Can I export iTunes files in an MP3 format to a thumb drive so that I can play them on my car stereo?

Is this even possible? I know dragging and dropping the items from iTunes onto the drive doesn't work. Anybody know if/how it can be done?
Thanks.

Some corrections needed (but I use an older iTunes and no longer bother to try to keep up with newer versions or Apple doings):
Unless Apple has changed things back to the way they were 5 years ago, your music purchases are DRM free and you can now convert AAC to MP3 within iTunes (unless your files are from DRM days).
Again unless Apple has changed things, creating mp3s from AAC files in iTunes will not replace the AAC. It will create new files (make sure iTunes preferences are set to create mp3). In iTunes you have to display the "kind" column to distinguish because your AAC original and mp3 copy will appear as duplicates since they will have similar tags.
You say dragging doesn't work. Please clarify. No files copy? The files copy but won't play? Dragging from an iTunes playlist to a drive will normally copy files (it does with iTunes 7.5) unless the drive is locked. Files will not play if your car doesn't support the file format you try (dragging AAC files will put AAC on the drive which is still not universally supported), or if you format your drive to an unsupported format. That should be specified by your car's player but likely will not support Mac formatted drives and you should probably leave the FAT32 format that many drives comes as. If you formatted to Mac then you should reformat the flash drive back to DOS.

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