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Wndows media player to Apple Itunes

I have ripped quite a few CD's to my external hardrive using WMP11 as my library. They are ripped in Windows Lossless format. I want to purchase a new computer and was thinking of switching to Apple. Would this be an easy transition. Can I hook my external to the Apple and play music off it and use the Itunes setup or would this be to complicated to do. Should I just purchase another Windows PC.
bodine
pabelson
344 posts
 
Vegasears: As you say, Macs can read a PC-formatted hard drive--and that includes a lot of older Macs, not just the new Intels. But that's not Bodine's problem. His problem is that his music files are encoded in a Windows Media format, and iTunes on a Mac cannot read those files, as far as I know. That's why he needs to find some sort of conversion software.
vegasears
1,173 posts
 
http://www.smartaudioconverter.com/?id=sacgg
pabelson
344 posts
 
Smart Audio Converter doesn't appear to support Apple Lossless. But the one I mentioned above, dBpowerAMP Music Converter, might.
bodine OP
9 posts
 
I was talking to a saleman at Comp USA and he said that the mac would be able to read the windows losslees file and that I-tunes would be able to convert it to Apple lossless. I don't know if he was being honest or just said that to make a sale.I guess I-tunes will create a music library once it reads the file.
pabelson
344 posts
 
Well, I don't have the absolute latest version of iTunes, but if it can convert WMA files to Apple Lossless, it's news to me. I'd check with a Mac list somewhere before I believed it.
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