Missing music on burnt mp3 disc

I recently began converting my own albums to mp3 discs for my new car stereo which plays mp3 cds...however, when I go to burn the cd, it reports that much of it cannot be burnt as an mp3 disc...almost every album! I seem to remember converting everything to (m4) or something of that nature...would that have an effect, or is there some way that I can unlock my own imports to allow burning? They all play fine on the ipod and burn normally as a music cd.
Thank you.

To burn an MP3 CD, all the songs have to be in mp3-format already.
iTunes and most other MP3 CD burning applications don't convert other formats.
This is contrary to burning an Audio CD, where all formats are converted 'on the fly' into the native format of an Audio CD.
All non-mp3 formats (except purchased songs from the iTunes Store) can be easily converted to mp3.
iTunes: How to convert a song to a different file format tells you how to do that.
iTunes creates copies of the original songs in the chosen format.
Hope this helps.
M
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