MPEG 4 to MP3

[TechnoLaydee]

Can anyone tell me how to convert an MPEG4 music file from itunes to an MP3? thanks!

[mrbenn]

soundforge possibly? Im not sure if you can but I expect you could open the mpeg4 file and save it as an mp3

[TechnoLaydee]

is that expensive to buy do u no?

[Mirsha]

I wouldn't really think about doing it unless you absoloutely have to, you will lose sound quality in changing it, you can just get a mp4 plugin in surely for your listening program of choice and use that.

[TechnoLaydee]

ah right i see, oh well the problem was that my sisters ipod has converted all the music on the computer to itunes which are in mpeg4 format so it wont allow me to burn mine onto a cd as mp3s

[herman]

Not sure how its done as i dont have the latest Itunes in my Mac but i know you can convert mp4 to mp3 on itunes itself.

[yeswehavetheright]

Simplest way is to burn an audio CD from itunes, then rip the tracks off the audio CD into any format you want using your CD burning software.

[MangaFish]

Can anyone tell me how to convert an MPEG4 music file from itunes to an MP3? thanks!

i thought mpeg4 was video and audio

[mr acid]

I think that if you go to the prefferences menu, and change the importing codec u'll have the problem solved.

IS the extention of the file MP4, M4U, or MPEG4 ????

[TechMouse]

MPEG 4 is an audio / video compression standard.

mp3 is MPEG Audio Layer 3 - i.e. an audio compression standard.

What format does stuff come off iTunes in then?