(With Toast, click on the Convert tab, then choose Audio Files from the popup menu near the top of the window.) With all three of these programs, conversion involves choosing an output format and bit rate, and dragging the files you want to convert onto the program’s window or icon. These are the most common formats for audio files. (Converting from one lossy format to another will result in a very slight, but not noticeable, loss of quality.) Click OK several times to to save your settings and to close the Preferences window. But you can choose the same bit rate, so if you have 256-kbps AAC files from the iTunes Store, choose Custom from the Setting pop-up menu, and then set the Stereo Bit Rate pop-up entry to 256 Kbps to make sure you don’t lose any quality. You should never choose a higher bit rate than your original files your music won’t sound any better. You can then make changes to these settings-for example, if you want to convert your files to MP3 format, choose MP3 Encoder from the Import Using menu. This shows your current CD-ripping settings (which also apply to conversions made with iTunes). Open iTunes’ preferences, click on the General icon, then click on the Import Settings button near the bottom of the window. Here’s how:įind the files you want to convert and add them to a new playlist. Say you have some AAC files you bought from the iTunes Store (DRM-free, as all recent iTunes music comes) and want to play them on a device that only supports MP3 files iTunes can do this for you. You can convert to or from any of these formats as needed. iTunes supports AAC, Apple Lossless, MP3, AIFF, and WAV files. Even though this window says Import Settings, it’s where you choose the settings to convert files.īut you can use iTunes to convert in other ways as well.

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