iTunes m4p support in Live?!?

crawford · Post by **crawford** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:42 am

I bought some tracks from the itunes music store and was irritated to find out that the "protected" m4p files do not open in Live. You can not convert these types of files at all, and the only workaround I know is to Audio Hijack Pro them into an .aiff file, thus making them non-protected files anymore. However this has to happen in real time. Anyone have a better workaround?
I searched the forums and couldn't find ONE topic AT ALL relating to this issue!?!?
WTF

nobody has run into this problem? there must be a solution that i'm not thinking of!

thanks!!!

/s

pepezabala · Post by **pepezabala** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:50 am

well, if it needs to be "realtime", you can just route itunes/mediaplayer into live and record clips from your bougth tracks. for osx use soundflower to connect itunes with live.

Lo-Fi Massahkah · Post by **Lo-Fi Massahkah** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:01 am

Why do I get the feeling that you're blaming Ableton when it's Apple that are using a one-of-a-kind-non-standard-protected file format?

-Mikael

crawford · Post by **crawford** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:14 am

Lo-Fi Massahkah wrote:Why do I get the feeling that you're blaming Ableton when it's Apple that are using a one-of-a-kind-non-standard-protected file format?

-Mikael

you're getting the wrong feeling, 'cause I'm not blaming anyone. I'm just trying to see if there was a quicker workaround because I was surprised to come upon this minor stumbling block in file type recognition. It didn't occur to me that this would be an issue. It's not that big of a deal, i don't mind sitting down and listening to my new tracks while they record into an aiff.

also, I havn't had good success with the Soundflower trick yet, but will try again.

thanks for the responses!

/s

crawford · Post by **crawford** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:17 am

crawford wrote: the only workaround I know is to Audio Hijack Pro them into an .aiff file, thus making them non-protected files anym
/s

I should clear this up: recording something into Audio Hijack Pro happens in real time, which just takes longer than simply converting one file type to another file type.

hope that makes better sense now.

Lo-Fi Massahkah · Post by **Lo-Fi Massahkah** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:20 am

Sorry. Guess my gripes with Apple's one-of-a-kind file format came out on you.

-Mikael

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:29 am

Why do I get the feeling that you're blaming Ableton when it's Apple that are using a one-of-a-kind-non-standard-protected file format?

because companies who are able to acknowlege how much better AAC to MP3 is starting to implememnt the possibility of importing without a fuss (like torq), that's called evolvement in my eyes and Live is clearly sleeping in that department. come on only wave, aiff and mpš format support even in Live6 (and they claim to be a pro apps) is a bit thin in our days, don't you think?
i personally DO expect from Live in the future to handle a ton of different audio file types, even the most odd, even only one in a million used file type. there is not even yet a SDII suport... what is this all about?

not bitching about Live, just acknowlegeing still existing shortcomings.

Cryptic UK · Post by **Cryptic UK** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:14 am

live 6 has non protected AAC support.

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:06 pm

Cryptic UK wrote:

live 6 has non protected AAC support.

i am a Live6 beta tester and haven't discovered it yet, if it is so, then i apologise.

Korhan · Post by **Korhan** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:17 pm

It also supports FLAC, a no-loss compression format. FLAC usually brings wav files down to 60% with more compression on files with a lot of silence.

Cryptic UK · Post by **Cryptic UK** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:21 pm

SubFunk wrote:Cryptic UK wrote:

live 6 has non protected AAC support.
i am a Live6 beta tester and haven't discovered it yet, if it is so, then i apologise.

make sure there not protected AAC.

Hardtoe · Post by **Hardtoe** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:58 pm

TO get rid of iTunes Copy protection quickly, just burn a cd and reimport the tracks to itunes - voila = no copy protection in about 5 minunted for a whole album...

Nixon · Post by **Nixon** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:05 pm

(OT)

@ hardtoe

MacBook 2 GHZ 2 GIGS RAM
Motu Ultralite

what kind of latency are you getting with this setup (with what sample buffer)?

Sorry to go off topic guys!

crawford · Post by **crawford** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:26 pm

Hardtoe wrote:TO get rid of iTunes Copy protection quickly, just burn a cd and reimport the tracks to itunes - voila = no copy protection in about 5 minunted for a whole album...

and there you have it! thanks man!!

/s

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