Simple Ways to Convert iTunes to MP3

You must be familiar with the M4P or M4A format if you frequently purchase music from iTunes. The reason why these two audio formats you are very impressed is that you cannot play songs in M4P/M4A on many phones and MP3 players. You are only allowed to play them with iTunes, iPod or other Apple devices. M4A also refers to Apple Lossless Encoder (ALE). As a file extension created by Apple, M4A is alongside Advanced Audio Coding (AAC). You also have a big chance to download iTunes music which called "protected AAC" with the file extension of ".m4p". Both of them possess greater audio quality and small data size than MP3.

No matter how good they are, things will become totally pointless if you even can't play them. So under many circumstance, you need to convert iTunes M4P/M4A to MP3 to support your playing device. Fortunately, it's simple to convert iTunes to the universally compatible MP3 format. And in this article, we will show you how to make audio conversion from M4P/M4A to MP3 with iTunes and professional audio converter.

• Part 1. Convert iTunes to MP3 with iTunes
• Part 2. Convert iTunes to MP3 with professional audio converter

Convert iTunes to MP3 with iTunes

When you want to deal with some iOS issues, iTunes can always be the first choice. And iTunes indeed has the capability to help you convert M4P/M4A to MP3. Here are the steps:

1. Launch the latest iTunes on your computer.

2. Click "Edit" on the top list and then choose "Preferences...".

3. Click "General" > "Import Settings" > select "MP3 Encoder" from the "Import Using".

4. Click "Setting" and choose "Custom..." to set the "Stereo Bit Rate/Sample Rate/Channels" and more according to your need.

5. Click "OK" consecutively to exit the windows and save the settings.

6. Find the song you want to convert and right click it.

7. Click "Create MP3 Version" to make a copy of this song in MP3 format.

You can easily convert iTunes to MP3 with this method. However, you have to convert all your favorite songs one by one. It's really a waste of time. What's more, this converting process will lose some audio quality.

Convert iTunes to MP3 with professional audio converter

For many iOS users, iTunes is not an easy-to-use tool to convert iTunes music to MP3. So here we sincerely recommend a powerful Audio Converter to help you do that. Whether you want to convert M4P/M4A to MP3 or convert iTunes movies to MP4, this software can be your best choice. First, you should download and install it on your computer.

Step 1 Install and launch this iTunes audio converting software on your PC/Mac.

Step 2 Click "Add Files" to load the songs you want to convert into the program.

Step 3 Click "Convert All to" and select "MP3" from the drop-down list.

Step 4 You can go to the "Save to" field to choose the destination folder for the output MP3 audios.

Step 5 In the end, click "Convert All" to convert iTunes M4P/M4A to MP3.

Within just a few seconds, all the selected iTunes music will be converted to MP3. In addition, the converted MP3 songs will keep exactly the original audio quality. This all-featured software can also help you to convert iTunes MP4 movies to MP3 with easy.

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In this article, we mainly talk about how to convert iTunes to MP3. Whether you want to convert M4P/M4A to MP3 or change iTunes movies to MP4, you can find the suitable method in this post.