Saving Itunes songs as MP3?

[theordinaryboy]

hi junglen

i stumbled across this post by accident and was so happoy when i read it as i have exactly the same problem.

However, i have tried doing what you said but i cant get the option to convert to mp3.

This is exactly what i have done,

1. I placed an album i bought in the shops (the go! team) into my cd drive and imported it into itunes.

2. I then burned it onto a cd:r.

3. I then imported that cd:r back onto itunes.

At that point it asked me if i wanted to replace the existing files, i did not know what to do here so i chose not to replace the files.

I then right clicked on the selected songs and was given the option to convert to AAC (whatever that is) but i was not give the option of converting to mp3.

Please could you help me out here as i have many albums that i cannot listen to outside of my house.

Please also excuse me for any retardedness as i am not the most computer minded person.

Cheers

[icepick]

You could just set iTunes to rip directly to MP3 and eliminate the conversion step.

[cwsiggy]

Why use Itunes? Why not rip with EAC and have the compression convert to MP3 using lame.

Your question has pretty much been answered, but here are the specifics:

* open iTunes
* click Edit --> preferences
* in the dialog that open, click the advanced tab
* click the Importing tab
* change your import settings to MP3, select your bit rate preferences, etc.

[theordinaryboy]

cheers guys

yeah i should have checked around itunes a bit more before asking, everything is good now.

Thanks again