Posted by BillL on 11/17/10 11:45

"Richard H" <Spam.Blocker@I.Dont.Want.No.Spam.INVALID> wrote in message
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> On 19/4/2006 12:09 pm, in article
> 1145444946.686057.106780@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com,
> "griff.phillips@gmail.com" <griff.phillips@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> OK maybe I'm being dumb here but I would appreciate some help...
>>
>> I have a large Itunes library. My Ipod shuffle has just completely died
>> (after less than a year) so I'm going to buy a non-Apple MP3 player
>> instead. So I want to convert all my Itunes to MP3.
>>
>> Everyone tells me that all I need to do is right-click on the song in
>> Itunes (I'm using v.6.0).
>> When I do this the only option I get is "Convert Selection to AAC". But
>> these are AACs already, as I can tell from looking up the "Get Info |
>> Kind" information for that song.
>>
>> So how do I convert my Itunes collection to MP3s ? (nb these are all
>> ripped from CD, not bought from the Itunes store, so no DRM
>> implications hopefully).
>>
>
> The *convert* function follows your importing option
>
> So: set your importing option in advanced preferences to *MP3 Encoder*
> (it's
> probably now set to AAC Encoder) !
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Doesn't iTunes contain a form of DRM which functions to prevent the
conversion of AAC files (purchased from the iTunes store) to any other
format?

BillL

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