Cd burning. . .converting from mp3

I can burn CD's with out a problem. BUT my problem is converting my iTunes music from AAC. Every CD I've burned plays on my dvd player but not in my car. This is what I've tried thus far:
1)Preferences - Advanced - Importing - WAV encoder
2)Preferences - Advanced - Burning - Audio CD
3)Created a new playlist, burned CD, and guess what it doesn't work!! Is there something else I should be doing??
Windows XP

OK with store bought songs from iTUnes, what you have to do to convert them to MP3 is first goto edit>Preferences>advanced tab>Burn sub tab and make sure its set to "Audio CD" If not change it to that and hit OK. Now burn the songs to a blank CD.
Once they are burned to the CD, reinsert the CD. When it shows up in iTUnes you can rightclick each track, hit get info, and manually enter in Artist, Song Name< Album ect ect. If all songs are from one album and/or one artist you can rightclcik the CD name on the left, in the source list and enter the artist and album for all track, then all you have to to is rightclick the first track, enter the name of the song, then hit the next button to goto the next track and enter its name. Once all info is entered, hit the Import button in the top right corner of iTunes (Taking for granted your import settings in preferences is already set to import in MP3).
With purchased music, the only way to convert them is burn to CD, then reimport them to the PC. Once thats done you will not have to do this again to convert it to something else

Similar Messages

Converting From Mp3 to Wav and also dividing a song.

Is it possible to convert an mp3 to .wav and then split the entire song into 10-second wavs. If there is a way, please share. Thank you. I'm using Quicktime Pro

Nathan, welcome to these discussions.
Open the .mp3 file with QT Pro.
Set the "in and out" (selection markers) to the ten seconds you wish to convert and use "Copy" from the Edit menu.
Open a new QT Player window (Control-N) and then Control-V (paste).
Choose "Export" (File menu) and then choose Sound to Wave.
Repeat for all the conversion you want to make.

Converting from MP3 to AAC

Several thousand of my songs are in the MP3 format. My question is twofold: first, is there that big a difference in sound quality between MP3 and AAC? I do not care about space restrictions, as I have plenty of room on my 80GB. Second, if I do begin to cnvert these songs to AAC, is a second copy put on my computer as well as in iTunes? If so, where can I find it, as I cannot find duplicates of the ten or so that I have already converted. Thanks in advance. Just want to know if it worth the time and effort to make the conversion.

Converting creates a second file in the format you are converting to. The original file is not changed so you end up with two copies of the song, once in each format. However it's always preferable to re-rip from the original uncompressed format rather than converting from one lossy format to another.
For reference, you'll get an extensive comparison of the various formats on these pages:
Record Store Review - Quality of AAC v MP3 Part 1
Record Store Review - Quality of AAC v MP3 Part 2

Converting from MP3 to AAC not working

When I try to convert any of my songs in iTunes I get an error message saying: "An unknown error occurred (0x77686174)." This only happens when trying to convert to AAC. I have tried to convert to AIFF, and Apple Loseless Encoder and it works. I have also tried the default 128kbps and many others. Can anyone help?

When I try to convert any of my songs in iTunes I get an error message saying: "An unknown error occurred (0x77686174)."
hi killbrad!
hmmm. i've seen posts on this topic. see:
http://ipodgarage.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=494&sid=79e818827474b53cfdab3c8b619 aa0e2
i've also seen toonz say (my fault for any misreading of her post) that it's a QT error message saying something like "codec not found". so if the workarounds aren't helpful for you, we could try a careful standalone QT reinstall. see:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1157322#1157322
keep us posted.
love, b

Converting from Quicktime/Midi audio files to MP3 format

Before I upgraded to Tiger, I could use itunes to convert into mp3 form all the Quicktime Midi files that my chorus director emailed to me. Then I burned them on to cds so that everybody in the chorus could play their part in their car on the way to work and learn it really well.
Well, now when I go through the exact same steps that are on the website (go to preferences, go to advanced, change encoder to mp3, etc etc) and itunes says that it cannot convert the file to mp3 because of "unknown error (-50)."
Any ideas on how to get around this other than trashing my Tiger and going back to Panther?

Before I upgraded to Tiger, I could use itunes to
convert into mp3 form all the Quicktime Midi files
that my chorus director emailed to me. Then I burned
them on to cds so that everybody in the chorus could
play their part in their car on the way to work and
learn it really well.
Well, now when I go through the exact same steps that
are on the website (go to preferences, go to
advanced, change encoder to mp3, etc etc) and itunes
says that it cannot convert the file to mp3 because
of "unknown error (-50)."
Any ideas on how to get around this other than
trashing my Tiger and going back to Panther?
I bought and downloaded quicktime Pro and used it to convert my MIDI files. First you have to find your MIDI file on your HD. Then drag it into QuickTime. Then "export" the file and in the export window select aiff as the format. Save it to your HD. Then drag the aiff file into iTunes and it will play in iTunes (6.0.4 is the version I'm using) It will also burn to a CD from within iTunes. If you only want to play the file from within iTunes, you can skip the QuickTime conversion, and simply drag and drop the MIDI file from your HD into iTunes - iTunes will play it but won't allow the file to be burnt to a CD.

