I used iTunes to copy songs off the VBS CD, which encoded them in AAC format (M4A container). My video editor doesn’t accept that format, so I needed to convert them to mp3. After trying lots of programs that Google offered me, many of which claimed to be “free” but were really just “free trials”, I finally found the solution in a forum post. It turns out that you can do the conversion right in iTunes, totally free and totally cool.
1. Go into iTunes Preferences, and change the importing mode back to the MP3 mode you like
2. Now select the tracks that you want to change back, and go to the Advanced menu. There is an item called “convert selection to MP3“.
This menu item lists whatever the current setting is in the importing prefs.
Now, this might not be good for the audio quality, but I don’t really care: I don’t listen to music that carefully. Thanks, Hannah W!
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When I convert the songs from .m4a to .mp3, iTunes also puts a copy into my regular library. With over 1000 songs, how will I know which ones are the .mp3 and which ones are the .m4a songs to delete?
Hey nick,
You can open your iTunes music folder. To do this, right-click on any song and select “Show in Windows Explorer.” Then, you can sort the files by type. You can select all of the m4a files and move or delete them.
iTunes might sort all of the files into subfolders such as the artist and album name. You might need to do a “search” over the parent iTunes music folder and search for files of type “.m4a”.
It´s simple and work fine!! Excellent!!!! Thanks a lot!!
Genius!
Just got a new car stereo that plays mp3, but not mp4 so just what I needed. Works fine.
Cheers
I have used a similar tool called M4A to MP3 Converter, find it at:
http://www.qweas.com/download/audio_mp3/audio_converters/m4a_to_mp3_converter.htm