Monday, November 10

Bringing iTunes Library Songs into Audacity

Today, a user came to the desk with questions about mixing songs in audacity.  She said that when she imported from her iTunes library files, the audacity track was just loud white noise.

The fix is simple: convert the iTunes file (it could be m4a, AAC, mp3) to a file format that Audacity will be compatible with.  The file format that worked was AIFF.

In iTunes:
1. click Preferences
2. click General
3. click Import Settings, and choose AIFF
4. Select song you wish to convert, right click and choose create AIFF conversion

After conversion, go to Audacity and choose File>Import>Audio and choose from your iTunes library songs.  Make sure to choose the newly-made AIFF version instead of the original!

Thanks and have a great week!

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