Converting mp4 to mp3 for burning to CD

I can only burn an Mp3 CD if the songs are already in an Mp3 format. The problem is that my play list is all in Mp4 format. How can I convert my whole play list to Mp3's so I can make a CD? If this is possible please give step by step instructions if you can....
Thank you.

If you want to make an mp3 CD (to put a lot of songs on one CD, as opposed to a 'regular' CD), then you have to convert your AAC files to mp3 format first, then burn as mp3 CD.
To convert your AAC files, if they are not protected you can simply change your import preferences to mp3 and then right-click on one or more songs and select "Convert to mp3...". The downside is that iTunes will create duplicates (the original AAC and mp3), and you'll lose some fidelity in transcoding like this.
If your AAC files are protected, then we're not allowed to help you get around the DRM on these boards.
{edited for TOU compliance}

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How To convert mp4 to mp3 using itunes 11.1.3.8 for windows

How To convert mp4 to mp3 using itunes 11.1.3.8 for windows

pgyan wrote:
How To convert mp4 to mp3 using itunes 11.1.3.8 for windows
The normal situation would be wanting to convert .m4a (AAC or Apple Lossless) to .mp3 as these are both music file formats. The extension .mp4 is normally for a video file and iTunes itself will only convert music files from one format to another.
For details on how to convert between music formats see http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1550
If you want to convert the audio track of an .mp4 video to a .mp3 file then you are going to need to use a different utility.

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Zevoneer wrote:
Itunes will let you convert songs in your iTunes library to another format. When you convert a song in iTunes it will be converted to the format that you have set to import your CDs in. Converting creates a second copy of the song in the format you have chosen which gives you the opportunity to either keep or delete the original. If you are using iTunes 8 go to Edit>Preferences>General and click on Import Settings, change your option to MP3 for example. Go back to your library and highlight the songs you want to convert and go to the Advanced menu at the top of your iTunes window and choose "Create MP3 version": iTunes: How to convert a song to a different file format
One exception to this are standard 128kbps AAC copy protected songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store which can't be directly converted due to the DRM (Digital Rights Management) copy protection. However you can burn these to an Audio CD which will work like any regular CD.
Hello Zevoneer! Thanks for your contribution. May I ask how one can 'Set QT Player as standard program for WMA files'?
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Before I go into detail, with store bought Songs from iTUnes, there in a "AAC protected format" and can not be converted, you have to first burn them to a audio CD, then "Re"import them as MP3
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It depends what is in your iTunes library.
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-If it is songs purchased from the iTunes music store, they are in protected AAC format and the only approach is to burn them to audio CD and import them back as mp3.
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pimmrid wrote:
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Next select the song you want to convert, go to menu Advanced -> Convert to (whatever you set in the prefs).
Set it back to AAC when done.

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#! /bin/bash
track=`echo "$@"`
music='/home/lnk/Music/'
video='/home/lnk/Videos/'
ffmpeg -i "$video$track".mp4 -acodec libmp3lame -ab 160k -ar 44100 -ac 2 "$music$track".mp3
Save the above code using your favorite text editor to 'convert.sh' or whatever you want.
Simply change the video variable from '/home/lnk/Music' to whatever folder you want the final conversion to end up.
Change the video variable from '/home/lnk/Videos/' to whatever folder you have your videos located.
Run
chmod +x convert.sh
Make sure you have 'lame' and 'ffmpeg' installed. Both of these can be found with pacman and installed.
pacman -S lame
pacman -S ffmpeg
When you're ready to do the conversions simple traverse in the terminal to the folder you have your script located and once there type
./convert.sh "filename without extension"
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Hope this helps a few beginners create something useful.

The "@" means "all arguments given to the script read separately". So all filenames are read, and if you have given the filename as one argument, so spaces escaped like autocomplete would do or *.mkv, then that stays. So "$@" is what you want
Now we make a loop where we handle each file after another, everytime we call it "i". So the line starting with ffmpeg is done for each file, where file = i.
ffmpeg -i "$i" : this is where we give ffmpeg the input file
"$target${i%*.mp4}".mp3 is where we point to the target folder and target filename. We don't want the output file to be filename.mp4.mp3, so we tell it to use the filename without the ".mp4" part at the end. That's what %*.mp4 does. Check here: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string … ation.html
Last edited by VCoolio (2012-03-27 16:18:19)

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