Making MP3

I guess I can't convert song files into MP3 using iTunes. Nor can I do this in QuickTime.
What to do?

This may be of help, i use a program called switch at http://www.nch.com.au/switch/index.html this will do batch conversion perfectly. My version was free a few months ok have a look.

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Making mp3 and or file type force download

I have a a web app that has a sermon and also has a notes you can down load. But I want it so when you click download it opens a save as box or open not stream. How can I use the literature settings to accomplish this in my web app.
Shaun Ryan

Mario,
Once again thank you for your help. However the {tag_sermon_value} does not seem to do anything or be recognized as a tag. Now it just shows {tag_sermon_value} on the right side of the sermons section. Is what I am asking not very clear? What we are doing is offering different ways to listen and or get the sermons. 1) they can stream it using the player on the left. 2) They can subscribe to the podcast.(not currently setup yet). 3) They can download the mp3 (where my problem is) I know you can always right click and save target link. However I was trying to make it a lot easier so all you have to do is click on it. Like the functionallity of the Media Downloads module. Please let me know if I am not making any sense. And once again thank you very much for your time.
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Software for making MP3 phone tunes any idea`s

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Not sure if anyone can help me out here but I am looking for a program that I can make MP3 Phone rings ..... Jut 15-20 sec MP3`s from my iTunes Library
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Hi,
first of all you have to cut your songs into 20-30 sec clips. You can do it with quicktime pro.
Then you can convert them in mp3 with "mAC3dec", you can find it in versontracker. This will not work with songs bought on itunes Music store, since they are protected.

Making MP3 CDs (and issues with AAC files)

Hello All,
I like to burn MP3 CDs so I can play several hours worth of tunes while riding my motorcycle or in the car. I have a large collection of songs that I purchased from the iTunes store. When I burn a CD my choices are Audio, MP3 or Data. The AAC (earlier versions are protected and recent purchases are purchased AAC) won't work cause they are not MP3 files and iTunes won't allow me to make an MP3 copy. The latter only seems to work if I ripped a song from CD to AAC format. Any suggestions? I believe my CD player will also play AAC files. How can I either create a mix of MP3 and AAC files on a CD or convert purchased AAC files to MP3. Thanks for your help!

To create an MP3 CD in iTunes, you need to have a playlist of songs that are already in MP3 format. If you need to convert AAC files to MP3, simply follow these instructions: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1550
Note that format conversion creates a new file in MP3 format, but does not replace the file in any playlist. Make sure that the playlist you are going to burn has only MP3s in it. The best way to check is by looking at the Kind column. If Kind is not visible, enable it by going to View > View Options.

Making MP3 CDs from iTunes purchases.

My car can read MP3 CDs and I don't recall having this issue with the old iTunes software but it could be coincidence.
Anyway over the past several months I've been using XM since my MacBook Pro with Retina display doesn't have a CD Burner on it. Well a buddy of mine gave me his old super drive so I decided to burn an MP3 CD but I was greeted with the message, "MP3s can only be added to MP3 CDs" or something along those lines. I noticed that it was my iTunes purchased songs wouldn't convert to be added to the CD.
What's the easiest way to fix this problem?

An "MP3 CD" is really nothing more than a data CD. There's nothing special about it except that all the files on it are MP3s. Tracks purchased from the iTunes Store are not .mp3 files; they are AAC files with an extension of .m4a.
You can cross convert an AAC file to MP3, but you should be aware that you will be losing quality that may affect what you hear. Before you do this check the manual for the head unit in the car and see if it also reads AAC files. If it does you'll be able to burn a data CD with the iTunes Store purchases, no problem.
To convert AAC to MP3, in iTunes 11, open iTunes prefs > General and click Import Settings. Change the import settings to what you want them to be. OK out of the dialogs. Find the tracks you wish to convert in the iTunes Library, highlight them, right-click (or Control+click) and choose "create MP3 version." This will create a new tracks that can now be burned to an "mp3 cd."

