[dsawler]

What program does this for free? for some reason itunes is only allowing me to "convert for ipod" (even thought it already is) instead of letting me choose "convert to mp3/aac"

[dsawler]

oh yeah, I don't have Quicktime Pro.

[mac1896]

Originally Posted by dsawler 

oh yeah, I don't have Quicktime Pro.

I don't believe that QTPro will help you here.

If the songs that you are trying to convert to .mp3 are downloaded from the iTunes Music Store, then you will have to:

1. Burn music to a cd as AUDIO.

2. Import the now -AUDIO cd into iTunes, where they can now be burned as .mp3s

In the iTunes preferences under IMPORTING you can choose to import cds as .mp3 format. It will translate on the fly and show up as a .mp3 in your library.

I too would like to download as .mp3 format and avoid all this bull****, but as of yet, all of the websites that I've found, none of them support Macs. I haven't yet found an app to translate iTunes mp4 format to mp3 (and that's just the way Apple likes it !).

[dsawler]

well the mp4 was a video file from which i was just trying to extract the audio, and i think i read somewhere that quicktime pro would do that. i found a program called Wire Tap that did it just fine, though.