Converting files to MP3s

Does anyone know how to convert different files to MP3s? (Does anyone have a good program?) I need to do this in order to play a lot of my music on my phone
Thanks

Yea, iTunes only converts files you've already got on your HDD to AAC. I think what this guy meant was that when you first rip the music off a CD, you can have it encoded to mp3.
If you want to convert your AAC music files to mp3, it can be done...but I don't consider that an option at all. The quality of the music is, to say the least, generally horrible. Re-encoding a compressed file doesn't lead to good things. At least that's been my experience. And even when it does produce at least mediocre results, the amount of time you pump into to converting the files is insane.
You could burn the music to CD in iTunes, then re-rip it all in iTunes as an mp3. The quality doesn't drop nearly as much as if you directly converted it, which runs against logic, but whatever. It's also how you convert nasty DRM protected music from iTunes to nice, clean, DRM free files. Of course, this takes even longer than if you directly converted the files, and forces you to use quite a few CDs (unless you're using CD-RWs, though those wear out).
Honestly, your best option is just to download everything you want off of BitTorrent. Say what you will of that, but you do already have the music on your HDD, which you (hopefully) purchased. So why should you pay again, or spend all that time re-ripping everything just to get it in a different codec? You shouldn't. And just so you don't run into this problem in the future, remember to rip/download everything as mp3, not Apple's proprietary AAC.

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carolmrl wrote:
Hi: I have several albums on my new computer (G5 desktop running OS10.58) iTunes 9--that are in AAC format. When I try to burn these albums, the prompt tells me I can't burn them in mp3 unless they come to the burning in the mp3.
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As far as converting DSS files to mp3, I have found no direct route. As Mark points out, the most elegant option is to use the Olympus DSS Player software. Fortunately, version 7.5 works with Mavericks; I just tested it out once again to confirm that. The Olympus web site provides downloads to the previous versions of DSS Player, which accompanied the purchase of an Olympus recorder, but it may not allow downloading of the original application itself to which you can apply those upgrades. However, if you do a deep Google search, you may get lucky and locate the original application.
Once in DSS Player, you import your DSS file(s). After they are listed in file window, you can export them to AIFF files. From there, you can either use Switch or any other audio converter which can convert AIFF files to mp3 files.
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NCH Software has had years in which to empower Switch to work on the Mac, but they either cannot code the program to do this, or they do not want to. Either way, they should not lie about saying their program CAN do in their Goggle AdWord, while admitting on their website, if you probe before you buy, that Switch can NOT convert DSS to mp3 after all. I have a bias against liars.
I find it interesting that NCH Software is not above slamming Olympus for having developed, in NCH's opinion, an inferior audio format for recording dictation. Whether that is true or not, I cannot comment for it is a technical matter beyond my expertise. However, I can say that setting your Olympus recorder (in my case, model DS-2, which has worked flawlessly for me for years), allows you to record many more messages before the storage capacity (of about 68 MB on my device) is reached. So, there is an incentive, in my case, to use DSS on the device, but to convert the source DSS files later on to usable formats on my Mac.
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I like being able to choose the quality settings, and I like the ability to call upon the DSS setting to record long conversations, interviews, or dictation, without fretting that I will run out of storage space. The ability to convert those DSS files, via the DSS Player, to AIFF, then to mp3 gives me the flexibility of choice.
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