Slide show and music ??

[ChrisAlli]

Forgive me, I'm new at this.

But I have a slide show created, just downloaded Photo Story 3. I want to add music from my itunes, but I'm not sure how to get them saved on my pc. I always go to itunes to listen to them. I have sample music but that's all.

Sorry I'm not too good at this stuff. YET!

 

[dr_zero]

Forgive me, I'm new at this.

But I have a slide show created, just downloaded Photo Story 3. I want to add music from my itunes, but I'm not sure how to get them saved on my pc. I always go to itunes to listen to them. I have sample music but that's all.

Sorry I'm not too good at this stuff. YET!

There should be a folder say for example My Music where Itunes stores your music files on your PC, Itunes is just opening the files you have downloaded when you listen to them.
Depending on the format the tunes are in you might be able to just have photo story look in that folder for the tunes or you may have to convert them to a format that it can recognize.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

I'm not an expert on any of this stuff, but here's my perspective.

If you bought the music in iTunes, you are going to have to jump through some hoops. The record companies assume that you are a crook and Apple is afraid that you might buy something other than an iPod, so they cooked up a scheme to make iTunes music only work with iPods. They store the music with special coding that makes it only work with your iPod (or a few other iPods).

There is a way around it. There is a feature in iTunes that lets you burn a CD of the music so that you can listen to it on your CD player. If you burn a CD, you have then liberated your music from the control of Apple and the record company. You can take that CD and then copy the songs (using any of a gazillion programs for ripping CDs) back onto your computer in a format like MP3 that slideshow software can use.

You can avoid that hassle by buying your music from a company that sells MP3 files instead of proprietary locked up formats. I think anything you buy from Amazon's music download is an MP3. That's where I get the songs I use for my slideshows (both Disney and non-Disney).

 

[InsertWittyNameHere]

I'm not an expert on any of this stuff, but here's my perspective.

If you bought the music in iTunes, you are going to have to jump through some hoops. The record companies assume that you are a crook and Apple is afraid that you might buy something other than an iPod, so they cooked up a scheme to make iTunes music only work with iPods. They store the music with special coding that makes it only work with your iPod (or a few other iPods).

There is a way around it. There is a feature in iTunes that lets you burn a CD of the music so that you can listen to it on your CD player. If you burn a CD, you have then liberated your music from the control of Apple and the record company. You can take that CD and then copy the songs (using any of a gazillion programs for ripping CDs) back onto your computer in a format like MP3 that slideshow software can use.

You can avoid that hassle by buying your music from a company that sells MP3 files instead of proprietary locked up formats. I think anything you buy from Amazon's music download is an MP3. That's where I get the songs I use for my slideshows (both Disney and non-Disney).

I have learned that Photo Story 3 does not accept the Itunes format music (ACC). What you described above is the only way I know of getting around that.

 

[ChrisAlli]

I was able to convert two songs, the rest say they are protected or something like that, so it looks like I'll have to burn a CD and go from there. I'm learning a lot through trial and error.

 

[dr_zero]

EAC is what I use to make a MP3 it works good and put is not hard to figure out

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

 

[MontanaZoo]

I'm not an expert on any of this stuff, but here's my perspective.

If you bought the music in iTunes, you are going to have to jump through some hoops. The record companies assume that you are a crook and Apple is afraid that you might buy something other than an iPod, so they cooked up a scheme to make iTunes music only work with iPods. They store the music with special coding that makes it only work with your iPod (or a few other iPods).

There is a way around it. There is a feature in iTunes that lets you burn a CD of the music so that you can listen to it on your CD player. If you burn a CD, you have then liberated your music from the control of Apple and the record company. You can take that CD and then copy the songs (using any of a gazillion programs for ripping CDs) back onto your computer in a format like MP3 that slideshow software can use.

You can avoid that hassle by buying your music from a company that sells MP3 files instead of proprietary locked up formats. I think anything you buy from Amazon's music download is an MP3. That's where I get the songs I use for my slideshows (both Disney and non-Disney).

Thanks, Mark, I've been hitting the same problem and was wondering what to do about it. I've either been ripping cd's for music or finding free mp3's (that's great but it takes forever to find anything decent).

I now have to do a slideshow to a song for a local orchestra concert that's going to benefit the zoo. They called me to tell me that they couldn't find a recording of the song so they MADE one for me this week and it's really bad.

I asked them what kind of photos they want with the music and they said oh the music will tell you.

