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Conversion to other multimedia file formats
Audio file conversion
- Music - Radio, MP3, Multimedia, etc. ...
- Downloads
- If you buy music online because you're interested in acquiring specific songs, consider that most online music merchants--including Apple's iTunes store--don't offer high-quality music. They use lossy codecs such as MP3 and AAC with bit rates that max out at 256 kilobits per second. Buying and ripping CDs is old-fashioned, but in doing so you enjoy much higher audio quality
- Music Giants, the biggest fish in this small pond, offers a broad range of pop, classic rock, jazz, and world music encoded in the WMA Lossless format. Much of the Music Giants catalog is free from DRM restrictions
- Linn Records presents a fine collection of classical, jazz, and Celtic music encoded in the FLAC, WMA Lossless, and MP3 formats. None of Linn Records' offerings is saddled with the annoying DRM technology.
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- Apple iTunes
- If you purchased media from Apple before Apple stopped including DRM (about 2009), you can remove the DRM (*.m4p, *.m4v, etc.) only if you are the one who purchased the media and you can connect to your iTunes account.
If you don't remove the DRM, you may play the media only on (up to) 5 devices using iTunes that Apple approves.
- Burn the *.m4p as *.mp3 to a CD-R (but don't select the Burn as MP3 CD option).
- Download a new file from iTunes.
- M4V - Remove the file from iTunes > rename the file from .M4V to .MP4 > Add the file back to iTunes
- There is no program anywhere that can remove the DRM if you do not have a valid playback from iTunes.
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- Convert to MP3
- iTunes
- MediaCoder
- Audacity (free)
- EAC (Exact Audio Copy)
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- Convert WMA to MP3
- Convert the WMA file to WAV and convert the WAV to MP3.
- Find conversion tools by doing a search for "wma mp3 convert" (without quotes) on Google. (Here are the search results, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&newwindow=1&safe=active&q=wma+mp3+convert&btnG=Google+Search.
- Use one of our free files, http://www.dbpoweramp.com/.
- Here's how to use dBPowerAmp.
- Right-click the file you want to convert and choose Convert To.
- Select MP3.
- Use the defaults on the interface and check Preserve ID Tags.
- Click the Convert button.
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- Convert AA (Audible.com Audio and other DRM formats) to MP3
- Convert CD tracks to FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
- Rip tracks from CD and encode them to FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), which will deliver compressed but bit-by-bit accurate copies of your music (much in the way that zipping a text file with a compression algorithm can reduce the size of the file without losing any of the text). All you need is a PC with an optical drive, some free software, and your collection of audio CDs.
- Exact Audio Copy - $0 - Exact Audio Copy is a so called audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives.
- The FLAC codec is included in the EAC download; the EAC installation will install it automatically unless you tell the program otherwise. FLAC is also free, and--equally as important--you'll find support for it in some of the best music-streaming devices on the market, including the Sonos Digital Music System, Logitech's Transporter and Squeezebox series, and Olive's Opus No. 4. Finding FLAC support on portable music players is a little more difficult, although nearly every player that Cowon America manufactures can handle it. If you'd prefer to not replace the player you already have with one that supports FLAC, you can reencode or transcode FLAC files to another format, such as MP3, that your player does support.
- If you'd like to use the free online database service Freedb to download details about the CDs you're ripping (album and song titles, for instance), enter your e-mail address when prompted (this won't lead to spam, but feel free to use a fake address if you're paranoid). This information will be used to create ID3 tags for the files you'll be creating.
- Commercially recorded CDs usually have gaps in between their tracks. The gaps often contain digital silence, but they sometimes contain a fade from a previous track, an introduction to the next track, or even an entire song (a so-called hidden track). A CD player will play a gap's content only when the tracks are automatically played in sequential order; in other words, if you skip to Track 3, you won't hear anything that might have been encoded in the gap preceding Track 3. When you rip the CD, EAC will default to appending each gap to the previous track. If you want the program to append the gap to the next track, or if you want to leave the gap out entirely (which I don't recommend because you might lose important audio material), press the F4 key to have EAC detect gaps on the CD. Click the Action menu and choose the option you prefer.
- Most of the work involved with using Exact Audio Copy to rip CDs occurs during the setup process. The actual ripping process is amazingly simple: Drop your disc of choice in the drive tray, click the Action menu, and select Test and Copy Selected Tracks (using the Compressed option from the submenu). EAC will sequentially test, rip, and then compress each of the CD's tracks to a FLAC file. The program will delete each .wav file after each compression step.
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Video file conversion
- Converting, Ripping, Burning
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Premier Pro
- Apple QuickTime ... - Uninstall QuickTime immediately!
- CloudConvert - convert anything to anything - $0 - Free online file converter
- Free Video Converter by Extensoft - Reviews and free Free Video Converter by Extensoft downloads at Download.com
- HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.
- Supported sources:
- Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted--protection methods including CSS are not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), and some .VOB and .TS files
- Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.
- Outputs:
- File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
- Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
- Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)
- Movavi - Video Converter, DVD to iPod Converter, iPod/PSP/3GP/MP4 Converter. Convert AVI MPEG WMV MOV to iPod, PSP, 3GP and MP4 format.
- QuickTime Pro
- Total Video Converter
- Video Converters - CNET Download.com
- Windows Movie Maker
- Youtube downloader
- Zamzar - convert document, eBook, image, audio and video - free online file conversion