Convert iTunes to MP3 Format - Comments Page 16

I am trying to make a picture slideshow with music using windows movie maker. i have convirted my music from itunes to MP3, but when I try to import it into the movie maker, it still says its invalid. ANyone know how i can fix this?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Since Movie Maker is a Microsoft product, it may pretend that the only valid format for music files is WMA. Try converting your MP3 to WMA. See http://askbobrankin.com/convert_wma_to_mp3.html for options.

Thank you so much! It's been so frustrating when I can find a song only on iTunes.

i have tried this but itunes has updated it and it wont work. please help!

EDITOR'S NOTE: Several options were given... which did you try? Jhymn no longer works, but there are alternatives.

THANK YOU SO Much!! YOU ARE MY HERO! I have this audition for a play and i needed to put the iTunes songs they gave me onto my mp3 so I could practice on my vacation. Your tips helped sooo much! I'll tell you if I get the part or not. :)

I used Noteburner to create MP3's from my iTunes M4P's. When I play the MP3, the sound is much less than the M4P at the same volume setting. Is this normal?

Just a note to the editor regarding his response to the inquiry about degradation converting between compressed formats:

These are not lossless formats, neither the ITunes AAC format or the MP3 format. When you are dealing with a lossy compression format, information is lost that can never be regained. You start with a file already compressed in one of these formats, then you convert the file to another lossy compression format in which you will lose yet more information which can never be regained. Degradation does absolutely occur here. The degree of noticeability of this degradation will certainly vary depending on the ear of the listener and the system it is played on, and one conversion of this nature will not degrade quality to a level unsatisfactory to most listeners, but it exists nonetheless.

I tried out for my play today thanks to you! Hopefully I'll get the part!!!! I did very well on my song because I could listen to it on my mp3 player instead of the icky CD! Yay! Thank You!

I just burned my itunes songs onto a CD-R, then opened the files with itunes7. Only one song was successful converting it to an mp3, the other songs, which have a "lock" icon on them give me a message on itunes saying: "protected files cannot be converted to other formats."

WHy did one song work (this file does not have the 'lock' icon) and all others did not convert? I am using itunes7, is this a problem?

EDITOR'S NOTE: That's odd. I would think that the songs would lose all the DRM info when burned to the CD. Did you burn a music CD or a data cd? You need to burn a music CD and choose the option to Convert Selection to MP3. Check the setting in Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Burning if you have a problem importing tracks from the CD.

Thanks for all you advice. I have so very lost all my respect for Apple and ALL of their products after I realised that most of the tracks I bought in iTunes shop can not be converted to mp3 and plaid on my portable players. I bought them for running and listening to in the train, ... not for depending on the computer and iTunes! Damn Apple! I am so upset.

Oh and MacBook and iPhone are eradicated from MY wishlist forever.. Life is too short to deal with arrogant firms and their cumbersome products.

I have tried a number of solutions for converting my purchased iTunes AAC files to Mp3 but in all cases the sound quality loss was unsurvivable... Grrrr...

I have tried Audacity + Lame encoder, MP4-Mp3.com, Tunebites demo version... for various reasons all were a waste of time and I would rather not waste more time on this.

How bad is the loss of sound quality using the Hymn application? I have been told it is not possible to install an earlier version of iTunes after authorising with iTunes 6 (and above). As Hymn does not work with iTunes 6 and above... is there a way to work around that? Are there any pitfalls to beware of?

EDITOR'S NOTE: I would assume the sound loss factor would be the same with Jhymn.