Alexx Posted October 3, 2005 Report Share Posted October 3, 2005 I uploaded some music from a CD using my mates computer. I then e-mailed it to myself hoping i could add it to my MDs.Only i seem to have done it as an "m4a"What is this evil they speak of?Sonic stage clearly appreciates it like a shot to the head!help me what have i done and how do i fix it It DOES play on Real Media however Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted October 3, 2005 Report Share Posted October 3, 2005 m4a is supposed to be the successor of mp3, a lossy psychoacoustic compression method like mp3, atrac or ogghttp://www.m4a.com/Your best bet would be to re-rip with sonicstage or the like and put it to md without unnecessary lossy format conversion. If you don't have the possibility, you need to find software to decompress it and feed sonicstage with the resulting '.wav'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted October 3, 2005 Report Share Posted October 3, 2005 If Real can play the files, it can probably burn them to CD. Then you can put the CD in your computer and use Simple Burner to transfer them. You'll probably have to title them yourself. You could also see if dbpoweramp (in Downloads) will rip .m4a to .mp3 or .wav. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexx Posted October 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2005 thanks real converted them for me: but only at the bit rate they were recorded.Thus i think i have lost some quality as MP3 is poor compared to MP4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 In Real under Tools/Preferences/CD you have a choice of what to convert them to. You could convert to .wav, which would preserve all the quality. You can also raise the quality of the mp3s by making them 192 kbps or higher. If for some reason Real makes you keep the same bitrate and won't let you convert to .wav, then try dbpoweramp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexx Posted October 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 thank u!! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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