Inkara1
Well-Known Member
This seriously pisses me off.
I've had no trouble finding the songs I want to download. However, before I burn songs to a CD, I like to use WinAmp to convert them to .wav and then edit the song to adjust for volume differences, remove long bits of silence at the end of the track, etc.
But WinAmp won't open songs in the iTunes format. Of course, iTunes will only let me burn CDs directly from the proprietary format, and won't convert them to .wav or something else I can use. There's a "convert to aac" option that it won't do on "protected" files. So my thanks for going legal is the reduction of functionality.
I downloaded both Sirius and Eye in the Sky by the Alan Parsons Project. The two songs go together on the album and are supposed to flow together seamlessly. When I play them in iTunes, there's a tiny pause between the two. I'd like to be able to get rid of that before I put them on a CD. If I'd stolen them on Kazaa Lite, I would have been able to. Instead, I'm being limited in what I can do with something I paid money for.
Is Napster 2.0 like this? I'm wondering if I should have gone with them instead. Everyone always beams praise for iTunes, but this is a limitation that I really, really don't like.
I've had no trouble finding the songs I want to download. However, before I burn songs to a CD, I like to use WinAmp to convert them to .wav and then edit the song to adjust for volume differences, remove long bits of silence at the end of the track, etc.
But WinAmp won't open songs in the iTunes format. Of course, iTunes will only let me burn CDs directly from the proprietary format, and won't convert them to .wav or something else I can use. There's a "convert to aac" option that it won't do on "protected" files. So my thanks for going legal is the reduction of functionality.
I downloaded both Sirius and Eye in the Sky by the Alan Parsons Project. The two songs go together on the album and are supposed to flow together seamlessly. When I play them in iTunes, there's a tiny pause between the two. I'd like to be able to get rid of that before I put them on a CD. If I'd stolen them on Kazaa Lite, I would have been able to. Instead, I'm being limited in what I can do with something I paid money for.
Is Napster 2.0 like this? I'm wondering if I should have gone with them instead. Everyone always beams praise for iTunes, but this is a limitation that I really, really don't like.
