Hi All
I am completly new to the world of mac and have had my new Imac for about 3 days. I have had some big problems mainly in terms of me not understanding the new system but I do have a word of advise for anyone moving from WMA to Apple Music formats.
I had amassed 150gb of music and I would say that around a good third of this was music i had ripped using the windows lossless wma format. I had struggled and struggled to try and get my new mac to work with these wma files but understandably why would it want to!
I found though that Itunes for the PC does enable straight forward conversion from wma formats including lossless to apple aac and my copy of Itunes on the pc detected that the file output would be apple lossless. So I have had to setup itunes on my pc laptop- connect the external drive let the pc version fo Itunes do the batch conversions and then unplug the drive and plug it back into my Mac. Now the time per song conversion was about 5-10 secs and if you consider I had around 5,000 songs in Wma lossless it took a fair while but it was worth it and now i am all singing and dancing.
I would be interested if other people tried other ways to do this.
Also what is with the whole installing programs on my mac????
Is it that easy? I think years of Windows abusing my senses has left me with an inability to accept easy processes.
I am completly new to the world of mac and have had my new Imac for about 3 days. I have had some big problems mainly in terms of me not understanding the new system but I do have a word of advise for anyone moving from WMA to Apple Music formats.
I had amassed 150gb of music and I would say that around a good third of this was music i had ripped using the windows lossless wma format. I had struggled and struggled to try and get my new mac to work with these wma files but understandably why would it want to!
I found though that Itunes for the PC does enable straight forward conversion from wma formats including lossless to apple aac and my copy of Itunes on the pc detected that the file output would be apple lossless. So I have had to setup itunes on my pc laptop- connect the external drive let the pc version fo Itunes do the batch conversions and then unplug the drive and plug it back into my Mac. Now the time per song conversion was about 5-10 secs and if you consider I had around 5,000 songs in Wma lossless it took a fair while but it was worth it and now i am all singing and dancing.
I would be interested if other people tried other ways to do this.
Also what is with the whole installing programs on my mac????
Is it that easy? I think years of Windows abusing my senses has left me with an inability to accept easy processes.