User talk:Jamielang77

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1 Welcome!
2 Converting iTunes music to ogg format for use with Wikipedia.
3 Question re: Harvest (band).
4 Orphaned fair use image (Image:Harvest-album cover.jpg)
5 Orphaned fair use image (Image:Morning Sun-album cover.jpg)
6 Orphaned fair use image (Image:It's Alright Now-album cover.jpg)
7 Orphaned fair use image (Image:Send Us to the World.jpg)
8 Orphaned fair use image (Image:Voices-album cover.jpg)
9 Orphaned fair use image (Image:Only the Overcomers-album cover.jpg)
10 Orphaned fair use image (Image:It's Alright Now-cassette album cover.jpg)
11 Orphaned fair use image (Image:Carry On-cassette album cover.jpg)
12 Orphaned fair use image (Image:Let's Fight (For a Generation)-album cover.jpg)
13 Orphaned fair use image (Image:Holy Fire-album cover.jpg)
14 Orphaned fair use image (Image:41 Will Come-album cover.JPG)
15 Re:Harvest (band)

[edit] Welcome!

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[edit] Converting iTunes music to ogg format for use with Wikipedia.

This is the design of iTunes music - they are "burdened" with a Digital Rights Management system called FairPlay; in other words, they digitally restrict you from doing certain things, such as making derivative works.

There are a number of technically possible ways to convert iTunes-based m4a to other formats, such as ogg; this includes burning a CD and re-ripping it, as well as some DRM removal programs (See the FairPlay page for more details). However, the legality of using these programs is a topic of intense debate, and there's quite a bit of controversy over whether you can use iTunes music for any purpose other than your own listening. Therefore, use at your own risk.

-- Znode ^(talk) 23:52, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Znode,

Thank you for your reply. I should point out that the music I have on iTunes that I'm planning on putting on Wikipedia was not purchased from iTunes. I just used iTunes to put the music on my computer, and it automatically put it in the m4a format.

Thanks again for your help,

jamielng 01:13, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

In this case, try dBpowerAMP for easy transcoding.

-- Znode ^(talk) 01:38, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the recommendation,

jamielng 15:51, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question re: Harvest (band).

I see that you noted that I'd already created the article "Harvest (band)".

Is it to be reviewed to determine whether it meets the criteria for inclusion in Wikipedia?

How can I get this process going? Or has it already started?

Thanks for any help,

jamielng 01:43, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Usually we don't review articles one-by-one is such a fashion. It's usually that someone just comes across the article, and if it looks non-notable, it's tagged for deletion somehow. In any case, they have a mention in CCM, so it's probably not an immediate candidate for deletion. I would encourage you to find some other notable mentions in media outside independent of the band. Also, I have to point out that it's not really standard practice to upload clips of all their songs onto Wikipedia. You might like to reconsider that. Hope this helps, and welcome! Patstuart^talk|edits 01:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Harvest-album cover.jpg)

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