I'm a new user (and fairly computer illiterate) and have creative's mediasource player. I don't know what an m4a file is, but mediasource doesn't recognize it as a valid audio file and I can't tranfer. Any suggestions? (Thanks in advance for your help.)

Various players can play m4a files. Off-hand, iTunes, QCD (after downlding a plug-in), winamp (need xtra plug-in for older versions), nero, roxio, etc. See http://www.m4a.com/ & also http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/...hp/t30054.html & http://www.analogduck.com/main/m4a

thank you. I found out that my zen touch player was not compatible with acc type files. I downloaded itunes and am converting. thanks for your help.

i herd that m4a/mp4 is an riaa scam and they can contain trackers,virruses ,logs and lots of other lovley things...

i stay away from them...

okay, thanks for the info

What a load of crap. I've never heard of m4a files having anything of the kind. I think you're confusing m4a with wma (What you should know about WMA Files)
Quote from the link I gave earlier which discusses m4a files:
"Apple Computer started using and popularizing the M4A file extension to denote the file was an unprotected (non digital rights management) MPEG 4 Audio file."
If m4a files can have viruses then so can mp3's. Find me proof to your statement than offering an opinion based on imagination.
m4a is in fact a superior compression technology format to mp3. If you didn't know that then you don't know much about what you were talking about.

Okay, if I have WMP and Nero, is there a way to convert the mp3 file to wma, using these two programs and if so, how?

I obviously know next to nothing about m4a files, but I did run a search on them and couldn't find anything but normal stuff. Not one mention of viruses, etc.

hey im just repeating what sombody told me about them ....no need to snap at me .

if thers nothing wrong with m4a , fine , thats good to know...

it may be supirior to mp3 but its still lossy compression and so i wont bother using it.

i prefer WAV files ,for many resons wich i have allredy ranted about...

Once again, is there anyway to convert a m4a file to wma or mp3 using Nero? I misspoke myself earlier, I meant to put m4a....if anyone has any ideas on the subject, inquiring minds would really like to know...thanks!