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cutter311 · Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 16

Ok, I give...I've been trying for 3 days to beat my music library into submission. Reading this forum, reading the FAQ. Re-reading this forum and FAQ...I give. I'll ask for help, sorry

So here's the scoop. I have 600 some odd purchased iTunes songs. All these have been done on a Mac w/ varying rev levels of iTunes.
I back my library up to an external USB HD connected to my desktop. I have iTunes 7.0.2.16 and QTFU6 on there also, and this is where I am running my conversion from.
FU6 works on most(?) of my songs. But I get a mix of the following errors on the rest:

Processing "G:\musiclib1206\Smashing Pumpkins\Gish\09 Window Paine.m4p"
Error while dumping
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "QTFairUse6.pyo", line 464, in dumpTrack
File "dedrm.pyo", line 270, in __init__
File "dedrm.pyo", line 210, in __init__
File "dedrm.pyo", line 79, in __init__
MP4Error: Bad atom <GIBBERISH HERE> at 005AA4B5: length was 659941367 bytes, consumed 14 bytes
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Processing "G:\musiclib1206\Spoon\Gimme Fiction\07 I Summon You.m4p"
Error while dumping
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "QTFairUse6.pyo", line 464, in dumpTrack
File "dedrm.pyo", line 270, in __init__
File "dedrm.pyo", line 210, in __init__
File "dedrm.pyo", line 76, in __init__
OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int

Any thoughts or info will be greatly appreciated. Anything glaringly obvious that I should be beaten for missing will also be appreciated.
I tried to work thru it, I just don't see any ryhme or reason why some of the songs can be converted from .M4P to .M4A and not the rest.

Thanks for the time!

cough syrup · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 517

cutter311 · Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 16

cough syrup · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 517

Ok, just wanted to make sure, the error didn't look like it, but when you said you used a Mac for it I was a bit befuddled.

cutter311 · Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 16

cough syrup · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 517

Hmm... Did you retry those songs (maybe in a different order)? Sometimes that helps.

DrmBytes · Moderator Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 2999

Did we try the suggestion in the readme?

cutter311 · Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 16

DrmBytes · Moderator Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 2999

sderenzi · Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 287

I believe I know what is wrong!

I think, and I'm just guessing, but let me see...

Your iTunes library, is every file in a subfolder exactly as sorted when you bought it? What I'd try doing is a search for all m4p's, then drag all 600 songs into a single folder and use something to rename them all according to their tags. I use The GodFather but prior to that I chance all their extensions to m4a since The GodFather won't read m4p files. Take care though you'd only be renaming them not removing or changing any tags, otherwise your entire library will become corrupt.

Now that's one idea right there, perhaps the subdirectory's are somehow interefering with the conversions.

Another idea is maybe you installed iTunes over another version, in which case I'd say your only recourse is to reinstall XP and try again, alas that isn't entirely logical and I bet you'd end up with the same results.

Umm.... Also I have a real idea now, group your songs into folders of 100. Convert them 100 at a time, then see which give you trouble. Look for any particular reasons they might.

Also don't keep the HookType set to 1, I believe all this does is disable the QTFairUse checking to verify the copy, thus it works but still looses a few frames in the end! If I'm wrong tell me, but part of me thinks I'm right :-D

Now ummm Uninstall python script if you installed it. Uninstall iTunes if you have it installed.

Also friend don't you think that this may, just somewhat, be an issue with iTunes settings? Go through and disable everything you can think of, I bet it may work.

Finally I'm a loser virgin, help :-Z~

cutter311 · Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 16

DrmBytes · Moderator Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 2999

Well that's no fun. I'm not sure I have any other ideas at the very moment and I sure as hell can't make sense of anything sderenzi just spewed forth...

cutter311 · Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 16

awright...no more coffee for sderenzi. A little history...I reinstalled XP a few days ago. iTunes was actually reinstalled on my PC AFTER deciding to try and convert to my itunes library.

Something odd (or not...I dunno), it looks like every time I run FU6 it does a couple more songs. Sometimes 1, sometimes 5.

I guess I can keep running it until they are all done. I may do a search of *.m4p and move all those to a seperate file, then to *.m4a and keep running FU6 until they match...yoiks =)

Thanks for the help. I appreciate ya'll trying.

DrmBytes · Moderator Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 2999

Ugh, that rather blows to have to do that. You don't have any screwy playlists or anything like that do you? Man I wish I could think of anything to help you on that one. That's a lot of songs to have to do that to.

cough syrup · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 517

Hahahaha... I think it was something similar to...

Incorrect characters... But this was solved I think, and none of those characters in the error messages are non-alpha-numeric. So that's out the window.

And the other one I picked up was the uninstall and reinstall...

And finally a "check your settings" part... It's a good set of backup plans. Re-Installing XP sounds kind of... Well... I'm not gonna go there. Hopefully igorsk will have a clue.

But then again, maybe if we invert the flux capacitor and implant a rot-24 encryption onto the signal going to the named capacitor thus enabling us FREE MUSIC! hehe, limewirez! Just kidding sderenzi.

And just be happy you can actually free up your music. My iPod does not like DRM... Ironic actually.