Does this play iTunes AAC or mp4 format music files? Or will I need to convert all the music I bought thru iTunes into mp3 format?
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Music player: Plays your favorite music content from nearly every source (MP3, WMA, secure WMA, Ogg Vorbis, Flac), AAC (DRM-free iTunes). I use WMA and MP3. I've never used MP4, so I don't know. MP3 and WMA can use the drag/drop feature to load selections from computer, or copy/paste. WMA has a better music quality if you have a musician ear. You can download the manual from SanDisk and check the specs, which is what I did. It's a simple player, but does all I want it to.
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With native (included) software, you can only play the formats listed in the description. However, with Rockbox installed (free!) you can play AAC, and MP4 files. It will not display much less play protected AAC files. I didn't have any MP4 audio files, but I loaded an mp4 video file and it played the audio from it. There's no way to play video on it that I know of (but I may be wrong). The video games that come with Rockbox are pretty tiny but most of the work well.
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I don't use itunes, so I can't answer specifically to that standard. However, if you can get the itunes into the "mp3" format I'm pretty sure this player would play them well. There is even some capability in the SANSA software that will convert. I have a number of these players and I've given them to my kids and my wife. Everyone likes them, though my kids are using their phones more for players now.
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i have several .mp4 format video files that in their media properties window show the audio is encoded with the AAC format. they all play just fine.
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If you mean mp3 yes it will. If you have music in a mp4 format on a SD card or USB stick it should play that way as well.
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No software can convert music purchased through iTunes (which comes in a format called Protected AAC) to mp3. In fact, Protected AAC cannot be converted into anything at all. The way to get around this is cumbersome, but at least it works. To get music purchased through iTunes, you have to burn a CD with the purchased music on it, and then rip the CD into the mp3 format. If you have many songs that have been purchased, this can easily take hours. In order to save the amount of CDs you go through, I recommend using a CD-RW.
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I can download podcasts from itunes & have no problem. I haven't needed to convert. I use Musicmatch Jukebox to download onto the sansa.
1771966
Drag your music to the desktop. Copy the music files that you want on your desktop to the folder of the MP3 player. This mp3 player is not compatible with itunes. I returned mine because it didnt work well.
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the reason is likely because most of your music is in .m4a format. if you convert it to .mp3 using iTunes, it should show up on your player after that. right click or control click on the title bars in iTunes and select "Kind" and that should let you know if you have AACs (m4a) that need to be converted to mp3.
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I don't think that iTunes works very well with non-Ipod MP3 players. You can use the iTunes software for Windows to convert to MP3 format but from what I have read the sound quality is not too good. I found this website that provides a good tutorial on iTunes.www.dynamicwebs.com.au/tutorials/iTunes-help.htm I hope this helps.
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Yes, but indirectly. I down loaded a free audio converter ( http://www.freemake.com/free_audio_converter/ ). I tunes uses MP4 format. Aerb uses MP3 and WMA formats. What I had to do was search my computer for the actual music files- NOT itunes library. How I did this was to go to my computer and search for "music" the actual music files showed up as one of the options. Freemake.com I liked this audio converter because once I found the files on my computer I was able to copy and paste the files into the program. Once the files were pasted I clicked "to MP3" on the bottom left of the screen. The program created a file and automatically saved the converted music into the file. Once the files were in MP3 format, I copy and pasted the music file onto the Aerb and started listening! This player does not offer a shuffle mode, but if you go into the music file and randomly add a number to the front of the name of the song (i.e.- 1 Sweet Home Alabama)the player will play the songs in the numerical order. I have 140+ songs on so far and just change numbers from time to help keep my swim interesting. Hope this helps!
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Can't answer all of the Qs, but I current use it for the Movie and TV Show portion of my iTunes library and it works very well indeed.
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This does not work with itunes. Actually NOTHING accept Ipods will work with Itunes without some hacking. Music isn't "in" itunes it's on your computer. If you have Win XP and your music is in mp3 and not Apple's aac then you can use this player. You can either use creatives included transfering software or windows media player 10 or 11.
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I don't believe iTunes supports FLAC. So far as I know, it supports only Apple Lossless, WAV and AIFF (in addition of course to compressed formats like MP3 and AAC). You would probably need another piece of software to import files in FLAC format, and I don't know what that would be. Would probably depend on whether you have a Mac or PC. You could probably find an answer on the internet somewhere. Sorry I can't be more help.
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There so many different file types. Most music is in Mp3 format- Yes it does support them; there are Wavs, which are sound clips- Yes it does support them; There are WMAs (as mentioned below) it plays them. There are movies; they are avi's and mp4's- Yes it supports them (And more). But you must first download them to your computer, then you can transfer them to your player, I have found very few files it won't play.
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you CAN use your itunes card for your mp3. It will just take a little more effort. Once you purchase music on Itunes, burn it onto a regular audio disk, (one that will play in a stereo - not mp3), then reimport the disk into itunes as mp3 (see under itunes preferences, importing. Have fun with the tunes.
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If it plays mp3 songs it will play all mp3. There is no difference .... except stories are longer than songs so you want it to stop and continue from where it was when you stopped. It is true that converting to mp3 is easy with many free converters out there. Just be careful with special encoded books like from Audible. Then you do need a device that will play 'Audible' because they have their own format and it's not mp3 or wma or anything but their own .aa files. It is Proprietary. So you need a special player (like from Sansa) to play those back. Just convert all your wma's to mp3's and you'll be in fine shape. If it plays mp3 songs it will play all mp3. There is no difference .... except stories are longer than songs so you want it to stop and continue from where it was when you stopped. It is true that converting to mp3 is easy with many free converters out there. Just be careful with special encoded books like from Audible. Then you do need a device that will play 'Audible' because they have their own format and it's not mp3 or wma or anything but their own .aa files. It is Proprietary. So you need a special player (like from Sansa) to play those back. Just convert all your wma's to mp3's and... » Read More If it plays mp3 songs it will play all mp3. There is no difference .... except stories are longer than songs so you want it to stop and continue from where it was when you stopped. It is true that converting to mp3 is easy with many free converters out there. Just be careful with special encoded books like from Audible. Then you do need a device that will play 'Audible' because they have their own format and it's not mp3 or wma or anything but their own .aa files. It is Proprietary. So you need a special player (like from Sansa) to play those back. Just convert all your wma's to mp3's and you'll be in fine shape. « Show Less
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Yes, it plays mp3 and almost any common music format. And it shows the tags of flac file.