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Saving iTunes library to memory stick

Martin29

Martin29

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I want to save some of my music which is in iTunes onto a usb memory stick which I can then play using a distant music player. I need to save the music in mp3 format.
Can't see any way to do this, only to burn to an optical disk... Surely something as simple as this can be done, can someone tell me how?

Many thanks in advance.
 
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Jb07

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Oct 31, 2011
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Martin29 said:
I want to save some of my music which is in iTunes onto a usb memory stick which I can then play using a distant music player. I need to save the music in mp3 format.
Can't see any way to do this, only to burn to an optical disk... Surely something as simple as this can be done, can someone tell me how?

Many thanks in advance.
Click to expand...

Just drag and drop the songs you want into a folder and copy it onto the flash drive.
 
Martin29

Martin29

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Jb07 said:
Just drag and drop the songs you want into a folder and copy it onto the flash drive.
Click to expand...

This produces Apple MPEG-4 Audio files.. I need to export them to MP-3 but can't see how to do so. My music player won't read the MPEG-4 format.

There must be a way to do something so simple without resorting to optical drives?
 
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Jb07

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Oct 31, 2011
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Martin29 said:
This produces Apple MPEG-4 Audio files.. I need to export them to MP-3 but can't see how to do so. My music player won't read the MPEG-4 format.

There must be a way to do something so simple without resorting to optical drives?
Click to expand...

Are you sure all your music is in MP3 format? I just tried dragging and dropping and it copied to the folder as MP3.
 
Martin29

Martin29

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My music is all in Apple music MPEG-4 on my hard drive. What I need is a facility to convert to MP3 or else to export the files in MP3 format as would be the case if I were to burn a CD.
 
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TheAdamUK

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Hi

If you highlight all the tracks you want to convert to MP3 in iTunes and then right click on one of them you should see an option of convert to MP3
 
Martin29

Martin29

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TheAdamUK said:
Hi

If you highlight all the tracks you want to convert to MP3 in iTunes and then right click on one of them you should see an option of convert to MP3
Click to expand...

That is true, and I convert to MP3, then try to drag the files to my flash drive..

Then when I look at the format on the flash drive they are all MPEG-4!!
 
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TheAdamUK

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I can't think of anything else as it works perfectly for me

I don't want to insult you but are you sure your moving the MP3 and not MPEG-4 across
 
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