My iTunes will not burn a lot of my music as MP3s

I am trying to create a MP3 cd with music from my iTunes.
Most of the music is from CDs.
But it doesn't seem to matter what format the music originally came in (imported) as because some of it can be turned into MP3s and some of it can not.
Please tell me what to do in this situation. I know that some of the music from iTunes music store will only allow me to burn a certain amount of times before it does not allow me to anymore. However, I have never burned any of my purchased music to a CD yet. Also, most of the music that I want to burn into MP3 format onto a disc is from my own personal CD collection.
Is there anything I can do. The problem is that my girlfriend's MP3 player is not an iPod so that I need to make the music MP3 and not MP4 because the player she has only reads MP3s.

What format is my music converted to when I import from CD?
that depends on what you have set in your itunes importing preferences tab. for some more info on that, see:
iTunes 6: How to Choose Import Options
for a little more info about the different file formats see:
iTunes: About import settings and hard disk space

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