Batch Converted from AAC to MP3

Hello All
I need some help. I have all my music collection on Itunes and Ipod ( around 90gb ). I am gonna need to converted my whole library to MP3 in an external HD. Which software would you guys recommend ?
I am looking for a software where I can select the entire library and let it do all by itself. I dont want to select album by album, set the output location every time I need to convert a file, album or a band.
Any help will be appreciated.

you can try versiontracker as suggested. you can also try using itunes for this although it might be a little tricky. first of all itunes won't let you convert DRM protected tracks you bought at itunes store. it also dumps the converted files right in the library. this might be unpleasant with as many songs as you have. Not sure what's the best way to deal with that. you can try moving the whole itunes library to the external first and do conversion there.
anyway. to do it in itunes you first go to itunes preferences->advanced->importing and set importing format to MP3. Now slect any number of songs in itunes, control-click and choose 'convert selection to mp3. you can do it to the whole library if you want but it will error out on protected titles. as I said it will dump the converted songs right back into the library.
you can then open itunes library folder in finder and search for mp3 items.

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