i have a decent cd/mp3/dvd player and I have around 900+ Itune songs on there. I recently bought a converter but I have noticed that the majority of my Itunes songs are at 128kbps and maybe 20 with 256kbps. Two questions

1.Is it possible to take that 128kbps song from Itunes and convert it to a higher bit rate and notice a difference on a stock speakers? (is it possible and then what kbps would be acceptable)

2.Does anyone know if it possible to rip the itune dongs to mp3 files and then burn that to a dvd? never tried but would save me soo much time

And I did search for this but all I found was topics about ipod and iphone hookups so I don't want to hear any

I appreciate any feedback even if its bad news

also anyone who has videos from itunes or movies can you burn them........if so pm me

Jon

 

1. No. You're not going to recover the data that's lost unless you use some sophisticated software, of which I'm not familiar.

2. If you bought the songs from iTunes, the copy protection will not allow you to do that. For most of my conversions, I use CD-EX. I'm uncertain about the format your source material is in but there are may codecs available. And it's completely free. Another option but very slow is to use a program like Total Recorder. It captures the output going to the speakers, thus already stripped of proprietary formats and has been up-sampled. It then will save the audio in many different formats. I use this to capture Real (*.ram) streaming music. The draw back is that you have to play the music in order to capture, making it slow for converting large libraries.

 

Nope not possible. Well that is in acurate ...yes it is possible to convert them to 256, but the 128 quality remains the same. You cannot make up the quality. You can brush the sound and work on them, but lost data is lost data.


They sell dongs on iTunes now? ;-)Kidding, yes you can. The CDA format should work good on DVDs.

First you can actually save even more time by just taking off the "protection" apple mess up the files with...

There are softwares that remove the copy protection. Do a search, they should be open source and free. Btw. Made by one of the guys that helped kick the DVD protection...your name sake Jon..
This shold point you in the direction you need to go to search for it...
http://www.teezeh.de/2008/02/19/dvd-jon-vs-itunes/

Oh, and next time buy your music on Amazon with no copy protection. Apple sucks.

There is a lot of open source software for this too...a lot.

a.