Making mp3 files for Acrobat 9

You can only embed mp3 files into
Acorbat 9 files. I want to addf my voice with microphone. Windows only make wma files or wav files.
How can I make mp3 files?
Trudie

Trudie,
Pehaps the simplest approach would be to obtain a conversion utility.
A search engine query ought to return a plethora of possibilities
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Making mp3s instead of m4a files for your own hard drive?

I taped some guys where I work playing some bagpipes. I created an aiff file from FCP to my hard drive. I was trying to figure out how to create an mp3 file from the aiff file. I was able to create an m4a file, but I still have not figured out how to create an mp3 file for the pc'ers to be able to play it on their computer.
Thanks for any help

In iTunes, go to Preferences > Advanced > Importing. Change the "Import Using": tab fom "AAC Encoder" to "mp3 Encoder".

Making mp3 into books

I have the latest iTunes (6.0.2.23). I used to be able to change the extension on an mp3 file to .m4b so that it holds its place when played like a book. I would just drag the m4b file into iTunes. Now when I drag an m4b into iTunes, iTunes does not respond--does not copy/import the file. Has the feature been stopped? If not, how can I convert long mp3s to book format?
Thanks.

Renaming a .mp3 file directly to .m4b is not going to work, unfortunately. M4B is a form of AAC-encoded file, and MP3 is a form of MPEG-encoded file. You will have to find a way to convert the MP3 to an AAC file with an extension of .M4A, and I think there are some tools online that can do that like Poikosoft Easy CD-DA Extractor. Once the file is an M4A, you can rename the extension to M4B and import it into iTunes. It will then recognize it as an iPod Audiobook.

Making mp3 files show as audiobooks in iTunes 7

iTunes 7 seems to recognised SOME of my audiobooks correctly and put them in the right library category. But most of them are still in the music library. I wouldn't care, but in some cases there are some chapters of the same book in one section and some in the other.
Is there a way to move a group of tracks into the Audiobook section so they can all be together?
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Separating library into mp3 and lossless libraries?

I have imported most of my music into iTunes using lossless format, but have been making mp3 copies of some of my music to place on my ipod. This is not ideal, because, for example, when picking songs to play the genius function will often pick the mp3 version over the lossless version. I would like to separate out the lossless music I play at home and the mp3 music I sync to my ipod, and I think the best way to do that is to have separate iTunes music libraries (correct me if I'm wrong).
At first I thought I could simply duplicate my music folder, and use the find command to delete all of the mp3 files. But after reading Apple's instructions on how to use multiple ipods on one computer (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1495?viewlocale=en_US), I think it might be better to simply have two libraries.
I don't quite understand how this works, but I think it means that I would have two libraries sharing the same iTunes Music folder, and I wouldn't have to remove the mp3 files in the finder.
But I still do not know a good way to do this, and would like suggestions. For my iPod library, I want a copy of my current library, but with all the lossless music deleted. I think this is not too hard; I could simply do a search for 'mpeg' and delete all of those songs.
For my home listening, I would like to find a way to delete the mp3 files that also have lossless files; if I only have a mp3 copy, I would like to keep that. I could do this manually by showing duplicates, but I have a lot of music and this would take forever.
Any suggestions would be appreciated,
Ric

OK - this is how you could do it. using Smart playlists.
But first, convert all the lossless tracks you want on your iPod to AAC (and perhaps use a bitrate that you don't have other tracks in? An unusual one, say 160 or 192).
Create a Smart Playlist with criterion Kind = AAC (if all your non-lossless tracks are MP3 as you say), or bitrate = 160 (192, or whatever), if you already have both AAC and MP3. OR if this will get too confusing, Date Added = (less than 2 weeks, say). You'll think of something that works for you, I'm sure.
Manually manage your iPod (not sync) and drag the contents of the Smart playlist to your iPod. Then delete the tracks from your Mac while keeping the playlist. In future, any tracks you convert for iPod will be in that playlist, from where you can drag them over to the iPod and then delete them off your Mac.
This sounds much more complicated to explain than it would be in practice.

