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

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