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Wndows media player to Apple Itunes

I have ripped quite a few CD's to my external hardrive using WMP11 as my library. They are ripped in Windows Lossless format. I want to purchase a new computer and was thinking of switching to Apple. Would this be an easy transition. Can I hook my external to the Apple and play music off it and use the Itunes setup or would this be to complicated to do. Should I just purchase another Windows PC.
bodine

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pabelson
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No, you won't be able to just plug your hard drive into a Mac and use iTunes. But there is software out there that should let you convert Windows Lossless files to Apple Lossless files. Check out dBpowerAMP Music Converter.
pabelson
344 posts
 
Vegasears: As you say, Macs can read a PC-formatted hard drive--and that includes a lot of older Macs, not just the new Intels. But that's not Bodine's problem. His problem is that his music files are encoded in a Windows Media format, and iTunes on a Mac cannot read those files, as far as I know. That's why he needs to find some sort of conversion software.
pabelson
344 posts
 
Smart Audio Converter doesn't appear to support Apple Lossless. But the one I mentioned above, dBpowerAMP Music Converter, might.
pabelson
344 posts
 
Well, I don't have the absolute latest version of iTunes, but if it can convert WMA files to Apple Lossless, it's news to me. I'd check with a Mac list somewhere before I believed it.
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