easy music converting for android

lllii · Feb 5, 2012

I just got a Samsung Captivate, love it so far. I'd love to get a lot of music onto it to simplify my life a little, so I'm not always carrying around both my phone and my iPod.

I have about 50 gb of music on iTunes, obviously more than is gonna fit on my phone. It's all in Apple Lossless though, so it's taking up more space than it would if it were mp3s.

Anyway, I just want a simple and easy way to convert a lot of music into a lower bitrate format so that I can get it onto my phone. (Apparently there's an app that will play Apple Lossless, but I seem to be too technologically unsavvy to get it to work, plus I don't think I'll be able to fit much unless I convert it.)

I don't want to convert the files I have - I'd like to keep the Apple Lossless files and create mp3 copies. Does anyone know of something good, free, and simple that will do this for me?

Also - what's the best way to get music on to an Android phone? Is it just to mount it as a hard drive? Where should I drag the files, anywhere?

Cola56 · Feb 5, 2012

As I know ,the song from itunes store are protect with Apple's copyright,so I don't think we can drag the songs from itunes to Android phone directly.

lllii · Feb 5, 2012

Cola56 said:
As I know ,the song from itunes store are protect with Apple's copyright,so I don't think we can drag the songs from itunes to Android phone directly.

You misunderstood... my songs aren't from the iTunes store. They're from CDs. I've just imported them into iTunes in a format called Apple Lossless, so that I can play lossless audio on my iPod.

I'm just looking for a simple .m4a (ALAC) to mp3 copy-and-converter

mikedt · Feb 6, 2012

dBpoweramp Music Converter DBPoweramp Music Converter works very well. it's trial but works for 21 days, should be enough to convert all your music.

Cola56 · Feb 6, 2012

lllii said:
You misunderstood... my songs aren't from the iTunes store. They're from CDs. I've just imported them into iTunes in a format called Apple Lossless, so that I can play lossless audio on my iPod.

I'm just looking for a simple .m4a (ALAC) to mp3 copy-and-converter

Sorry about it,now I know what you mean,so you can try Format Factory to do this which is easy and free use.Good luck.

Adauth · Feb 7, 2012

mikedt said:
dBpoweramp Music Converter DBPoweramp Music Converter works very well. it's trial but works for 21 days, should be enough to convert all your music.

Dbpoweramp ,MediaMonkey or Doubletwist, should get the job done.

fightingirish · Feb 12, 2012

There are a lot of programs that will do that. Check out Media Coder. It's free and will convert to a variety of formats.

And the great thing about Android is that it recognizes formats other than mp3. I use ogg vorbis for mine (encoded as low as 160k), and the sound quality is amazing. Your Android will also be able to read m4a/aac files very well. Both formats sound better than mp3 at lower bitrates. I would avoid AAC+ (HE-AAC) for sound files, which allows for better quality at very low bitrates. My phone really choked up on those.

If you need tags (though iTunes should have already taken care of that on the lossless files), TagScanner works great.

As for getting it on the phone, I use the old school drag-n-drop method. By default, music files can be found in the "media" folder on your SD card.

Ram0283 · Feb 13, 2012

Can't belive no one has pointed this out yet, but in your case, the best converter would be iTunes itself!

Just change your import settings to mp3...select the songs you wanna convert, right click and click "Create MP3 version". It'll convert the song while keeping the previous file. After converting, go ahead and delete the mp3 songs from itunes itself, but when it ask if you want to move them to the recycle bin or keep them, select "keep files", this is just so when you move the files later, you won't be left with duplicates in itunes.

Then go to wherever you have itunes set to store your music and move the mp3 files to a new folder(for organisational purposes) and leave the .m4a files where they are. Sounds complicated, but its easier then it sounds.

chanchan05 · Feb 13, 2012

Samsung Kies (basically Samsung version of iTunes) also converts before transferring.

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