Change Music File Format

I tried to convert my selections to MP3, however, a pop-up said that the files were protected. The selections are all authorized to play on my PC so how come it would not let me convert the files?

I will reply to my own post from what I found searching the forum. Thanks for noth'n...
The store purchases are in protected AAC format, this is ALL the store sells. Your importing preferences only affect the CD's that you rip yourself, not the store purchases. If you need the store purchases in another format, you will have to burn your purchase to an AUDIO CD, use the audio CD to re-import into iTunes in the desired format, mp3. Welcome to discussions!
Jims, store purchases are in protected AAC format & because of the DRM, they can't be directly changed to mp3. The only way to change your purchase to mp3 is to burn your purchase to an audio CD, use the audio CD to re-rip into iTunes as mp3. All music download sites will have some type of DRM on their downloads , the most common being protected WMA which is not compatible with iPods.
You adjust what format you need by setting your importing preferences in iTunes. So once you have the audio CD of your purchases, you will set your import settings in iTunes to mp3, then import as mp3 using your audio CD. If you are importing your own CD's, change your import setting to mp3 initially & there should be no need to convert an m4a file to mp3. Just to make sure you understand, store purchases have a file extension of .m4p, if you are importing your own CD's in AAC format, their files extension wil be .m4a.
Thanks for your help. I tried what you said, and I'm still having trouble. Here's what I did:
First, I tried burning the CD as an audio CD. That worked fine, but I couldn't import them back into iTunes. It couldn't "see" the files. (The computer only can see .txt, .xml, and .m3u files - not .cda files). I can click and drag them okay, but then they still aren't the right format.
Then, I tried to burn a CD as an MP3 CD, but it said "None of the items in this playlist can be burned to disc." Didn't say why. The help box says, "If your playlist includes songs in formats other than MP3, they will not be burned on the CD." Well, if the only way to get them to be MP3 is to burn them to a CD, and I can't burn them to a CD because they're not MP3, then what do I do??
I'm getting really frustrated. There's probably a really simple step-by-step instruction for this, I just can't find it. Please help!
You are on the right track.
Take the Audio CD that StarDeb had you make. Put that back into the CD drive. iTunes should automatically see it and take you to the CD import screen (just like importing a commercial CD). From there you would import the tracks using the MP3 settings you need.
You do not use the 'File=>Import' feature within the iTunes contextual menus.

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