Convert to MP3 from AAC

how do I convert file in iTunes from AAC to MP3 for use elsewhere?

Note that this method only works on unprotected AAC files, as might result from ripping a CD.
If you have (unwisely) purchased any Protected AAC files from the iTunes Music Store, they cannot be converted. All you can do with them is use iTunes to burn them to an audio CD.

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Convert Selection to MP3 (from AAC) freezes PC and forces soft re-boot

Caused by another error in I Tunes. Since the latest upgrade, all CDs that I imported created AAC files rather than MP3 as I had previously selected. If you select an albums worth of tracks to convert to MP3, after a few tracks, the PC hangs (including mouse and Keyboard) and the only option is to hit the reset button.

this has happened to me before. all u do when u try to burn in mp3 and some do burn. u know wat u do. select those that have not been converted and do them again. this is how i do mine. move the curser to point at which the conversion stopped, then press the shift key while trying to select the rest of the songs either up button or down, it should be down cus those that have not been converted will always be down. so press shift +down curser and until u get to the last song. right click the songs and press convert, it wil start burning again. and that is all.if u find problem let me know.

Convert to MP3 from ACC

how can I convert file in iTunes ACC format to MP3 format for use elsewhere

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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!

Fuzzy output when I convert mp3 to aac (to make audiobook)

That's pretty much it.
I have imported CDs of audio books that I want to put on my iphone.
I am converting the mp3s to AAC - then changing the extension from mp4a to mp4b so that it is filed in the audio book section.
But during the conversion the quality of the track goes from clear to fuzzy. (like white noise in the background)
How do I get round this?

but unfortunately I cant file them in the audiobooks section like that.
Why not? That's exactly what changing the *Media Kind:* does. Puts them under Audiobooks.

Converting mp3 into AAC

Has anybody ever converted an mp3 into AAC and had the AAC file be larger than the mp3? All of the music on my iPod (close to 3000 songs) is AAC, and when I have an mp3 file I've been converting them, but I did that with a podcast, only 2 discover the size increased from 24 to 65 MB!!!
Does this make any sense?!
Also, am I doing myself a lot of harm, quality-wise, by making this conversion?

Converting 320kbps files into 128kbps will reduce the size by around 60%, but at the same time reducing audio quality. How much so can only be determined by you after several sid-by-side tests. You may or may not be able to hear the difference with your ears and equipment (iPod/headphones).
Converting the 45kbps podcasts to 128kbps will effectively triple the file size of each podcast, while adding absolutely no audio quality. Again, sampling a sample will lower quality.
Down-converting the 320 MP3s may not be as great a audio loss since they are starting off at a high quality bit rate. If they were 128s or 190s, you would notice a significant difference.
Just let your ears be your guide.

Convert to mp3

So, I have recently been using the "convert to mp3" tool in iTunes, but sometimes there is a problem. I will try to change a whole album at a time, and some songs will, once converted, be shortened to 4:01. Even when the song is 6 minutes long or so, it will stop at 4:01. I can retry the conversion sometimes, and it will work perfectly, and other times it will ALWAYS cut it short. The reason I have been doing this was because it was the only solution to another problem I was having. New songs put in my library would play on my laptop, but not my ipod. If anyone can help with that, please tell me, but the conversion seemed to help. Until now :/
I don't know why this is happening, because the songs are much longer than 4:01, but they just stop at the time with some of the conversions.

Export (now under the "Share" menu) your song to iTunes.
In the iTunes preferences (Advanced > Importing) select MP3 (at the bit rate of your choice, though MySpace may have file-size limits).
Then, in iTunes, select the AIFF of the the song you exported from GB, and choose "Convert to MP3" from the pull-down or contextual menu.
When uploading to MySpace, you'll have to drill down through your iTunes music folders to find the Artist>Album folder in which the MP3 is stored.
Shouldn't be too hard -- I've slung a few of my GarageBand recordings onto a Myspace page.
Cheers,
Carl

How to convert to MP3 or ACC?

I made a small song on garageband. now it is saved as .band
but want it to be an mp3 or acc. how can i do this? i already tried taking it to itunes and when i try to convert it there, nothing happens. i also tried looking at it with quicktime but it wont let me convert.
how can i do this?

I would never suggest lossy re-encoding of already lossy encoded audio, this will kill it literally. There should be only one lossy encoding done at the final stage. So the best way for GB is to "Share to iTunes" and then convert to MP3 or AAC within iTunes or drag it to Finder and use any other free/commercial software you like.

TA26407 Converting my songs from ABR to VBR

Will i lose or gain any quality from converting my songs from aac abr to aac vbr? I'm only changing the abr to vbr, not the bitrate.
I sold 90% of my collection to this store and I can't re-rip my collection. Most are at 128 kbps AAC VBR, and about 20% is 256 kbps AAC.
Would my best option to just leave everything as is? Thanks!