Why won't my playlists convert from aac to mp3

Hi,
Never had to use the forum before as I've always previosuly been able to figure most stuff out that I needed to do, but I recently converted my whole music library from AAC format to MP3 (so that I can burn an MP3 disc to play in my car) with no problem using the "Advanced" tab and "Convert to MP3 format" tab.
(I've also changed my settings now so that all downloads are set to MP3 as well to stop this happening ever again!.)
However, I then tried to do the same for my playlists, but it just doesn't work for those using the "Convert to MP3 format" facility - even though it doers actually give the impression of doing so. i.e. It appears to be converting the songs and I even get a confimation tone when it's suppossedly finished converting the playlist, but the playlist still shows it's "Kind" as AAC, and hasn't converted it at all!
The only way that I can find to do it is to delete the playlist (after printing out a copy of the playlist) and then manually re-creating the whole playlist again by dragging each song individually from the library! Which I obviously don't really want to do as I've got a lot of playlists and that would be very laborious and would quite frankly be a ridiclous thing to have to do again (especially after doing it already for the library).
Am I missing something here, expecting too much or just being thick?? Any one have a solution for this please?

Thank you, absolutely brilliant, I knew there had to be an easier way to do this!!! And also thank you so much for the really quick response too!
It took me less than a minute to do this for the first playlist and I'll now easily be able to do the same for all the other playlists - saving me potentially hours if I'd had to do it using the other way.
In case anyone is unaware, there is one further little tip once you have converted the playlist from AAC to MP3 and sorted by "Date Added". Press and hold Shift, then highlight (the first song) and scroll to the last song (which will then highlight all the songs that you've just converted) and then simply drag them to a new playlist - voila, job done!

HT1349 I have a large Windows iTunes library (18k+ songs, 650+ movies, 2.4K TV shows) and since upgrading to iTunes 11 files are disappearing from my library. Some music files re-appear in the cloud which means I have to re-download and re-convert to MP3.

iTunes 11 is rapidly becoming a disaster for me. I have a dedicated Windows 7 machine running iTunes to service 3 Apple TV's, 2iPhones, 2iPods, and an iPad. Itunes 11 is very sluggish with my large library and has now started 'losing' files to the cloud. This means that music I purchased in 2005 is being removed from my library and subsequently seems to become available as a ne cloud download. This may well be because I convert all ACC files to MP3 and delete the ACC (my ears are too old to care about the reduction in quality). Either way, it's detrsoying my playlists and means I have to re-download files.
Does anyone know how to stop this? I have no interest in the cloud (my library is too big and contains hundreds of ripped CD's and Vinyl records that can't be matched).
Thanks

Because back in the early days very few devices supported AAC so converting to MP3 allowed me to use iTunes and other devices (like a $1000 dollar MP3 player with a 3.5" hard disk drive that pre-dated iPods ) as well as my gen 1 and 2 iPods. I can't hear the difference (I'm old...) so the files being smaller is still an advantage (even though I have 64Gb iPods and iPhones these days. Anyway, the major issue is iTunes deleting the MP3's and messing up my playlists because the file it downloads just goes in the library - not the original playlists. The secondary issue is how do I know it's truly replacing all the files it deletes. It's just scary and I don't like it.
BTW, I'm not anti-cloud and in fact use iCloud extensively with my iPhones/Apple TV's for photo sharing/backups but iCloud is useless for media sharing. I have just over 2tb of media data shared on my iTunes server (and remotely accessible on my iPhone/iPad using WebDav to my home server).
...and none of my media is pirated. I have crates of vinyl, CD's,DVD's, and Blu-Rays along with thousands of iTunes store receipts!

Is it possible to burn playlists in MP3 format from i tunes to an external drive such as a USB stick. I can only find options to burn to a CD

hi there,
New to these forums and communites and was just trying to get feedback on this question...is it possible to burn playlists in MP3 format from i tunes to an external drive such as a USB stick. I can only find options to burn to a CD.
If anyone can help[ that would be great.

Melofthesea wrote:
hi there,
New to these forums and communites and was just trying to get feedback on this question...is it possible to burn playlists in MP3 format from i tunes to an external drive such as a USB stick. I can only find options to burn to a CD.
If anyone can help[ that would be great.
Mel, Sure, although that is "copying," not "burning." It is easily done, as follows:
Insert the USB stick into your computer, and open it up so it looks like a folder. Highlight the songs you want in iTunes, and drag them into the folder.
If you normally run iTunes in full screen mode, make it smaller so that you can do the drag.

