Converting .m4a

Rattlehead_ie

Guys Im sure this has been asked before,but I jsut cant find it. I need a program for OSX that will convert from .m4a to something anythign that Itunes on OSX can read \ play \ add to its library. Im trying to convert the files that WERE on my Windows machine to Mac

Sad Professor

iTunes can play m4a. Unless you mean m4p? Which are protected iTunes music store files but you can still authorize them for another computer.

Urban Weigl

I'm playing m4a files on my Mac without a hitch. Both iTunes and QuickTime.

Rattlehead_ie

Someting v strange then, anytime I dbl click on them it opens ITunes on the Movies rather than Music tab? No found no information being displayed nothing. All v strange. If it helps, these where and still are m4a files that were originally on my Windows Machine, Im not about to format that machine for I transfered these files onto a DVD and onto the MAC, now they dont play in anything, although they are associated with ITunes

Sad Professor

Try adding them to your library instead of double clicking.

Rattlehead_ie

No not that either? This is strange, stupid q? tere is no difference between m4a windows and m4a OSX??

Sad Professor

hmmmm strange. Is itunes up to date?

This is a shot in the dark but you could try renaming one of the file types to .mp4 (which is what itunes seems to think it is) and then naming it back to .m4a.

Also try opening the files with quicktime.

Rattlehead_ie

Ok,so I did that changed from m4a to mp4 and then converted back,still didnt work, now on that, I have noticed that the ICONs for all the file show up as MPEG4 (maybe that matters maybe it doesnt???) I think at this point its going to be out with all my cds and a long night of copying from CD

K.O.Kiki

Tried playing them in VLC, or playing them whilst they're named .mp4?

Sad Professor

Have any luck getting them to work, Rattlehead? or did you have to re-rip?