Open iTunes on your Mac. In "Store" menu, click "Authorize Computer".
I just transferred my entire iTunes library over from my Win XP machine using the "Backup to disc" feature (must have iTunes 7 for that). Pretty simple and straightforward. After I restored the backup discs onto my MacBook, I plugged up my Windows-formatted iPod and chose the option to restore it (basically a format), then it showed up as a Macintosh format in the Summary screen. After that, I just went to the file menu and chose "synch my iPod" and it's transferring all the music as I'm typing this.

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

How to convert iTunes (9.1.1) from AAC to MP3 for SansaDisk Fuze+?

I want to download iTunes to Sansadisk Fuze+ using PowerBook G4 OS10.4.11 and iTunes 9.1.1
There is no option to convert from AAC to MP3. The files are encoded with iTunes 8.1 which does not offer an option to convert files.

Never mind. I found what I need.

Cannot convert podcast from aac to mp3 in iTunes

I've downloaded the Mac Format podcast (auto link into iTunes) which is in acc format and right clicked it to select convert to mp3 as I want to burn to a disk (don't have an iPod - yes I know I'm the only one!) The progress bar shows the conversion taking place however once it has completed the file is still in acc format. How do I actually get it into mp3?

madking wrote:
iTunes automatically turns both AAC and MP3 into a different file type when burning on a Cd,
Clarification... when burning an AUDIO CD. You can burn data and MP3 CDs in iTunes as well.
madking wrote:
known as AIFF files. These AIFF files are playable by 99% of cd players, so you don't have to convert anything.
No, to nitpick, they are not in AIFF format but instead they are in Compact Disc Digital Audio format, aka "Red Book". When you put a CD into a Mac, it just shows them as AIFF files but they aren't until you actually copy them to your computer.
Patrick
(now Chris CA should be along shortly to get on me for that last boring bit since I just gave him a hard time about the same sort of correction to one of my posts)

Converting WAV files to AAC Error convert Can't read from or write to disk

For several weeks I had no problem converting WAV files (from an Olympus Digital Recorder) to AAC format in iTunes, then one day I clicked "Convert Selection to AAC" and received the message "Error occured while converting the file. The disk could not be read from or written to." There is no Error # associated with the Error message.

I recently spent over 14 hours converting all my CD songs to WAV. WAV conversion was the only one of two options available with my older Nero software, and MP3 conversion was not an option. I intended to make mixed CD's. By the time I was done, I had over 300 songs that take up over 17 GB in this WAV format.
The thought of sitting even more endless hours making these CD's made me even more exhausted, and I realized that I should get with the times and get an MP3 player. So, I bought an iPod directly from Apple two days ago (12/16), and get this, MaclessInAZ, the sales person told me that I all my WAV files could be imported into my iPod with iTunes. (!!!)
I am very glad to have read this thread before I got my iPod. I would have been so upset if there was no easy solution. My new iPod is supposed to be delivered tomorrow, and I am looking forward to getting it. Many thanks to weavercs for the information on the Switch program that converts WAV to MP3. Even if I decide to buy the full version of Switch, it is a lot less expensive than other conversion programs that I just found online, like Roxio.

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!

Converting Low MP3 to High AAC

Does anyone know if there would be sound quality loss if I took a 128kbps MP3 Sound File and used iTunes "Convert Selection to..." to convert it to a 320kbps AAC.
I get a bit confused becuase I am recompressing an already compressed file but it is suppose to be a better method of compression. Does it uncompress first like a JPG? CAN it be uncompressed first and then recompressed?
Any enlightenment would be appreciated.
Thanks!
-ROD

I am by no means an expert on audio conversion, but as I understand it the sound quality of an audio file will be reduced when converting it from one lossy format to another, especially when trying to go from a smaller size/ lower bitrate to a larger size/ higher bitrate.
(paraphrased from Andrew Davidson's Transcoding MP3 Files - Notes & Hints)
When transcoding, the MP3 must be decompressed (if only temporarily) to a decoded format (e.g. raw PCM) before re-encoding. Because of quality concerns, transcoding is not recommended…Transcoding upwards offers no quality benefit whatsoever, and results in a bigger file, so most of the time it is completely pointless. There is no point to transcoding upward (e.g. from 128Kbps to 256Kbps) except in the extremely unusual situation of a hardware player not supporting certain bitrates.
For much more info about your question, google "convert MP3 to AAC quality loss -download" and "convert audio file smaller to larger quality loss -download" (the -download filters out most of the "download our great conversion software" hits).
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