Convert iTunes to MP3 - Comments Page 3

GREAT!
Greetings from Amsterdam

I had to put some music to a cd for a funeral and they could only play mp3 and I didn't know how to do it, thanks to you it was so easy! Greetings from somebody else in Holland.

Thanks a Million!! I was able to turn my ITunes songs into MP3's. Now that I have 2 copies of each song I would like to delete the other one but am afraid to. At a glance I can't tell which one is which. Any suggestions?

EDITOR'S NOTE: From the article:

"The only downside is that now you have TWO copies of that song -- one in the AAC format, and one in MP3 format. If you click on File / Display Duplicates, then turn on the column labelled "Kind" you'll be able to quickly see which songs exist in both formats. Right-click in the column header area, and you can turn columns on and off. The "Kind" column will say "Purchased AAC audio file" (iTunes format) or "MPEG audio file" (MP3 format)."

It works and I can use it again anytime I want in the future, thanks!!

There is a way to convert all your purchased iTunes AAC files to MP3 without downloading or buying any program to convert it. I will try to simplify the steps below, but I am in a hurry...
1. Open iTunes, click edit, then preferences, on general tab click on import settings and change the Import Using to MP3 encoder
2. In upper left corner there is an arrow, click on arrow and then click on "show menu", then click on the "view" tab and click on "show sidebar"
3. Under Library click on "music", then you will see a column "Name", right click on it and look for "Kind" and "Artist" and make sure you click a check mark next to them. This will now create "Kind" & "Artist" columns if you do not already have them.
4. click on the Artist column to put them in artist order, then look for the song under the artist (not the song name and you will find your song which will also show it is in AAC format.
4. highlight the song, then right click and hit "Create MP3 version" and it will create the same song to MP3 and you will now have 2 copies of that song, one in AAC format and the other in MP3 format.

Hope this helps!!!

Havacyn - your idea is great. I have an iPod which I use, but have lost music many times. It just vanished inside my iMac, usually when I do an IOS upgrade. I use iTunes to load music. I have been getting rid of all my apple products. I am now using a Samsung Galaxy 3. I have a 16G memory card in the phone. I want to put my music in mp3 format. I want to put it on this memory card to play thru my phone, and to pull it out when I get a new phone….and move the music w me. If I make duplicates of most of my songs in my iTunes library (about 3500 songs I would like to convert to mp3) will I still be able to use the iPod. Will they load to the iPod if I now change the iTunes import preference to mp3? Will this screw up my iTunes library? I just spent hours deleting duplicates and locating lost ("!") songs in my iMac.

I have been trying to download these things for months. You are awesome!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

You are a lifesaver! I can't thank you enough.

Thank You, Thank You,Thank You, Reloading the CD in MP3 format into itunes, my MP3 player finally has music on it

Several years ago, all my music (about 1,500 songs) was suddenly not on my ipod touch anymore, and the thing is it was own personal music burned from my own extensive collection of cd's. I called iTunes and they told me they could "rescue" my music for a $75.00 fee!! Really?! I started surfing the net and found a site which gave a 30 day free trial to download my music from my own personal cd's onto my ipod touch without going through iTunes. I had to work super hard to get it done in the free trial period, but I got it done. Now, I want to transfer the music to a card so I can put it in a new sport mp3 player I got for my grandson, but I have no idea where to even start. I'm 61 years old and not that computer savvy, but I can usually get through things with detailed instructions. Any help would be most appreciated, and thanks so much in advance!!!

I have been doing some research on this exact thing, and I thought I read that you can create a playlist and then convert those songs to mp3. This sounds like it might get away from the duplicates issue if you can indeed do this and then copy that playlist to an SD card.

This was super helpful! Thanks!

Theres a great piece of free software called Mp3 my Mp3 and records anything your able to hear on your computer. It also works to record streaming services. I also recommend using a Mp3 encoder device. I've got an old Audible product that takes analog in and encodes into several formats including mp3 which is very handy and I've seen them on ebay or Amazon for cheap.

The world should be warned that APPLE ITunes is a major problem. I have over 10,000 songs downloaded from my CD's and it is next to impossible to make a flash drive to play in the car. Unfortunately I had most in Windows and for some stupid reason listened to all the Apple Bull S*&^( Everyone should be warned Apple ITunes S U C K S!

Thanks a lot Mate it really resolved my concerns and frustration....cheers

Music is part of our life. So most of us want to demand our digital rights. But Apple music is a big problem. I came across iTunes DRM music converter (http://macsome.com/itunes-converter-mac/index.html). It can convert DRM-Protected iTunes to MP3 easily.

This was very informative! Thank you,
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Thanks for your sharing. As for me, the best iTunes to MP3 converter is DRmare Audio Converter for Windows, which not only supports to convert DRM protected iTunes songs but also can stream Apple Music, Audible audiobooks to MP3. Then you will able to play them on any device without limitations.

Avdshare Audio Converter is a professional MP3 to iTunes converter which can easily convert the MP3 file to iTunes supported AAC, Apple Lossless, etc. What is better is that, Avdshare Audio Converter can also convert iTunes unsupported audio formats, like WMA, FLAC, OGG, MP2, RM, etc to iTunes supported audio formats.

I really want to share Tunelf Audio Converter with you. Really great and charming! Via that, I download my favorite tracks from Apple Music to my device. What's more, it help you to convert Apple music to mp3 and then I could listen to them on any device.