AAC to MP3 for Mac 10.4

[Saturn0660]

So i have my mac and I have my iTunes and they are all AAC files. I no longer have an iPod and won't for while. Is there anyway I can make an MP3 CD with my songs for playing in the car. iTunes "says" it can do it. But when I tell it to make an MP3 disk it says "only files in MP3 format can be burned onto a MP3 disk and the stuff i bought says "this is an iTunes plus file".


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[ITL]

Why, I converted an AAC that I ripped from a YouTube MP4 earlier on today with Switch Converter - I'm on a PC, but there is a Mac version.

It converts just about anything to anything.

 

[Shaw]

You're allowed to burn all protected AAC files bought via iTunes to audio CDs. You can then re-import them as MP3s (manually labeling them in the process).

If it sounds inconvenient... it is supposed to be. That inconvenience was really the protection against copying Apple promised the record companies.

 

[spinnerlys]

You can also use the converter build into iTunes.

Go to iTunes Preferences > General or Advanced (depending on the version you have) > Import CD > Import Settings > select MP3.

Then in iTunes select the tracks you want to convert, go to Advanced (in the Menu Bar) > make MP3 version.

It will work with all files without any kind of DRM or other copyright protection.

 

[Saturn0660]

You're allowed to burn all protected AAC files bought via iTunes to audio CDs. You can then re-import them as MP3s (manually labeling them in the process).

If it sounds inconvenient... it is supposed to be. That inconvenience was really the protection against copying Apple promised the record companies.

Would that not cause the MP3's to be of very low quality. A compressed file made into a music then re ripped into an mp3?

 

[Lindley]

Assuming the audio CD uses an uncompressed AIFF (which they usually do), it shouldn't be any worse than directly transcoding to MP3.

After all, in the majority of cases transcoding simply implies decoding one compression format and then re-compressing in another.

 

[Shaw]

Assuming the audio CD uses an uncompressed AIFF (which they usually do), it shouldn't be any worse than directly transcoding to MP3.

Yeah... what he said.

 

[Saturn0660]

Assuming the audio CD uses an uncompressed AIFF (which they usually do), it shouldn't be any worse than directly transcoding to MP3.

Yeah... what he said.

I don't see how that would work... All you are doing is making the file a AIFF... it's still already compressed. Just the file type is no longer a compressed type.

 

[Lindley]

I'm not saying you won't lose quality, I'm saying that you won't lose any more quality than converting to MP3 directly. You'll lose exactly the same (hopefully unnoticeable) amount.