Music problems

drkfaery started this discussion · 4/18/2009

Hi all. Anyone know how to import music onto your computer to use in Windows Movie Maker? Any help is appreciated. 🙂

5 replies

Rouge_LAmour · 4/18/2009
Would love to say drag and drop from iTunes. Should have some import ability. I'm on a Mac so have no idea apart from trying an import.
drkfaery · 4/18/2009
Yeah I tried that and it said I needed a code. Weird you think since I purchased the music they would let me use it. My husband is a Mac user also and thinks my PC is lame. Right now I agree! ❓ Thanks for responding 🙂
Rouge_LAmour · 4/18/2009
Yeah I tried that and it said I needed a code. Weird you think since I purchased the music they would let me use it. My husband is a Mac user also and thinks my PC is lame. Right now I agree! ❓ Thanks for responding 🙂 Steal your husbands Mac!!! Load the song to iTunes, capture the footage and edit in iMovie then post!! Or make him to it for you.
drkfaery · 4/18/2009
You read my mind! He'll be posting my April challenge in the morning, or else! 😀
Foxy_Rei · 4/18/2009
Over on the task menu on the left side, there should be an option to import music. Any songs that are in the default iTunes format (m4a I think) won't import into WMM. However, any songs that are in mp3 format that you put in iTunes yourself (not bought through iTunes and not imported from a CD) WILL import. When you click on the add audio file option in WMM (or whatever it is), you can browse for music. Go to My Music > iTunes > iTunes Music and browse that way. Most songs ending in the .mp3 file extension will be able to import. However, if you used iTunes itself for loading the music they won't work. I myself use another program for obtaining my music 😉 , then when I have downloaded the songs I then move them to the iTunes Music folder and import them into my library. If you do it that way, the original mp3 file will stay intact. What iTunes normally does is when you find an audio file elsewhere in your computer to import, it makes a copy of it in the m4a format and saves that one to the iTunes Music folder. However the original file will need to stay wherever it is on your computer to use it (i.e. - importing a file from your desktop will require the file stays on your desktop for it to play, even though iTunes made its own copy of it) But if you save that original file to iTunes Music to begin with, all it does is move it to another file within iTunes Music and doesn't make that new copy of it; keeping the mp3 intact. Do you follow??? 🤓 *Note - iTunes isn't compatible with .wma format and will make a new converted copy to the m4a format, but still needs to keep that original file for it to play. I'm also kinda a slickster when it comes to audio... If it's saved in a format I don't like, I use a program called Audacity that can record any audio playing through your computer. It's kinda like the old cassette tapes and recording off the radio - just play the song and hit record on the program. It records the song, then you can turn around and save your recorded audio in whatever basic format you would like - mp3 included. I'm sure there are conversion programs out there, but I like my method better and the program comes in handy in other ways ():-) The only disadvantage of this program is that ANY sound coming from your computer will record in the song. I have a couple songs with IM chimes in them and another the beeping from my volume being turned up...