[manto]

I have recently been purchasing music off the new iTunes Music Store. Now I want to burn them on an audio disc. I have an external Firewire Buslink CD-RW drive but iTunes says that the hardware wasn't found. So then I just dragged the music files from iTunes into Roxio's Toast Lite 5.2 and Toast converted tham. I've since upgraded to Jaguar and Toast no longer recognizes these formats. Can anyone explain the problem?
Thanks.
-manto51

[Azzgunther]

Make sure that the audio files are either .wav or .aiff files. You can figures this out by "get info" and seeing what type of file it is. It needs to be .wav or .aiff to be put onto an audio cd.
If that doesn't work, check the firewire CD-RW manufacteror's website to look for driver updates. Maybe they've got something that works for 10.2.

[manto]

Thanks. Unfortunatly the files are .m4p which are Apple's protected file format so they aren't supposed to be converted by Toast but I know Toast can do it.

[Azzgunther]

You can convert .m4a files (also called AAC files) to .aiif or .wav using iTunes. Just go into preferences to set up the conversions. I'm not sure if you wrote ".m4p" by accident.

[manto]

There are two types of formats: m4a and m4p. m4a is the regular AAC format. m4p is the same AAC format but it has been protected by a program Apple calls FairPlay. m4p formats are supposed to be protected so Toast isn't supposed to be able to do it, but I know Toast can do it because it did it before.