Comments on: Convert m4a to mp3

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:43:58 +0000

TANKS?! you mean that you’re going to drive a freakin TANK to him because of what he said?!

Yes, I made a spelling mistake in my comment (below) too, so jk. =)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:41:09 +0000

*Facepalm… I should have seen that button RIGHT THERE IN FRON OF ME a while ago… I was so worried that I had wasted money on songs that I couldn’t send to my Sansa Zip Clip MP3 player. Thank you for the simple directions to save me from worrying.

By: Gul

Gul — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:32:05 +0000

THANKS David!

It was soooo simple!
For those who could not find it under ‘General’tab (like me)..
Open Music/Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Importing. You will see an option ‘Import Using’ with drop down menu. Select ‘Mp3 encoder’ in the menu. Click ‘OK’.

Have fun converting!

Cheers!

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:28:51 +0000

Yes you should. Well I have Mac and I was able to right click…maybe you don’t have right click enabled on your computer?

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:28:03 +0000

Thanks so much!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for spending the time to write this on here! You’ve just REALLY helped me!

By: al

al — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:35:04 +0000

i can’t right click on the song on my mac .. should i be able to?

By: Tuts

Tuts — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:23:24 +0000

Thanks Heaps!! Great Tip and very well presented.

By: Robbie

Robbie — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:39:46 +0000

Thanks so much! That was TOO EASY!

By: jim

jim — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:03:39 +0000

For 10.5, go under ‘general’ then click on ‘import settings’, make sure you’re using the MP3 Encoder, then right click on the songs you want to convert and click ‘create MP3 version’

By: Wes

Wes — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:07:53 +0000

This was so much help! It saved my butt on a school assignment.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:27:35 +0000

Cheers Davit, that has been very helpful.

By: cbenci

cbenci — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:06:22 +0000

The could be other reasons to want to do this apart from audio quality – such as wanting to play the files on a different device.

Foolish comment.

By: TRS

TRS — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:30:33 +0000

I am on iTunes 10.5.1.42 & this option is not there. What next?

By: Joe Rioux

Joe Rioux — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:17:15 +0000

The POINT is to convert the proprietary Apple format to a format that is non-proprietary. Then you can share and copy your damn files that you PAID FOR, as much as you like, without iTunes Nazi madness trying to tell you that you can’t.

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:40:38 +0000

i feel really thick because everywhere i’ve been people have managed to work it out, but on lion that’s not how my system preferences looks. when i press system prefs > general, there is absolutely nothing on import format. it just lists appearance choices… i’m so lost! haha.