How to get itunes to work with Audacity?

[fairyrider]

I know that itunes, unless adjusted, does not work with audacity, and that the itunes files cannot be used on audacity. That said, how can itunes settings be changed so that they can indeed work together? I think its somewhere in preferences, but I can't figure it out.

[Gale Andrews]

Audacity has nothing to do wIth iTunes - they are separate applications.

To export from Audacity so that you can see the file in iTunes and convert it to Apple's AAC format, see:
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Expor ... s_and_iPod

To import files in Apple's AAC format into Audacity, see:
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/How_t ... rom_iTunes

As you can see from the links, you can export and import AAC files without converting them if you use Audacity Beta and install the optional FFmpeg library.




Gale

[kozikowski]

If you have older music -- generally that cost 99 cents -- you may not be able to export or convert those songs into anything. Older downloaded iTunes music had FairPlay Copy Protection. The only way to manage those songs is to create a Playlist, drag the music to the Playlist and burn a Music CD. Then rip the CD.

This process is intentionally painful to discourage mass duplication of protected music.

Newer music should work OK straightaway.

I understood that iTunes native format was AAC. You might try to skip the iTunes conversion step and use the music cold. You'll still need to install FFMpeg. Audacity has no idea what an "m4a" (AAC) sound tack is.

Koz

[kozikowski]

And yes, you'll be doing all this in Audacity 1.3, not Audacity 1.2.

Audacity 1.2 is very old and no longer patched, corrected, or updated.
Audacity 1.2 can be unstable on newer computers.

Download and install the latest Audacity 1.3 from here...

http://audacityteam.org/download/

You can install both audacity 1.2 and Audacity 1.3 on
the same computer, but only use one at a time.

Audacity 1.2 will not open projects made on Audacity 1.3.

If you use MP3 or some of the more modern audio
compression formats, get Lame and FFMpeg software
from the same web site. Do not use older software
or software from other web sites, even though they
may have the same names.

Koz