iTunes File Formats: AAC Protected .mp4


I have just opened my new HiFiMan 601 DAP in search of higher, portable fidelity.

The player seems to recognize WAV files - my main motivation for abandoning the iPod, as I would like to load up the player with WAV files for critical listening or favorite music for the gym.

However, it does not seem to recognize mp4 files.

I was hoping, for more casual listening and Audiobooks, to also transfer my iTunes library, which although I am still searching several external hard drives, generally seem to be in the format as described above.

Can I convert this file format to WAV or another format which could more easily be read by this player?

Or is this the proprietary format which requires an iPod and iTunes?

Thank you,
cwlondon

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Kbarkamian

That sounds like a relatively straightforward solution - thank you.

Generally, they are files (and also audiobooks) that I downloaded from iTunes.

I don't have a huge library, and in the absence of a WAV option, I think I generally used so called "Apple Lossless".

I do want to figure out this puzzle before loading up the new HiFiMan player for a test drive at the gym.

Experimenting tonight using EAC, I notice that WAV files ripped from CDs using EAC are in fact "tagged" easily enough, at least with the track title information.

However, it seems if I copy WAV files as a test to the HiFiMan player, they seem to play back only in alphabetical order.

Therefore, I would have to manually create "playlists", by adding sequential numbers to the beginning of the filenames?

If so, that could almost make me go back to an iPod.

But of course if convenience were my goal, I wouldn't actually be a self respecting "audiophile".