Google Music does not support .M4A (Apple Lossless) files and so Google's Music Manager skips them. How do I upload those?
How to upload the .M4A (Apple Lossless) files to Google Music
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Google Music does not support .M4A (Apple Lossless) files and so Google's Music Manager skips them. How do I upload those?
Best Answer
The easier way is probably to bite the bullet and convert them to a supported format. First, download ffmpeg -- on Windows, get the ZIP package and unpack it.
Next, open a command prompt window:
(or change to whatever directory your music is at)
This will create a
blah
folder on your desktop.This will convert the files to 320kbps MP3s. We use MP3 and not a lossless format (e.g. FLAC) since Google Music transcodes FLAC to 320kbps MP3s anyway. Anyway, this shouldn't take too much time on a modern machine.
Finally, add the
blah
folder on your desktop to Music Manager and let it upload. Afterwards, you can remove the folder from Music Manager and delete it -- the music is already in the cloud.