 

[DisneySuiteFreak]

Wow. You guys are freaking me out with all the talk about ripping copyrighted music and even using it for commercial applications. None of the photographers on this board would appreciate or tolerate that happening with one of their photos. What has happened to the music industry is happening to the movie industry, and will surely make it's way into the photography industry. It's the ya can't beat 'em, so join 'em mentality. In other words 50 million other people are ripping (i.e. stealing) others' copyrighted works so it's okay for me to do that too. One day we'll wake up and realize it when only mainstream carp music is available from only the big major studios & 800 pound gorillas. Artists can't afford to keep recording music if they aren't making any money from it. Sooner or later it'll all come to a screeching halt...and then what will we have left? Last I heard, 70 cents of every itune download is retained by Apple. The rest of the 29 cents is divided up between the record companies and the artists who don't get paid unless and until the CD turns a profit. None of the 'free' ripping sites pay a dime. Music, like freedom and photography, isn't free. Someone is paying for it somewhere down the line.

 

[dr_zero]

Wow. You guys are freaking me out with all the talk about ripping copyrighted music and even using it for commercial applications. None of the photographers on this board would appreciate or tolerate that happening with one of their photos. What has happened to the music industry is happening to the movie industry, and will surely make it's way into the photography industry. It's the ya can't beat 'em, so join 'em mentality. In other words 50 million other people are ripping (i.e. stealing) others' copyrighted works so it's okay for me to do that too. One day we'll wake up and realize it when only mainstream carp music is available from only the big major studios & 800 pound gorillas. Artists can't afford to keep recording music if they aren't making any money from it. Sooner or later it'll all come to a screeching halt...and then what will we have left? Last I heard, 70 cents of every itune download is retained by Apple. The rest of the 29 cents is divided up between the record companies and the artists who don't get paid unless and until the CD turns a profit. None of the 'free' ripping sites pay a dime. Music, like freedom and photography, isn't free. Someone is paying for it somewhere down the line.

Just ripping a song from a CD is not illegal at least not yet.

I dont rip cd's for sale or trade when I get a cd I like I will though make MP3's of the songs I like and want to take on the Ipod and I dont see anything wrong with it one bit.

I also copy entire CD's for backups I buy a new cd and burn a copy for the little ones to use the original goes in the CD holder and when the CD gets scratched or stepped on they can have another one. There used to be a time when making backups of your original cd's was recommended cause stuff does happen.

The RIAA even has that these two instances will not raise any concerns.

This is from their website

However, burning a copy of CD onto a CD-R, or transferring a copy onto your computer hard drive or your portable music player, won’t usually raise concerns so long as:

The copy is made from an authorized original CD that you legitimately own

The copy is just for your personal use.

So dont freak out just yet

 

[11290]

Try this to convert your aac itunes music to mp3 for the slide show. Obviously make a copy of it first so you don't lose the original.

Inside iTunes, select the track you want to convert.
Open Preferences and on the Advanced / Import tab, select "MP3". It's probably set to AAC right now.
Close preferences.
On the top menubar, select Advanced and slide down to "Convert Selection to MP3" Then you are done.
You can put the preference back to AAC aftwards

This came from a forum on another site discussing the conversion. Can't vouch for whether it works or not.

 

[DisneySuiteFreak]

Just ripping a song from a CD is not illegal at least not yet.

I dont rip cd's for sale or trade when I get a cd I like I will though make MP3's of the songs I like and want to take on the Ipod and I dont see anything wrong with it one bit.

I also copy entire CD's for backups I buy a new cd and burn a copy for the little ones to use the original goes in the CD holder and when the CD gets scratched or stepped on they can have another one. There used to be a time when making backups of your original cd's was recommended cause stuff does happen.

The RIAA even has that these two instances will not raise any concerns.

This is from their website

However, burning a copy of CD onto a CD-R, or transferring a copy onto your computer hard drive or your portable music player, won’t usually raise concerns so long as:

The copy is made from an authorized original CD that you legitimately own

The copy is just for your personal use.

So dont freak out just yet

Yes, however, what some of the previous posters are writing about is ways to bypass the legally allowed number of purchased songs, and that is the equivalent of stealing. Itunes allows you to copy the downloaded songs to several different Ipods or computers. They limit the amount of copies to discourage people who think it's free once they've bought it, from uploading it to the free download websites. Otherwise it would be total chaos.
I make copies of CDs I legally own too. But it just freaks me out how nonchalant people are about stealing works they don't own. They are allowed to have x amount of copies for their own personal use if they bought it. That's it. Bypassing the license is illegal and is theft.

 

[rtphokie]

Thanks, Mark, I've been hitting the same problem and was wondering what to do about it. I've either been ripping cd's for music or finding free mp3's (that's great but it takes forever to find anything decent).

I now have to do a slideshow to a song for a local orchestra concert that's going to benefit the zoo. They called me to tell me that they couldn't find a recording of the song so they MADE one for me this week and it's really bad.

I asked them what kind of photos they want with the music and they said oh the music will tell you.

Wow, it's going to be nearly impossible to produce anything with those requirements. Is there a way you can back out of this?