As I wanted to keep the music… I’ve purchased a load of songs via iTunes… same way as I’ve done for years with Beatport and Juno.
But… its seems most files once downloaded are in the format of .movpkg rather than .mp4. This is a DRM protected Apple format… and is of zero use to me as I need to export to USB.
Am I missing a trick here or is the just Apple being Apple… I’d just expected to get a load of files to do with what I please… as I’d purchased them…
According to Bing there is a download settings option where you can check which file format you’re downloading. Ill try one on mine and see what it does, im using the latest Mac OS.
Hi, Thanks… I did search for this… honest… but yes… I now found that I had lossless audio enabled in Apple Music and set to Hi-Res Lossless… setting it to High Quality, removing the download and downloading again… provides… .m4a !!
Weird that Apple dont provide their own lossless format as an option lol.
You can convert songs already downloaded to MP3 (up to 320 kps), AAC, or WAV
FIRST:
Change your Import Settings to minimize audio loss Go to MUSIC/SETTINGS/FILES/IMPORT SETTINGS then choose the best format for you.
NEXT:
In your SONGS library view, highlight the songs you want to convert, then click FILES/CONVERT/CREATE MP3 VERSION.
Sounds like a lot of trouble, but yeah, that’s Apple!
Hi, well you can change the format downloading from iTunes Or you can do what I do is use iTunes to convert files to AIFF and then save them in a HQ folder.
This is what I do and works fine. Success
Could be a licensing issue with the record labels. Remember iTunes at first had everything DRM?