What software for music on SD Card?

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chrisrain (archived)
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Posted September 26, 2007 at 09:16 GMT
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Hello to you all,

Unbelievable!! I love this forum even if its too big for me to find my way around. I am new to BEO products, and new to this site..so bare with me.

I just purchased a new BEOSound 4 with BEOLab 4000. I cant wait to receive it this friday!

 What I want to know is this: my whole idea of the SD card is realy to avoid CDs and purchase my music online and then move it onto SD card. Im thinking of leaving the bulk of my music on my laptop and put it on the card as needed. My question is this: which site should I use to download music and which software? I know Itunes is probably the biggest and most popular one but I thought music from itunes only came as aaa format (is that right?) and is not what is required on our SD card for BEOS 4 which is either WMA or MP3.

 I hear of BEOPlayer: is this any good? but would that mean that I would need to downlaod music from say snaper, and then move it onto Beoplayer and then move it again onto the SD card?

 Sorry if my questions are simple and naive...but thank you in advance for your hep. I just would like to have a few tracks ready for Friday and get it right first time round.

 Chris

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pedrompinto (archived)
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Posted September 26, 2007 at 09:23 GMT
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iTunes seems to be the right choice and you can download the music and then convert it to .mp3 (just right click on the song and select convert to .mp3).

Simple and Easy.. just enjoy.
 

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Puncher (archived)
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Posted September 26, 2007 at 09:37 GMT
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Is this true? Is the change from aac to mp3 lossless or does it involve re-encoding in which case the quality of the material will suffer?
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Henry
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Posted September 26, 2007 at 09:37 GMT
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Hi Chris, welcome to BeoWorld!

I have just sent you a PM. If you click on the Inbox button at the very top right handside of this page, you should find it.

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pedrompinto (archived)
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Posted September 26, 2007 at 09:41 GMT
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JoC (archived)
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Posted September 26, 2007 at 09:43 GMT
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Music downloaded from iTunes will be DRM protected, converting it to mp3 would be a bit of a headache. You can download DRM free tracks from iTunes BUT they cost more.

Amazon.com (US only I think) has just started a music service, and all the tracks are mp3 & DRM free, and cost less than iTunes.

JoC
 

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david707 (archived)
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Posted September 26, 2007 at 10:08 GMT
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Hi Chris, I download in WMA and use Windows Media Player 10 to organize and (with a Beosound 2) copy it to SD card. Beoplayer is fine but I've got used to WMP10 so don't bother with it much.
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Puncher (archived)
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Posted September 26, 2007 at 10:26 GMT
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If you aren't going to want to use .aac as your native format then I would download from online stores other than iTunes as it seems crazy to download and then convert to mp3, suffering a loss in quality in the process. 
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JoC (archived)
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Posted September 26, 2007 at 10:31 GMT
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amazon.com (US only) has just started a music service, mp3 & DRM free, and cheaper than iTunes.
 

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chrisrain (archived)
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Posted September 26, 2007 at 10:32 GMT
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That's really useful information thank you. So, if we lose quality moving from itunes to MP3, I might as well us an online store as long as its MP3 format right?

Or as per David's message, stick to WMPlayer.

Thank you all...very useful indeed..and very quick!! I wish the delivery of my music system was that quick...😕

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