did it here and in the Recording Techniques forum). Hopefully someone in here can help me. I am editing a video and need to import a song into the video. I have the song that I bought off iTunes. But I need the song to be shortened and edited a little. I have tried importing it into my Cubase but it won't recognize the file. It is one of those protected m4p files. I have tried everything including converting to mp3 (it won't allow that), buring to a disk and importing, renaming the file extension, checked for changing properties, etc, etc, etc. I can't get anything to work. I need to use this song and the last resort I can think of is to play it on my stereo and mic it with some condensers and try to get a decent sound into my Cubase.

Are there any other suggestions that I can try. Certainly there has got to be some way to take this iTunes song and edit it. Help!!

When you 'buy' a tune you can save it as a wave file. The songs you buy are not protected so you might want to check to see if the sale went through.

[bohunk06]

The sale went through. I have had it for several months. How do I convert it to a wav? I don't use iTunes at all. I just went on to get this one song. I tried doing the convert to mp3 in iTunes which I have done in the past and it usually works. But this time it said its a protected file. So what do I do to convert to a wav? Thanks!!

[NYMorningstar]

Originally Posted by bohunk06

But this time it said its a protected file. So what do I do to convert to a wav? Thanks!!

I think your only option is to buy it again to take off the protection.

[bohunk06]

Ok, I can try that again. But I don't remember it asking me when I bought it if I wanted it protected/unprotected or if I wanted a wave file. Do you know how that works. Excuse my ignorance... I just never use iTunes. I'm kinda old fashion... still go out and buy CDs.

[NYMorningstar]

I don't use Itunes but as far as I know mp4 is a streaming format which means that you probably have to be connected to Itunes on the net to get it to play. My wife uses Rhapsody and when she buys a song she has the option of what format to save it in e.g. mp3, wav. etc. It would make sense that Itunes has that option.

[altitude909]

Originally Posted by NYMorningstar

I don't use Itunes but as far as I know mp4 is a streaming format which means that you probably have to be connected to Itunes on the net to get it to play. My wife uses Rhapsody and when she buys a song she has the option of what format to save it in e.g. mp3, wav. etc. It would make sense that Itunes has that option.

If it was purchased from the iTune store, then it is an AAC file which is an encrypted and DRM'd format that you will not be able to do anything with. Technically, you are not allowed to convert it to anything but you could burn it to an audio cd and then rip it from there.

Read this:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1476

[Rust E-Z]

Apple just recently offered non DRM'd music, you do have the option to convert the songs that you purchased previously to the new format at about a third of the original cost. Go to the itunes store and look for itunes+. You will have the option to covert witch ever song you want or all that are available.(not everything is available yet)