problems burning downloaded files to burner
 

can any help with this problem?i have a g4 mac 9.2.2 and i can download mp3 files to my shared file no problem,but sometimes when i drag the song or add the song to the cd it bounces off and/or the disc just wont accept the song i want,i have run a system test on burner which is a iomega 52x24x52 speed,i has been fine until recently and the burner i functioning correctly,can anybody shed some light on why i cant burn my songs??

itunes protected, or ownership issues
 

itunes allows you to download music off the internet. When you do this, you are only allowed to use that downloaded song to create a set number of CD's. They end in the file format m4a. They are protected, and thus you can't use it! Im not sure if this is the case, but do a "apple I" to get the info. on the CD. If the "Kind" is MPEG-4" then its protected. Also while your there, check the Ownership & Permissions. It should say you can "Read & Write".
Hope this helps.

thanks alot for the reply will post here if i get a result

Hmm, if this is true about the protection on the .m4a files then you might wanna do the following, even though it can be a great hassle, especially if you have a large number of music files (like me...):
go to iTunes' Preferences and click Importing. Change the importing codec to .mp3 and hope that this one doesn't have some funky protect stuff on it too. Now (and here's the frustrating part), re-import every single song that is in .m4a format.

thanks alot murasme,but i dont have itunes,do i need it?i have an external iomega writer/burner,i downloaded itunes and failed to see the point of it i couldnt search for or download anything i could only listen to the radio tuner,sorry if im being vague,but i didnt fully understand the m4a.thing how can u tell the file is in that format before it has finished downloading?i cant tell if its protected or not whilst downloading.can anyone post a link or explain this for me many thanks for your help great forum.


spoon

also what does i tunes have to do with downloading music from limewire?excuse my ignorance.

spoon

Aaaaah. So you didn't have iTunes to begin with... You said you had a Mac so I figured you also had iTunes.
Ok, iTunes doesn't have anything to do with Limewire other than the fact that LW's developers were kind enough to include a iTunes support function in LW.
As for the .m4a format, you can see it when you dld a song via LW under one of the columns that displays the extension of the file that you are about to dld or are already dlding (in the Search window). Generally, when you look for music in LW it will be in .mp3, with occasional .wma here and there as well as .ogg.
Now, fi you want to check what kind of format the files you already dlded are in, then simply find the file in the Finder and click it's name: you will be able to alter the name at that piont, but more importantly, you will be able to see the full name of the file, as well as it's extension (the very last letters after the .)
Since you dlded iTunes, if it works well (it's probably a cracked version) you can reencode the files from .m4a to .mp3 format by going to the preferences and changing the codec, as I said earlier. After that, if you wish to keep iTunes, then you can enable LW's iTunes support which will automatically import any songs you may dld later in one of iTunes' playlists, which will keep your files organized and close at hand.
iTunes is not necessary in order to use LW so it's a matter of personal choice.

superb,i will report back here if all goes well!thanks alot murasame!!

itunes for Mac OS 9 is a free Apple download

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120073

Ah ok, I didn't know that last one.