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#200 Cannot convert purchased .m4a files from iTunes to .mp3
WontFix
nobody
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Medium
Defect
2013-09-25
2013-09-09
Anonymous
No
Originally created by: therealt...@googlemail.com
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Select the output to .mp3 (only tried it with .mp3)
2. Choose the folder the .m4a purchased at iTunes are in
3. Error "No audio files found in the folder"
How about the reproducibility (always, sometimes, rarely, ...)?
Always
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
A converted .mp3 file like set in preferences
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
XLD 20130720 / Mac OS X 10.8.4 Mountain Lion
Please provide any additional information below.
There's no problems with Apple Lossless .m4a files
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Originally posted by: tmkkmac
Well, XLD cannot decode AAC .m4a files.
Status: WontFix
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Originally posted by: therealt...@googlemail.com
Why is that? XLD is one of my most useful tools to handle different types of audio but it's lacking functionality here.
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Originally posted by: tmkkmac
AAC is not a lossless format.
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Originally posted by: therealt...@googlemail.com
.mp3 isn't either and it can be converted via XLD. The multimedia system in my car only reads .wav & .mp3 - it would be super handy to be able to batch-convert purchased music keeping the previously set folder-hirarchy.
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Originally posted by: tmkkmac
Yes, but .mp3 isn't in my official compatible format list. It is just a bonus, non-official feature (because I was tired of many emails like "XLD cannot open mp3. Why?"). Officially XLD is still a tool for transcoding lossless audio files.
All I can do now is to implement a decoder as an external plugin (like I did with mp3 before). If you want an integrated support for AAC decoding please create a new topic as a feature request. If many people agree with it then I'll consider about it.
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Originally posted by: therealt...@googlemail.com
Where do I add the feature-request?
Thanks for taking it into consideration!
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Originally posted by: tmkkmac
Create a new issue and select template.
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Originally posted by: grego....@gmail.com
Hi,
I have the same issue and I am sure that with previous XLD version I was able to select a folder containing .m4a files (created with XLD) and then convert them yo OGG files. Now, it says "no audio files found in the folder".
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Originally posted by: tmkkmac
read comment #1