Burning MP3 disks from purchased iTunes Store songs

Making MP3 disks from songs I have purchased from the iTunes Store is pretty inconvenient: first I have to make a Music CD, then I have to reimport the files as MP3s, then, finally, I can make an MP3 disk. Is there something I'm missing? I wish it was easier.

Buy the iTunes Plus tracks & those can be directly converted to mp3. Also, if you need mp3 tracks, you might want to take a look at Amazon.com's download service which offers unprotected mp3's at a higher bitrate.

What's the maximum size a playlist can be when burning?

I always need to leave a few meg under 700 when burning a playlist to 700meg cd and was wondering if anybody knew the maximum a playlist can be to burn? Not sure if the media has anything to do with it. Would just be nice to be able to plan ahead since I make a lot of comps and sometimes need to cut a song at the last moment.

I'm making mp3 cds. Technically I'm using CD-R Audio discs (80min/700mb) as I have a home-audio cd burner and these discs are compatible with both. The problem is that I have tried to burn playlists that are close to 700mb but wouldn't burn as iTunes said it was too large for the disc, so I need to leave ~3-5mb free for it to burn. I guess it uses that space for the index/xml or other data. I was just wondering if anybody knew exactly, or very close to the maximum you can burn.

Using Variable Bit Rate Encoding (VBR) and playback issues

I have been using VBR when making mp3 for download to "Soundclick.com" in the past, resently, I started to hear complaints from listeners, that my mp3 were garbled, although it is not consistent so, it is true, and I came to believe it was because of VBR. I re-encoded the files in question, and so far the problem has gone away.
The question is this due to OSX 10.5.6, or might it be something with soundclick, I don't know; but it did seem to become evident after loading the OSX 10.5.6 update. I can't find a way to correspond with Apple Development, so I thought to post here. I am also going to pursue this with "Soundclick.com"; VBR seems to be an efficient way to encode, and I would like to keep using it.
If anyone know about this it would be cool to hear for you!
God Bless,
ron c
http://soundclick.com/rone2him

Is the problem inherently answered in your question?
Why use VBR when you bounce? It's a compromise solution, and has it's own problems. What are soundclicks tech specs? Work to those, getting the file as big as you can, it takes moments to bounce multiple files of varying bit depth etc to see how far you can stretch things before you're over-budget on the file size.
best
Steve

Importing slowing down my computer

Whenever I import a cd now it takes much longer and slows down my whole computer. Songs and videos also skip while importing a cd. After importing everything is fine again. Does anyone know anything about this problem??

This could be two different issues.
When importing CDs change the program focus to another area like the library or mini store. This has worked for a lot of people to speed up importing with iTunes7.
As for the whole computer slowing down during import, it depends on computer. iTunes7 and new Quicktime seem to need more resources than older versions. You could try ripping CDs using another program if you are making mp3 files.

Will adding media frequently harm battery? / Resume function for

I download several podcasts and add them to my player daily, consequently my player is plugged-in and, in-effect, charging for short periods several times a day. I'm wondering if this will cause any problems with the battery. I know the memory-effect is not supposed to be a problem anymore, but I've also read that there are a limited number of charge cycles and I wonder if I'm using them up every time I hook it up to add a podcast, I'm also?wondering how this will effect the accuracy of my battery meter.
I guess a solution to this problem would be to put them on an SD card and play them from the card.
I would love to do this?except for the fact?that there is NO BOOKMARKING, or even a RESUME function available and they are about 2 hrs. long! This leads me to my?second question which is: If they can't integrate the SD card into the main memory, couldn't the at least add a Bookmark or Resume function. It's pretty-much useless as is!

?Don't worry about the number of charge cycles. Lithium ion batteries are dying over time no matter how many times they are charged. I wish Creative would start making mp3 players that use AA batteries, or else make some players that use a common size removable lithium ion battery. Using replaceable batteries would give Creative an advantage over other brands, as there are many users who want a player that uses replaceable batteries. Cell phones and digital cameras use replaceable batteries. Why don't mp3 players use them?

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