Any program out for your axim x3i that will play songs but will also play aac files?

[mretrade]

Must get these itunes songs on my ppc.

[Alex276]

Here is tool that converts m4p to mp4. I haven't looked for an mp4 player for ppc but there's probably one out there. I'm sure there is a conversion program that will convert from mp4 to mp3 or wma as well.

http://www.audiosense.org/forum/showthread.php?p=347



Alex

[Mike1138]

The best thing I can tell you right now is to email the company that make pocketmusic. I emailed them a while back and they said they were considering it and asked me if there were others that would be interested in aac playback. I think if enough people requested it from them, they would support aac.

HERE is their contact info.

[chuckpo]

burn a CD from itunes and then make an MP3 from the CD!

chuck

[viking99g]

I too am wondering how to get acc to mp3. I was thinking about getting an iPod at one point, but then I realized that my X5 could do the same thing if only I could get the acc over to mp3. For now I am burning to a CDRW and then converting that to mp3. If anyone has a better idea I'd love to know it! (I'm looking for something that is free).

Even if you found a player that handled AAC, you'd still need to deal with the DRM. Short answer on this, "it ain't gonna happen".

Apple wants you to buy an iPod and if you don't have one, they really don't care.

There was an artical on ExtremeTech about AAC:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1525987,00.asp

and a follow up artical:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1549873,00.asp

I believe AAC from Apple (downloads) has a DRM formatting called Fair Play, and you can't JUST convert it to MP3. All you really can do is write to a CD, then rip that to MP3 (or whatever format you'd like).

http://iplay.40th.com/faq.html

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- What's aac? Or mp4? Or m4a?

This is similar to mp3, but often makes files with much better quality from a given bitrate. For example, 128 kbps often sounds fine in aac (mp4, m4a are the same, but with a different transport) while mp3s at 128 kbps usually do not. Some say the best encoder for aac is Apple's iTunes. Find v4.2 if you can. 4.5 is the current iTunes application as I write. This is available for Windows, for one. It actually creates .m4a files. I do NOT recommend iTunes for mp3 encoding; I repeat, do not use iTunes for mp3 encoding, use it for m4a (aac) only. LAME will get you better bang for your bits with mp3 (but iTunes AAC/m4a gets you far better bang for your bits). I use AAC (m4a) for all my stuff, unless I need guaranteed gapless (album) play, then LAME 3.96 (mp3).

- Can I play m4p files, from iTunes music store?

No. These are DRM'ed and won't play. You can use something like the HYMN project (search the web) on your own purchased tunes (i.e., keys to which are on your machine) and it converts, without any generation loss, to mp4 which iPlay client does play, and plays very well. I'm over there picking up things pretty often -- mostly old stuff I can't find anywhere else, but new stuff, too. (The old stuff sounds better, quality-wise, simply because most recordings today are gain-ridden [mastered at too high a level to sound louder than the next CD]. I first noticed this in 1994, with Madonna's Bedtime Stories. It (CD mastering quality) has gone downhill since.)


- iTMS tunes have cover art. How do I see them?

Move to the Options panel. Set LGX to "CA - Load cover art always" [then tap the green check]. Now, whenever you're in one of the [ i ] panels (stats, memory, or ID3) the cover image pops and remains for the first five seconds of play. To re-show it for another five, tap the album name in the ID3 panel. This applies not only to iTunes mp4 files but most mp3 files using an ID3 PIC or APIC image (jpeg or png). The tune must fully fit in the CACHE (very easy to do) or no cover art is shown. iTunes, the app, makes it easy to add images to m4a or mp3 files; you can get cover art scans from Amazon's music store. Any size scan can be used; scans too large for the nominal 236x220 area are scaled to fit. If you add your own, use 200x200 images, jpeg; 15 KB or so will do. Note that iTunes will encode in huge PNG if you drag+drop an image, so always drag+drop (or add) a filename.jpg instead. You can add a jpeg file to all selected files [such as an album] with one drag+drop in iTunes. See the cover art screen shot below.

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