Convert iTunes to MP3 Format - Comments Page 9

Thankyou! method 1 although time consuming worked wonderfully!! i have the chocolate phone from verizon and was dissapointed when I found out itunes was not in the correct program. But when I read this i tried it and it worked.

I haven't seen much on here for actual Mac users. I have iTunes on a G4 iMac and I just bought a cell phone that will play mp3s and naught else. Any tips for the actual Apple computers?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Did you check out the link to QTFairUse?

Has anybody used soundtaxi to go from 7.2 iTunes to MP3? I bought it and can't make it work.

The tips here work great for converting m4p to mp3. Is it pushing the envelope to ask whether it is possible to burn/rip to/from HDD-resident CD images with iTunes? In other words, can the burn/rip process be used in conjunction with a CD device emulator which writes/read to HDD files instead?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Yes, the process should work the same for real or virtual/emulated CD drives.

One thing that gets me, every where I read about converting itune music in MP3 format, a lot of people said 'it's easy, just burn onto a CD then put it back into the system, (just as we didn't know that). It's not easy, it's a pain in the neck doing it that way and cost more money buying CD's all the time to do it that way, then you have to delete the original from the music store. It cost AUD$1.65 plus $AUD2.00 per CD, when you work it out I might as well just go out and buy the CD itself or the single. I'm looking for a way of converting to MP3, so if anyone can help it would be great.

EDITOR'S NOTE: First off, I found CD-R disks at an Australian retailer (Office National) for as low as AUD$0.40, so they can be much cheaper than you think. And here's an alternative... a virtual CD burner such as NoteBurner (noteburner.com) eliminates the need for CDs altogether!

I found an easy way to apparently free up iTunes files. Just change the file extensions from m4p to m4a! As for converting to mp3, not a good idea, at least not directly. If you do it, be sure to use a high bitrate for the new mp3.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Changing the file extension does not remove the copyright protection (DRM) from the file.

My son has ipod v. 7.? on his XP Media Center and when I've asked him to get a song for me he does and burns it to a cd. Viewing the cd in Explorer on my XP Home machine shows that it is burned to the standard play-in-any-cd-player format. Pardon my lack of jargon. At any rate, I can rip that puppy to mp3 or wma formats. Quality is sufficient for these old ears.

Makes no sense to me why one would convert all their music to that format without backing up the originals. Aside from that, excellent article, I'm downloading iTunes purely to see what I can do with my files, as well as some of the other programs mentioned (as I have rogue m4p and m4a files I need to convert, for my Toshiba Gigabeat will not support them). Will get back to you with what works best for me :)

i have a big problem i just got my new motorazr from cingular and it has an mp3 player on it!! i bought the $40 music package with came with the usb plug to connect my phone with the computer.

i also have and ipod and have bought over $150 worth of songs on itunes. when i click and drag the song into the phones folder it shows it's there but it's not in my phone!! so i read you could take c.ds and do something with them and turn it into mp3. next thing i did was bunt a short little cd with like 4 songs from itunes software when it imported the cd it imported it as mp3 but now it won't let me drag the song into the phones folder!! WHAT DO I DO?? PLEASE HELP!!

Great article, but what about those of us who want to take a DVD, or DVR video file, or MPEG and strip out the audio and listen to it on our MP3 players?

EDITOR'S NOTE: The ImTOO Video to Audio Converter can do that.