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[vivien]

Okay, say I have a library of songs on Itunes and say I wanted to burn them onto cd in mp3 format. How would one go about doing this in the easiest way possible? Or is this possible?

I am asking for a friend who is not super tech savvy but lnows enough.

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[moons-storm.livejournal.com]

The only way I've ever been able to move songs from iTunes to a format I can share is to create a playlist on iTunes, burn it to a disk, then rip in the songs using in Windows Media Player set to MP3. It's tedious, but... :)

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

Preferences > Advanced > Burning, make sure it's set to MP3 (they may not be able to; Apple's cottoned on and some songs will only burn in playable or data format, but that's where you choose it)

Then make a playlist, copy all the songs into that playlist (ie. mine is called "iTunes Backup" -- klevar, no?) and put in a blank CD and click the little button in the corner that says "burn". That's it. :D

[zarahemla.livejournal.com]

If iTunes doesn't allow her (him) to export the files as mp3s, he (she) can also burn them to disk as a .cda file (just a regular music CD file), then turn around and import them back into iTunes, and then choose "Convert selection to mp3" under the "advanced" tab. That's my crappy low-tech way of doing it, but it works.

[oneechan19.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna guess that the songs you have on iTunes are m4a format? If so, what I've had to do is burn an audio cd using iTunes, then ripped them into mp3s using Widones Media Player.

... which has already been said above. But yeah, that's what I've been doing.

[mcamy.livejournal.com]

Probably the CD burner that came on your computer came with burning software. Myself, I never burn with iTunes (ok, once). I go to the other burning software, choose to make a data disk, and then dump all my mp3s on it and punch the burn button. No iTunes weirdness, no reripping.

[mcamy.livejournal.com]

Of course, this assumes your mp3s are already mp3s--I see in the above comments that they might not be...

[anamazonruns.livejournal.com]

If your songs in itunes are already in mp3 format it's easy. Just follow the instructions in itunes. There's a big old button on the top right and the help menu tells you exactly how.

The problem is that most of what is in itunes likely got imported in mp4 format. You can change the setting for how you import, but the stuff that is already there will have to be converted to mp3.

If you have music in itunes on your computer that you burned from a disk, or purchased somewhere other than itunes, you can just right click the song and select "convert to mp3". It makes a copy, which you can then burn to anything. You can also "select all" in a playlist and right click, it will convert them all. Itunes help will get you that far.

The big problem is with music that you have purchased from itunes. Itunes prevents you from converting music you buy from them. They give it to you in mp4/aai protected format and will not let you convert to mp3. Supposedly it is a copyright issue, but in fact they are infringing on YOUR rights by making it nearly impossible for you to play music have purchased on anything but an ipod (or your doubtless crappy computer speakers). No other mp3 player will work. So you have to get software that strips off the protection. I bought an application called Soundtaxi for 15 bucks off the internet. It allows you to convert your protected mp4s that you bought from itunes into mp3s. Well, it doesn't really convert, it makes a new copy in mp3. Then you can do with it what you will.

If you want to publish your playlists to TiVo you have to get everything into mp3 format first and THEN buy yet another piece of software that makes it possible for TiVo to see your playlists over your wireless network. We are using TiVi tunes for that. It's worth it for us because we have a Bose soundsystem on our TV.