Search

Top Posts

Comments

  • David: thanks! And Hey I wasn’t calling you a liar just that the image may have been a fake and i said that i...
  • Dagaza: Thanks for the post, itunes also has an option to “Show Exact Duplicates” meaning you don’t...
  • maria Nicolaou: I have a Mac Os X version 10.5.8 and I was wondering if I can change my keyboard to a light one!
  • Mike: Holy cow, I want that! I have 3 monitors and it has greatly increased my productivity, I think it is an...
  • Zachary Waldowski: The Nvidia 9400M, which is on anything current but the high-end MacBook Pros, high-end iMacs, and...

Categories

Recent Posts


Convert m4a to mp3

You can convert m4a music files to mp3 format very easily by using the same program that creates m4a files… iTunes! This is the easiest way that I know of to convert m4a to mp3 that doesn’t require any additional software downloads. Here’s how to do it:

Converting m4a to mp3 with iTunes

The first thing you’ll need to do is launch iTunes and change the default file type for imported audio:
* Go into the iTunes Preferences and under ‘General’ settings you will see an ‘Import Settings’ button, click that and you will see a screen like the one shown below. In this drop down menu, select MP3 Encoder and click ‘Ok’
m4a to mp3 convert itunes
now iTunes will create mp3 files rather than m4a.
* Now converting any of your existing m4a files to mp3 files is very easy and you can do it directly within iTunes. Simply select a song that you know is in m4a format, and right-click the song to bring up a menu. With the song selected, navigate to “Create MP3 Version”
convert m4a to mp3 with itunes
Now give your computer a few seconds to convert the m4a file to mp3, it will appear at the top of the playlist, and also within the iTunes music folder, which by default is located in ~/Music/iTunes/

That’s it! Now you can convert those pesky m4a files to mp3 with ease.

Posted by: David Mendez

Share

Save big on Mac Deals from Amazon.com

Comments:

Comments: 6

Comment from rice
Time: December 3, 2009, 3:54 pm

awesome! thanks a million i hate m4a format this is great. mp3 rules!

Comment from jpmrb
Time: December 3, 2009, 4:47 pm

Yeah, let’s replace an audio compression scheme with an older inferior one! Way to go, yeah!

Comment from Grudedeng
Time: December 4, 2009, 1:22 am

It is a great and easy way to convert m4a to mp3 for Mac users.

Or you can take a look at this article about what is m4a and how to convert m4a to mp3 (windows):

http://www.softdiggs.com/howto/convert-m4a-to-mp3.php

Comment from papaya
Time: December 8, 2009, 5:53 am

To convert already compressed audio file is resulting much worse quality of the file.
Compressed m4a file is first transformed to aiff and that file is transformed to compressed mp3.
ONLY IF YOU MUST HAVE mp3.

Comment from Bryan Simms
Time: December 13, 2009, 2:11 pm

I don’t see much point unless you have an mp3 player that won’t support the aac format. I’d like to find an easy way to convert my wma files to aac or mp3

Pingback from Converting file formats in Mac OS X – OS X Daily
Time: March 1, 2010, 5:20 am

[...] Convert m4a to mp3 [...]

Write a comment






December 3rd, 2009