MPEG4 - AAC Problem!

Hey guys, Firstly i'm not the best person with Computers so excuse me if i've done something majorly stupid.
Bought a new phone today - Samsung D600; if you're wondering. Anyway, it doesn't support MPEG4 files, which is what the songs in my iTunes library are currently in. It does support AAC, so i thought i was in luck. However when i convert songs into AAC I just get a duplicate of the first file, still in MPEG4.
Any ideas? Anybody else have this problem? All help is appreciated, including other ways in which to convert files.
Thanks in advance...

All music files from the iTunes Music Store are protected and can not be converted to another format. The file suffix "m4p" means "MPEG4 Protected."
Files imported from audio CDs are AAC files with an mp4 file suffix by default. They are unprotected, industry standard AAC files, and should not need to be converted if the phone supports AAC.

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I see, it sounds reasonable , i think i will buy the pro and try.
QT Pro ($30) and MPEG Streamclip (free) complement each other. In many cases one can do things that the other cannot. For instance, MPEG Stramclip can handle/edit multiplexed formats while QT Pro cannot. QT Pro allows layering of data tracks while Streamclip does not. Streamclip merges file streams more easily than QT Pro but QT Pro allows the "Movie to MPEG-4" export to "passthrough" the video while Streamsclip does not. And so on and so forth...
I was referring to the mpegs from the Sony camera, of which a have hundreds, shot in the last 3 or 4 years, mainly from my 5-year old daughter. Is the above true to these?
That still doesn't help. By "sony camera," are you referring to a still digital camera (multiplexed MPEG-1) or a Sony video camcorder taking MPEG-4/AVCHD with AC3 audio in an MPEG wrapper, a Sony DVD/HDD camera storing some kind of MPEG-2/AC3 files. On a Mac, the extension MPG normally refers multiplexed MPEG-1 (or MPEG-1 audio layer) files while MPEG normally refers to multiplexed MPEG-2 video content with MPEG-1, layer 2 audio (MPEG2/MP2) but may also refer to files with MP3 or AC3 files in an MPEG, VOB, or TS wrapper. In addition it may loosely refer to elementary M2V video streams (M2V video file paired with a separate AIFF or AC3 file), a standard MPEG4/AAC file (in an MOV or MP4 wrapper) or a standard H.264/AAC file in MOV, MP4, or M4V wrapper). Since the handling, conversion, editing requirements vary with each type of file, it becomes important to what specific kind of content/file container we are dealing with here.

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