Trying to convert itunes purchased to mp3

So I go on itunes buy the song and now I am stuck. I tried burn it as an audio file however itunes keeps giving me the message that the one 5 Mb file that I want to burn is to big for the 700 Mb disc that I want it on. Now I'm no rocket scientist, but I'm pretty sure there is a problem with that math. Has anyone run into this little difficulty?
Steve

Hi Sea Beast,
Thanks for replying to me. I tried converting to aiff with no luck. itunes keeps telling me that its protected and that I can't change the format. any other ideas? Is there a way to download from itunes in any formats that windows media player reads? I got an itunes gift card from work for $30 and it would really suck if I couldn't use it.
Steve

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I FINALLY figured it out!!!! Sometimes I am sooo
slow! Thanks for your help!
Its not your fault. The French are considering making Apple
behave responsibly and allow use of iTunes music on any
audio player.
The requirement to burn to CD and re-import just so I can
use a non-Apple music player....well, it looked good to legal
and why should Apple care about anything else.
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mustangmaster200 wrote:
i find it frustrating that my over 300 purchased songs are now useless to me. HELP PLEASE?
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You can do it perfectly well in iTunes.
1. Go to iTunes Preferences>General and click the 'Import settings' button.
2. Choose 'MP3 Encoder' in the 'Import Settings' menu and use the 'Settings' menu to choose your bitrate as required.
3. Go to your Library and select the files you want to convert.
4. From the 'Advanced' menus choose 'Create MP3 version'
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hi
just wondering whether there is a way? I have just got a car with an MP3 CD player and wanted to use itunes to burn an mp3 CD. However, i can't as everything is either encoded as AAC when i burnt all my CDs or i can't as i have downloaded them from the itunes site.
Is there a way of converting them to mp3, that doesn't include burining a cd and reripping them as an mp3?

Liam,
Is there a way of converting them to mp3, that doesn't include burining a cd and reripping them as an mp3?
Song files purchased from iTMS are copy-protected to deter music piracy so that's your only option.
For songs you've ripped into iTunes yourself, you can have a look at this article in the Apple Knowledge Base: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93123
Note the warning that converting from one lossy format to another will result in the loss of some audio fidelity. So try that method out with a few songs before deciding whether you want to proceed or re-import your CD's with the new Import settings.

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