Converting m4a to mp3 on MacOSX
I only have a mp3 player in my car and I wanted to play the songs I bought at iTunes Music Store. Took me a little while to find out, but eventually I found the way to do it (or a way, at least):
- Install ffmpegX, follow their steps.
- Copy all the songs you want on one CD to a single directory.
- Run the following command:
find . -name "*.m4a" -exec /Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/ffmpeg -i {} -acodec mp3 -ac 2 -ab 128 "{}.mp3" \; - Wait until done.
iTunes: DJ sucks
I hate the new iTunes DJ, which came with the 8.1. It keeps putting songs I just listened its list. And I mean that like, three times the same song, one after the other. Even an options that says “make sure the list in iTunes DJ never contains the same song twice” would be enough to fix it. The previous Party list option was far better at it.
And don’t tell me the chances are very small, I have a music library of 16.26GB (that’s more than 3200 songs), plenty of music to choose from. If it was truly random, it should haven’t every 5 songs or so.
