I've ripped some of my CDs into iTunes but I don't actually own an ipod. In order to get these songs onto my mp3 player I'd like to convert them to mp3s.
Is there a tool that lets me do a 'batch mp3 export' of my itunes library?
For the record, this is not a veiled attempt to circumvent DRM. 🙂 None of my music has come from the iTunes Store.
Bonus points if the tool lets me specify the format of the names of the files it outputs. For example:
<tracknumber> <song title> - <artist>.mp3
Best Answer
iTunes itself can do that. I presume you ripped your songs without changing the import settings in preferences, and they got ripped as AAC, right? Just go to Preferences, Import Settings:
Set it to Import Using MP3 Encoder, and select the quality setting you want.
Now you can right-click a bunch of songs in your library, and select “Create MP3 Version” to convert them all.
This also affects any CDs you import from now on, so I’d suggest re-ripping them directly to MP3 instead of converting your existing files, to avoid any further loss of quality from converting from AAC to MP3.