Files converted from m4a to mp3 are not displaying correctly in feed

hi; i recently produced my first show in garageband (after using a bunch of other audio apps in the past), exported to an m4a file, and converted to mp3 in itunes, but it is not showing up as an audio file in my feed.
the feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/wellroundedradio and my blog posting on it is http://wellroundedmedia.blogspot.com
is there something you need to do when converting from m4a to mp3 in itunes to make sure the settings are all correct so it will be enclosed as an audio file? i have tested other mp3 files in the feed and they are working fine.
thx, charlie
==
charles mcenerney
host + producer
well-rounded radio
http://www.wellroundedradio.net
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

greg-
thanks. yes, i think that's what has been so tricky about this. i add a link to an mp3 in blogger, but feedburner doesn't add this particular show as an enclosure, so it's not updating in the feed. can't seem to find where the origin of the problem, though...is it blogger, feedburner, or the mp3 file or...?
charlie

How to burn/convert VIDEO_TS from Mac The Ripper??

Ok, I just used MacTheRipper to rip a DVD with Video_Ts and Audio_TS folders.
Now my question is, how can I convert these into a disk-image, or how can I now burn this to a DVD? Thanks in advance

I don't want to use Toast since it's not a freeware
But it's worth every cent of it! I have been using it for a long time and can't even remember the last time I stuffed up a disk, burning DVDs Music & MP3 CDS, photo cd's data etc.
I have tried a couple of freeware and shareware programs that are supposed to be ok, but spent most of the time producing drink coasters. if there is one program I think everyone should fork out for it would be Roxio Toast.
maybe someone can recommend a freebie, but I will always swear by Toast and think it has easily paid for itself already.
Cheers

Converting to m4a from mp3 song length error

Converting to m4a from mp3 song length error. Smaller & cuts off end of song

"If it's not too late delete itunes off your c
drive and reinstallit on d"
No need to uninstall iTunes from the
main C: drive and install it to another drive. In
fact, it is a bit safer to keep the iTunes
Program installed on the same drive with the
other programs.
iTunes operates as a database of information for your
music files. The actual music files are stored on
your PC, not within iTunes. iTunes keeps absolute
references of the music file location and other
information in its database file. This allows iTunes
to use music files from any location on the PC:
different directories/folders on the main HD, another
internal drive, and external drive or a network drive
(or any combination of the above). Each song
reference has a specific and hardcoded path so iTunes
can find and play (or sync) it.
Make sure you only change the location of the iTunes
Music Folder, rather than the iTunes
program. Move all the music files to the D: drive.
I respectfully disagree with your claim. I've been running itunes on a dedicated music drive for over a year and had not one issue. iTunes can still allocate a file from any one of my computer's 5 hard drives. Keeping it where other programs or OS are installed makes no difference at all. By installing iTunes on the music drive, the iTunes music folder is automatically where she would want it.
Self Built Windows XP Pro 1.7TB, 2GB, RAM, 939 AMD 4000+

Converting from format AAV to MP3

I would like to convert some of my music in my iTune library from format AAC to format MP3 and then load the new format on a memory car SD.
Is it possible? and if yes, can they be stored in the iTune library and later be transferred on the memory card?
In a few steps what is the procedure
Tank you in advance

Forget my question, I have found the answer.
What I had to do is select my pieces of music and right click and select convert to MP3
had previously change the parameters in the preferences/import

Error message when converting from mp4 to mp3

Three songs I just purchased won't convert from mp4 to mp3, although all of the other songs--including one from the same album these 3 are from--converted just fine. I keep getting "an unknown error occurred" message. How can I convert these 3 songs? Should I exit the iTunes store and reload it (in effect rebooting the store)? Or what?

Purchase only iTunes Plus songs, change the default encoder in iTunes to MP3 from the General section of its preferences, right-click the songs, and change them to MP3.
(39167)

Ok...WMA ebook from the library converting to MP3...is it possible??

Scenario...my library lets you download ebooks to your computer. There are only 500 or so MP3 downloads for the Mac and a million WMA ebooks for Windows. Any possible way to convert the WMA files to MP3 so I can listen to them on my ipod?

Hi,
dBpowerAMP will convert from acc to mp3.
Tony

Converting from WAV to MP3 using Creative MediaSou

I am trying to convert from WAV to MP3 using Creative Media Source Version 3.30.35. The program says it is converting the file to MP3 but when it has finished and I examine the properties it still says the file format is WAV. Can anyone shed any light on this, thanks?

It doesn't change the original file - it creates a new file in the new format. Check where your file destination is set to in the Audio Converter screen.
PB

Cd burning. . .converting from mp3

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for