FRIGGIN Itunes store!!!
Hey guys, I have an issue. I purchased two songs from the itunes store, and it is not allowing me to import them into Serato. On the bottom it says could not import, quicktime is not installed.
The files are .m4a
What can I do to make these work in my Serato?
Thanks
i don’t use serato. but it seems like pretty obvious that serato depends on quicktime. why else would it throw you this error message? so install it.
additional info–until recently, on the windows platform, the itunes installer included quicktime. not anymore. so if you reinstalled your system and/or apple software recently, you might not have noticed that quicktime is missing.
its only for the two songs that I got off the itunes store though, everything else works fine.
right. do you have AAC/.m4a files besides those two which play fine?
Are these files DRM protected? I’m fairly sure that you can’t play DRM-protected files with DJ software.
All my other tracks are .mp3 from beatport, so I do not have any other protected files.
I am unsure how do I find out if they are DRM protected?
^^^ your answers strongly suggest that quicktime is not installed on your system (or the installation is corrupted).
music bought from the itunes store isn’t drm-ed unless you bought it years ago.
You could just convert them to mp3s right?
If they are drm, burn them to a cd ten rip them from that…
Hmm I just re downloaded and re installed Quicktime from apple’s website, and it still gives me the same error. How can I convert these files to MP3 without it effecting the tracks quality?
convert them to mp3 through itunes.
You cannot convert these files without affecting the track quality (see here).
Right click on the song in itunes and select convert to mp3. Make sure your import settings on iTunes is set to mp3 > custom > 320kbps
erm
and iTunes hasn’t used DRM is an age …
your point being? ofc you can convert. but not without quality loss. that’s just what happens when you re-encode using a lossy format as both source and target.
I was merely using your post to point out the side effect of Max Ones argument … that’s all …
hehe ok misunderstood sry..
in any case, i cannot imagine the best answer we have for OP is to re-encode his AACs. i’m not a serato guy myself but, afaik, SSL has been supporting AAC for at least 3 years. it cannot imagine it will be too hard to get it to work. @OP: maybe post what setup you are using? should make it easier for your fellow serato users to help…
what evs… files should already play but OP sounded panicky. mp3 convert is a possible solution is all.
320 mp3 is fine (see 1,000,000 other threads) plus he said his beatport purchases are mp3 not WAV so he ain’t fussed
OT beatport now do AIFFs… which I buy now and is nice 
NEVER convert AAC to MP3, ALWAYS use pure 320 MP3, WAV, FLAC, or AIFF files, and if you must use AAC, the original file will sound alot better then a transcoded MP3, so id call serato and tell them to add support for m4a if it doesnt work, but i kinda think thats good they don’t let em work hahahaha, 320 MP3 FTW
So I right click the song in Itunes and I do not get an option to convert to Mp3. Am I missing something?