Converting Mp4 to MP3 in iTunes 9

I cannot figure out how to do this in iTunes 9. The "import" button on the advance tab or preferences is no longer there so I cannot select the MP3 option for importing either. Did it get moved?

symphonix wrote:
Did it get moved?
Yes. It's now found in the iTunes Preferences "General" tab. Click the "Import Settings..." button.

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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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Hi Can anyone help to convert mp4 audio files to mp3 for my car stereo? i have the latest itunes on windows. i only have a option to create new version to AAC.

To convert mp4 to mp3, you can also use the third party tool like audio converter which can extract audio file from video to hlep you.

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I sent a friend of mine a song in the AAC format; I had thought that format was universally acceptable. Unfortunately, my friend said that she couldn't open the file. I then thought of converting the file to the MP3 format, because I know she can read that. This gets to my question: How do you do it? When I highlighted the song and clicked on Advanced, the only option was to convert to AAC. That's when I decided to come here. Is there a way to convert AAC to MP3 with iTunes? Also, how widespread is the acceptance of AAC?
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You got the process correct, it
is just that iTunes only offers you the option to
convert to whatever your preferences are currently
set to for importing.
So go to preferences, importing, set it to MP3. then
go to your song and you can now use the "Convert
to..." option which should show MP3. Once done, go
back to preferences and switch back to AAC if that is
what you normally want to use.
Patrick
That was fast. Anyway, it worked. Thanks for your help. Now, all I have to do is to work-out what combination of factors I should use to obtain the smallest possible MP3 file while maintaining decent quality. It's an individual decision. What would be okay for me, might be intolerable to others, but I want to keep all sound files less than 1 MB. Make that, "all sound files that I send". I hope that doesn't mean that I will have to keep duplicate files. We'll just have to see. Anyway, thanks again.
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When converting song to MP3 in itunes you lose the file

When I am converting songs to MP3 in itunes it just disapears, I can't find it when I search in songs. So far I hate the new Itunes, becaue it's filled with bugs like this.

toddfrommagalia wrote:
When I convert a song (bit rate or M4P-to-MP3), it saves the new version in the itunes media folder. I can't remember how to make it duplicate in the original album folder so I can judt delete the original song version without having to cut/paste the new song version.
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If you use iTunes as your conversion tool, it gives you no choice about where to place the converted file; it simply puts it into iTunesMedia/Music/Artist/Album, no matter where the original is.
Your choices are to either let iTunes do the conversion and then deal with the results manually, or else to use a different conversion tool, such as Switch, that allows you to select where to place the new file.

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You'll need to adjust your import settings to mp3 first. For instructions, see the following document:
iTunes: About the Add to Library, Import, and Convert functions
EDIT: sorry, this document is better:
iTunes: How to convert a song to a different file format
Message was edited by: b noir

Converting mp4 to mp3

Help - I'm no techie! I simply wanted to convert mp4 files to mp3, which wouldn't work in itunes, because they are 'protected' files. A friend suggested Audacity, which I downloaded. I opened a file in Audacity, went to export as mp3, and got the message that "Audacity does not export mp3 files directly, but instead uses LAME, an mp3 exporting library available separately. would you like to locate LameLib now?" I clicked yes, but couldn't find anything in finder. At a loss, I went back to sourceforge and clikced to download LAME, hoping it would automatically sort everything. Nothing appeared to happen. It didn't seem to download, and I couldn't find any trace of it on computer.
Any help with this much appreciated - I just want to convert the files so I can put em on an mp3 CD! Seems like it should be incredibly simple to solve, but I am lost.

Wait a minute! There is an answer to your (and my) problem in the thread just below yours.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1240701&tstart=0

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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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Ah so that's how it works.
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Problem is I want to convert my downloaded m4p files to mp3 wile still keeping my playlists. Most of the solutions duplicate the files and if you have used any of the m4p's in a playlist the new converted mp3's don't reference the m4p's so if you delete the old m4p files it brakes all your playlists.
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1.Convert you M4P's in itunes with Advanced->Convert to
2.Then eport you playlists
3.Open in each playlist in text edit and do a find and replace on .m4p to .mp3
4. Then reimport you play lists.
5. Then you can if you like delete the old m4p's
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Open iTunes prefs -> Advanced -> Importing. Set to MP3, WAV, AIFF, AAC or Apple Lossless (whatever you want to convert TO.)
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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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.
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