Converting audio from aac to mp3

2012-05-02 Thread Adrian Skehan
I have been gifted a little mp3 player which will only play mp3 files (funny about that!). It appears that most of the tracks are in AAC format, can anyone tell me how to change them to mp3 please. Regards Adrian Sent from my iPhone -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: Converting audio from aac to mp3

2012-05-02 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Adrian, To convert a song's file format: 1.Open iTunes Preferences. Choose iTunes Preferences. 2. Click the General button, then click the Importing Settings button in the second section of the window. 3. From the Import Using pop-up menu, choose the encoding format that you want to

Re: Converting audio from aac to mp3

2012-05-02 Thread iCloud
Thanks Ronni! Can I then delete the AAC version? Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 02/05/2012, at 3:27 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, To convert a song's file format: 1.Open iTunes Preferences. Choose iTunes Preferences. 2. Click the General button, then click the

Re: Converting audio from aac to mp3

2012-05-02 Thread James / Hans Kunz
just if you don't want to use itunes, adapter.app does a good job to lets you batch convert i use it for the last 2 years for audio video conversion (macroplant.com) James SAD Technic U3 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA Australia +618 9370 5307 mob 0414 421132 (international +614 14421132)

Re: Converting audio from aac to mp3

2012-05-02 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Adrian, If you only require MP3 format, then delete the AAC versions. I import all my music in AIFF format (highest quality, exactly the same format as on the music CDs), then I convert tracks I wish to have on my iPhone iPad to MP3 format... but I also keep the AIFF for using in tracks in

Re: Converting audio from aac to mp3

2012-05-02 Thread iCloud
Thanks again Ronni! Problem solved. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 02/05/2012, at 3:27 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, To convert a song's file format: 1.Open iTunes Preferences. Choose iTunes Preferences. 2. Click the General button, then click the Importing

Re: aac to mp3

2004-08-31 Thread choy
Paul, as I wrote in my post, indeed it does mean you end up with an extra copy, unless there is some option that I have missed to stop that happening: Convert selection to MP3. select this and voila! an MP3 copy will appear under the aac version in your library. Remember to delete the

Re: aac to mp3

2004-08-31 Thread Ronda Brown
Hello interested wamugers, This month's Australian Macworld (09.2004) has a 'How To' Make sense of music formats. iTunes encoding strategies. Cheers, Ronni On 31/08/2004, at 7:59 AM, choy wrote: Paul, as I wrote in my post, indeed it does mean you end up with an extra copy, unless

Re: aac to mp3

2004-08-31 Thread Ronda Brown
On 31/08/2004, at 8:29 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello interested wamugers, This month's Australian Macworld (09.2004) has a 'How To' Make sense of music formats. iTunes encoding strategies. Cheers, Ronni If the person who was originally interested in encoding his music to MP3's wants

Re: AAC to MP3

2004-08-30 Thread Paul
choy wrote: In Itunes under the preferences under importing you can choose the type of encoder to use when importing songs. It sounds like you have been importing using AAC. Change the encoder to MP3 and then when you right click or control-click your songs in your library, you will see

Re: Converting audio file formats - AAC to MP3

2004-08-29 Thread John Taylor
On 28 Aug 2004, at 9:05 PM, Metal Artwork Creations wrote: My new Alpine car stereo supports MP3 and WAV? formats. I'm trying to create an MP3 CD to use in it. The vast majority of my iTunes songs are in AAC format with 1 MP3 song. The AAC songs seem to require a mixed-format style CD to burn

Re: AAC to MP3

2004-08-29 Thread choy
stereo supports MP3 and WAV? formats. I'm trying to create an MP3 CD to use in it. The vast majority of my iTunes songs are in AAC format with 1 MP3 song. The AAC songs seem to require a mixed-format style CD to burn. Selecting a mixed-mode format CD I have burnt all the songs - only the 1 MP3 song

Converting audio file formats - AAC to MP3

2004-08-28 Thread Metal Artwork Creations
My new Alpine car stereo supports MP3 and WAV? formats. I'm trying to create an MP3 CD to use in it. The vast majority of my iTunes songs are in AAC format with 1 MP3 song. The AAC songs seem to require a mixed-format style CD to burn. Selecting a mixed-mode format CD I have burnt all the songs

Re: Converting audio file formats - AAC to MP3

2004-08-28 Thread Robert Howells
MP3 and WAV? formats. I'm trying to create an MP3 CD to use in it. The vast majority of my iTunes songs are in AAC format with 1 MP3 song. The AAC songs seem to require a mixed-format style CD to burn. Selecting a mixed-mode format CD I have burnt all the songs - only the 1 MP3 song is recognised