Converting a playlist to mp3

Anyone know a way to convert a playlist to MP3, and maintain the selection as a playlist? When I do it, I end up adding duplicate songs in MP3 format to my libray, and have to select them all over. A real pain when I've got hundreds of songs to deal with.
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The way "Convert Selection to XXX" works in iTunes is to create a new file in the indicated format, and add it to the library. It does not delete or modify the existing file, nor does it alter any playlist.

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So I tried to figure out another way to do it. It occured to me that if I exported the songs and then re-imported them, then they would be imported as mp3s due to the preference setting in Itunes, but I can't make that happen (they come back in as m4a). If I could, I thought I could just import (drag them in) to a new playlist and then I could delete the old playlist - allthough the problem then would be that the old playlist songs would still be in the library, but I think I read where I could do something like option delete (from within the old playlist) to actually remove the files from the library. Then I wouldn't have to hunt for the old songs.
My ignorance is due to my not using the proper terminology. I just saw the suffix is mp3 so I figured people would know what I meant. Same for m4a which probably also has a more correct term than that.
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