Windows Media Player 12 Problem

Hey, I haven't had Windows 7 Long, but over the last past week i have beein oraganising my Itunes library and thouroughly cleaned out and correctly labeled all my music with correct Artist/Album/Album art (Artwork is embedded by the way with a few handy tools i have found).

But, the problem is, I wanted to be able to use Windows Media Player 12 too, cause in my opinion it seems to use less resources and doesn't slow down as much BUT!...
Over atleast 50% of my music is in the Itunes format .m4a... And i seem to be having problems importing them to the library.
I know that WM12 is meant to have Compatibility and i have tested this by renaming a .m4a to the extension mp4. And after doing that it seems to add fine to WM12 Library.

But is there any way around this of not having to rename every m4a i have got with mp4???
And if i do have to resort to doing this, will this affect Itunes by any chance?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! I am sure others have come across this but gave up in frustration. xD

StruggleZ!

Cool Cool, So Do you think there is any other way around this though? Codecs or something i am missing? I just find it weird that WMP12 Hadn't just implemented m4a Support as well?....

Ok, My next question then is, Would there be an easy way to rename all my music files within my Music folder to rename the extension to mp4 from m4a? Through cmd.exe or something, I am no computer whizz or anything but i do know what i am doing with a fair bit of guidance. Cheers for your help btw!

Thank you very much,

I think i am incorrect in what i said, I don't think WMP12 actually adds .mp4 to the library like i thought, it adds it to the "other media" category...

I hope Windows come out with an update for this i guess. Anyway, thanks for your time on trying to help me!

Cheers!

Jacee said:

Download Shark007's codecs Shark007's FREE Codec solutions - Windows 7 codecs

If choosing this solution there are 2 things you need to know about M4A files. 1st thing, on the Help TAB, choose to associate filetypes to the Windows players. 2nd thing, M4A can contain 2 different types of audio, AAC, and ALAC. The itunes files contain ALAC and to play those in the Windows players there is a checkbox on the bottom right of the Audio TAB.