iTunes.

[jenarelJAM]

Sorry to threadjack a little bit, but I have a similar question, and rather than create a new thread about it...

All of my music is in AAC format. I know exactly where it is, I know exactly how it's organized on my hard drive. What I want is some way to convert it back into mp3 format. Is this possible? I mean, My ipod is kinda dying, and actually, I lost it a couple nights ago anyways, dunno if I'll find it. And I don't really feel like paying $250 for a new ipod, so I was thinking I might find some other kind of mp3 player. Except... with all my songs in AAC format, I'm kinda locked into itunes and ipods. All my songs are unprotected, so don't worry about that, I was just wondering if anyone knew how to convert them?
Thanks.

Oh, and Tropical Fishy, the only thing I can think of happening to yours is that perhaps a folder got renamed, and all the songs under it were then "lost" from itunes' records. If you can remember the song titles, try Start>Search>type in a song>wait a really long time and see if it finds it. If it does, then quite possibly, you'll find the rest of them in the same folder.

[tropical_fishy]

I wrestled with iTunes (instead of reading Cane and The Walls of Jericho for class tomorrow) and I won.

Mwahahahaha, bend over and take that, apple. And next time you try to delete my music, I will be READY FOR YOU.

It is on.

[Hexis]

Sorry to threadjack a little bit, but I have a similar question, and rather than create a new thread about it...

All of my music is in AAC format. I know exactly where it is, I know exactly how it's organized on my hard drive. What I want is some way to convert it back into mp3 format. Is this possible?

Possible and easy. Set your import settings in iTunes to your MP3 format and bit rate settings of choice (I would match the AAC bitrate you imported things as). Then select your music and right click. You will see a "Convert Selection to MP3" option. Do that, it will take a while. Then you can list the music by type and delete all of the AAC files.

[pennywise]

All of my music is in AAC format. I know exactly where it is, I know exactly how it's organized on my hard drive. What I want is some way to convert it back into mp3 format. Is this possible? I mean, My ipod is kinda dying, and actually, I lost it a couple nights ago anyways, dunno if I'll find it. And I don't really feel like paying $250 for a new ipod, so I was thinking I might find some other kind of mp3 player. Except... with all my songs in AAC format, I'm kinda locked into itunes and ipods. All my songs are unprotected, so don't worry about that, I was just wondering if anyone knew how to convert them?
Thanks.

The iPod is not the only player that will play AAC.
AAC is not Apple's proprietary format.

Just be sure that whatever new player you buy will play AAC files.

[thecavemankevin]

I wrestled with iTunes (instead of reading Cane and The Walls of Jericho for class tomorrow) and I won.

Mwahahahaha, bend over and take that, apple. And next time you try to delete my music, I will be READY FOR YOU.

It is on.

so, what happened, where did you find them?

next time, just let itune auto scan your hard disk for music files to import into itunes. it should find them then.

[tropical_fishy]

so, what happened, where did you find them?

next time, just let itune auto scan your hard disk for music files to import into itunes. it should find them then.

I don't know what happened to them, I just ran a search for one of the artists I knew were lost somewhere within my computer and found them, and then just re-imported everything to iTunes. When I have more time/am not dying/have slept/have eaten/do not have three papers and a test to do in a week, i'm probably going to switch over to winamp.