Good program to convert itunes to MP3

ragingrhino · 03-09-2010, 12:12 AM

Like the title suggests, I am looking for a good program to convert my itunes MP4 files to MP3 format. The goal is to be able to save the files on a compact flash card to use with the PC card slot on my Navi. I tried a search with little luck. Any help?

arrivalanche · 03-09-2010, 12:33 AM

adobe soundbooth will do it. its part of the CS3 or CS4 package

NoiseGoth · 03-09-2010, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by ragingrhino

Like the title suggests, I am looking for a good program to convert my itunes MP4 files to MP3 format. The goal is to be able to save the files on a compact flash card to use with the PC card slot on my Navi. I tried a search with little luck. Any help?

Are your mp4s copy-protected? If not, you can do this directly within iTunes. Just go to options and change your encoding settings to mp3. Then right click on a file (or files) and "Convert to mp3".

If they're copy protected, then you'll need to use something like Audacity to record them as wav, then encode them to mp3. That would have to happen in real time, so it would take quite a while.

windbell · 03-09-2010, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by ragingrhino

Like the title suggests, I am looking for a good program to convert my itunes MP4 files to MP3 format. The goal is to be able to save the files on a compact flash card to use with the PC card slot on my Navi. I tried a search with little luck. Any help?

Here is a tutorial to - convert itunes files to mp3, that may be helpful

Willie Mack · 03-09-2010, 08:22 PM

itunes. theres an option to convert your files to mp3 inside the program options.

Hawn Si · 03-10-2010, 11:10 AM

I use OJOsoft for all my media stuff.

ragingrhino · 03-11-2010, 12:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Willie Mack

itunes. theres an option to convert your files to mp3 inside the program options.

I was reading in their help menu, that songs purchased on iTunes are protected. So only my own media can be converted?

NoiseGoth · 03-11-2010, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by ragingrhino

I was reading in their help menu, that songs purchased on iTunes are protected. So only my own media can be converted?

Depends when you bought them. iTunes removed DRM on their songs a while back (last year?). Anything purchased since then should be able to convert without problems directly within iTunes.

Pharmer · 03-11-2010, 07:07 PM

If your song is DRM-protected, you can always burn it to a disc and then rip it back to the computer. Change the settings to rip as an MP3 ahead of time, and then you won't even have to go back and convert it.

ragingrhino · 03-11-2010, 11:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Pharmer

If your song is DRM-protected, you can always burn it to a disc and then rip it back to the computer. Change the settings to rip as an MP3 ahead of time, and then you won't even have to go back and convert it.

Nice! That is a good idea, but holy crap I have a lot of music, that might take a long time. Everytime you convert a song to MP3 does it always make a copy?

Pharmer · 03-12-2010, 06:35 AM

Yeah, that's the only thing that sucks is you'll have two copies of everything. Also, unless you specify a different file location, Itunes will put all of the songs right beside their original in the main list. If I were doing it, I would change the settings to save the converted MP3 files to a specific folder somewhere else on the computer to sequester them so as not to clutter my Itunes folder.

***gotsnodooks*** · 03-12-2010, 07:10 AM

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Originally Posted by ragingrhino

Nice! That is a good idea, but holy crap I have a lot of music, that might take a long time. Everytime you convert a song to MP3 does it always make a copy?

yeah...just save the new music to a different folder and don't link it to your itunes account.

Bama_Si · 03-12-2010, 09:10 AM

I had a program (Noteburner) that would create a virtual cd-drive on your computer. When you went to itunes you would burn the songs to a disk, choose the virtual drive to burn them to, and it would actually just write them to the hard drive. Worked like a charm.

rebelde · 03-26-2010, 08:55 AM

To convert itunes files to mp3 you can use the following media convertor:
http://www.tuneraft.com/
It converts both protected and unprotected audio/video files and is very easy to use.

maccolar · 03-30-2010, 11:17 AM

I always use this media converter to convert iTunes to mp3, it works pretty well for me.

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ragingrhino Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Cave Creek, AZ Age: 26 Posts: 313 Ryan iTrader: 5 / 100%	Good program to convert itunes to MP3 Like the title suggests, I am looking for a good program to convert my itunes MP4 files to MP3 format. The goal is to be able to save the files on a compact flash card to use with the PC card slot on my Navi. I tried a search with little luck. Any help?

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rebelde Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 1 iTrader: 0 / 0%	converting itunes to mp3 To convert itunes files to mp3 you can use the following media convertor: http://www.tuneraft.com/ It converts both protected and unprotected audio/video files and is very easy to use.

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arrivalanche Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Woodland Hills, CA < Las Vegas Posts: 1,103 Aaron iTrader: 0 / 0%	adobe soundbooth will do it. its part of the CS3 or CS4 package

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Pharmer Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Nebraska Posts: 136 Eric iTrader: 1 / 100%	If your song is DRM-protected, you can always burn it to a disc and then rip it back to the computer. Change the settings to rip as an MP3 ahead of time, and then you won't even have to go back and convert it.

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Pharmer Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Nebraska Posts: 136 Eric iTrader: 1 / 100%	Yeah, that's the only thing that sucks is you'll have two copies of everything. Also, unless you specify a different file location, Itunes will put all of the songs right beside their original in the main list. If I were doing it, I would change the settings to save the converted MP3 files to a specific folder somewhere else on the computer to sequester them so as not to clutter my Itunes folder.

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Bama_Si Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Birmingham, AL Age: 40 Posts: 523 iTrader: 0 / 0%	I had a program (Noteburner) that would create a virtual cd-drive on your computer. When you went to itunes you would burn the songs to a disk, choose the virtual drive to burn them to, and it would actually just write them to the hard drive. Worked like a charm.

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maccolar Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2 iTrader: 0 / 0%	I always use this media converter to convert iTunes to mp3, it works pretty well for me.