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Just use the built-in capabilities of iTunes
Authored by: richard_wilkes on Feb 08, '06 05:30:16PM
You don't need to go through any of these gyrations -- just use iTunes' built-in conversion facilities:
  1. Go to iTunes preferences
  2. Select the "Advanced" preferences
  3. Select the "Importing" tab and select the settings for the format you want to encode into
  4. Go back to your iTunes library, select the songs you want to convert
  5. Select "Convert selection to xxxx" in the "Advanced" menu
iTunes will dutifully convert each of your songs, embedding tags if it can (i.e. when converting to MP3, it will stuff in the appropriate tags from your original AAC file). Yes, you lose some quality, but no more so (and maybe even less) than the other ways proposed here.

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Doesn't work for music from the iTunes store
Authored by: wahoo252 on Feb 08, '06 06:15:19PM

unfortunately, the "Convert selection to MP3" option doesn't work for music from the iTunes store. It just gives an error message of: "xxxx" could not be converted because protected files cannot be converted to other formats.

Works ok for other formats, just not for the protected AAC files from the iTunes store.



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