Eeek. What have I done? Im starting to buy music?…
To be honest, can’t actually be arsed to download music that’s “free” anymore, its so much hassle and 80% of the time, the mp3′s are really crappy quality and you have to download at least 3 or 4 to finally get a good version.
I was thinking about buying the Kaiser Chiefs and the Arctic Monkeys albums from Play.com, but then thought that would take like 2 days to come through the post, and – I want the music now! – So I went looking for downloadable-buyable music software and yes – iTunes seemed to be the one to go for.
After downloading the 35mb app (Yes, really thirty-five megabytes!) I opened it, registered and entered my card details and was away. It cost just over £1 less on iTunes to buy the Kaiser Chiefs album, than on Play.com so I thought to hell with it and went ahead and bought it.
Disappointed at first, since they download in M4P format, which is a protected format in which you cannot convert to MP3. I was hunting on Google for a while with no luck, but a few forum’s discussed on how to do this although it was vague, so I will re-document it. Its easy!…
- Download your music and once done, go to your “Purchased” folder and select the songs you want in MP3 format.
- At the top right of iTunes, click Burn CD. Whack in a black CD and it’ll burn a standard Audio Disc.
- It will then eject once done. Put it back in and open your favourite CD-MP3 Ripper (CDex is brilliant)
- Start ripping to mp3 format and your done!
Costs £1 less, its instant, good quality and take 1 blank CD.
A little annoyed that iTunes decide to protect the music, but I can understand that, its just I cant play M4P songs in my car’s MP3-CD head unit! Im not sure if this is illegal or not? I can’t imagine it is so long as I don’t distribute my MP3 format songs to anyone else?
Have a look for an application called JTunes.
Converts from M4P to AAC and MP3.
Ah, coolness nice one! Thanks matey