music converter

[slavatrumpevitch]

Does anyone know of a way to convert mp4 music files to mp3?

[OrbWeaver]

The easiest way is probably to use a tool that can play MP4 and export to WAV, and then encode the WAV to MP3 in the normal way. Maybe WinAmp can do this.

 

You will of course lose quality in the process, unless you use a very high MP3 bitrate.

[Chiron]

I hope you are talking about unprotected mp4's.

 

There are several methods:

Versatile Players like foobar200 have a built-in converter which make it easy to convert from almost any format to another.

 

But I guess the easiest way for you is the dBpoweramp Music Converter:

 

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

 

and don't forget to install all the codecs you need:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central.htm.

 

 

And as OrbWeaver said, transcoding from one lossy format to another will always result in quality loss.

[Domarius]

Does anyone know of a way to convert mp4 music files to mp3?

If you're talking about ones you just bought through iTunes, no - it's impossible to do it directly.

 

But iTunes lets you burn a plain audio CD of any songs you want.

 

So just burn to a re-writable CD, then use any MP3 ripping tool (even Windows Media player, you can rip straight to unprotected wmv which is more or less the same thing) and you're good to upload them to your favorite mp3 player. That's what I do.