When converting song to MP3 in itunes you lose the file

When I am converting songs to MP3 in itunes it just disapears, I can't find it when I search in songs. So far I hate the new Itunes, becaue it's filled with bugs like this.

toddfrommagalia wrote:
When I convert a song (bit rate or M4P-to-MP3), it saves the new version in the itunes media folder. I can't remember how to make it duplicate in the original album folder so I can judt delete the original song version without having to cut/paste the new song version.
Any help?
If you use iTunes as your conversion tool, it gives you no choice about where to place the converted file;  it simply puts it into iTunesMedia/Music/Artist/Album, no matter where the original is.
Your choices are to either let iTunes do the conversion and then deal with the results manually, or else to use a different conversion tool, such as Switch, that allows you to select where to place the new file.

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