Frustrating but all music is on I Tunes/I Pod which will now in latest edition not allow to convert to Mp3 can only change new downloads.

Would like to covert some 9gb of music on my windows 7 laptop to put on SD

Any ideas?

Did download some softwear which brought some ASK files that took some shifting and did work but would take several months to convert any volume.

Cheers

Peter

I use iTunes and iPod but had no issue in copying my music to an SD card?

Most of my music was not purchased through iTunes though but was ripped from CDs

Bolero will only play Mp3s and all my music is saved in Apple format.I do have the original Cd`s of some but most were borrowed nd copied onto i tunes.

Is there an export function/option within iTunes? I'm not totally ofay with iTunes TBH

In another thread someone said this:

One thing you could do, if you wished to sync an SD card / USB Disk / Android Phone with iTunes, and have your playlists, genius playlists etc available on said devices is look at Doubletwist.

It's free, runs on Windows or Mac's and allows you to sync your iTunes Library with pretty much any device. I use it to sync with my SD Card mounted inside my Galaxy S2, then when it's connected to the MDI, all my music is there, all my playlists I have full control over it all through my Columbus and the MFSW, the phone is also being charged.

http://doubletwist.com/

I've not used it yet. But is sounds ideal. Also look here:

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/177515-music-to-sd-card-for-apple-mac-users/

In another thread someone said this:

One thing you could do, if you wished to sync an SD card / USB Disk / Android Phone with iTunes, and have your playlists, genius playlists etc available on said devices is look at Doubletwist.

It's free, runs on Windows or Mac's and allows you to sync your iTunes Library with pretty much any device. I use it to sync with my SD Card mounted inside my Galaxy S2, then when it's connected to the MDI, all my music is there, all my playlists I have full control over it all through my Columbus and the MFSW, the phone is also being charged.

http://doubletwist.com/

I've not used it yet. But is sounds ideal. Also look here:

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/177515-music-to-sd-card-for-apple-mac-users/

Someone else somewhere on this forum suggested: AppleMacSoft DRM Converter. It is not free though.

All of that asuming you are on a MAC!

When I was running XP with the Windows Player there was a setting when saving a CD that saved it as MP3. Does windows 7 have the same option?

tom

Indeed every version of iTunes has always allowed for all music file types (included DRM protected iTunes files) to be burnt to a CD as MP3. If you have enough CDs do it that way and THEN copy the music back to a hard drive.

I'll get a reply in before this gets moved to I.C.E

I'm in the process of working on this problem, and it is possible, but time consuming.

If you select the edit option on the tool bar and 'select all', then go to the advanced section on the tool bar and select 'create MP3 version' it will then make an MP3 version of all your itunes library, including music purchased from itunes. Negative to this- your itunes library will show every track twice, the same as in your 'music' file, which means if you just want to copy all your music across you need to have a sd card twice the size of your music collection. So for 9gb of music you will need say a 20gb card. Or you can do what i am doing which is seperating all the music in the my music folder and then copying only the MP3 versions across, but this takes (is taking) a long time. But when you have done this, you can have all your itunes music in MP3 format.

Hope that makes sense, it kinda does to me! My progress is on hold atm, as i am considering buying a new phones that can stream the music via bluetooth

Good luck

Angrybeard, your method works but is a faff. I did it and it works but clutters up iTunes and the SD card which you make-over hours of fiddly labour then works a bit like an iPod but without the element of instant response or on screen control which I was used to. It is a tedious workaround for a problem which Skoda have foisted on their customers -no doubt to "differentiate" from VAG/AUDI who sell similar parts assembled in a more expensive selection.

I got an MDI and now have an iPod in the glove box which works as it should.

Sony Media Manager will read all files (including apple lossless) and works fine with memory cards. I used this as I have a PSP (so had the software installed) and my entire collection on itunes is lossless (90gb at last count) due to having an ipod classic.

I have it installed and set a play list up for the tracka/artists/songs I want for the SD card - set the SD card options to the MP3 compression you like and then it will sync them all across converting on the fly.

It will take a while as the conversion takes place for each file prior to copy, but can be left to run. My 8gb card took about 3 hours to do but thats on a laptop and not the latest spec processor.

Main advantage is a lack of duplicate files on your PC but exactly what you want on the SD card. Also works for any other "removable device" such as other MP3 players and phones.

Note: I have no purchased tracks on itunes (only 2 Amazon albums) - all others ripped from CDs - no idea whether it has issues with purchased tracks.

Edited 22 November, 201114 yr by Lemming

When ripping cd's I have i tunes set to only create mp3, not aac files. I can then go onto i tunes and use 'open in explorer' to find album and copy it to sd card. (No help if you buy direct from i tunes I suppose)

Try this , the free version should be able to convert to MP3 for you.

http://www.nch.com.au/switch/mp3.html?gclid=CMyAiPD1yqwCFcQf4QodKhZSqw

I'll get a reply in before this gets moved to I.C.E

I'm in the process of working on this problem, and it is possible, but time consuming.

If you select the edit option on the tool bar and 'select all', then go to the advanced section on the tool bar and select 'create MP3 version' it will then make an MP3 version of all your itunes library, including music purchased from itunes. Negative to this- your itunes library will show every track twice, the same as in your 'music' file, which means if you just want to copy all your music across you need to have a sd card twice the size of your music collection. So for 9gb of music you will need say a 20gb card. Or you can do what i am doing which is seperating all the music in the my music folder and then copying only the MP3 versions across, but this takes (is taking) a long time. But when you have done this, you can have all your itunes music in MP3 format.

Hope that makes sense, it kinda does to me! My progress is on hold atm, as i am considering buying a new phones that can stream the music via bluetooth

Good luck

Thanks AB but would you beleive it the create MP3 version option is now missing from advanced on the latest version which I decided to download very recently!!

Cheers

Peter

Typical

Thanks AB but would you beleive it the create MP3 version option is now missing from advanced on the latest version which I decided to download very recently!!

I use iTunes on a Mac not a PC so it may work differently but I have had a similar problem with new versions of iTunes. It turned out that the format offered by the "Create ... Version" option on the Advanced menu was determined by the Import Settings in the Preferences, and the new version of iTunes had managed to reset that. Might be worth checking that the setting for importing a CD is set to MP3, wherever that lives on the PC version.

I can certainly vouch that iTunes on my Mac, which was updated very recently, still allows MP3 versions to be created.

I use iTunes on a Mac not a PC so it may work differently but I have had a similar problem with new versions of iTunes. It turned out that the format offered by the "Create ... Version" option on the Advanced menu was determined by the Import Settings in the Preferences, and the new version of iTunes had managed to reset that. Might be worth checking that the setting for importing a CD is set to MP3, wherever that lives on the PC version.

I can certainly vouch that iTunes on my Mac, which was updated very recently, still allows MP3 versions to be created.

It has moved to the general tab in preferences. just change import settings to mp3 encoder. (on my mac running iTunes 10.5.1

It has moved to the general tab in preferences. just change import settings to mp3 encoder. (on my mac running iTunes 10.5.1

I know where it is on OS X. The point I was trying to make is that the OP is on Windows 7 and I have no idea how the iTunes menus are organised on that OS.

I've converted hundreds of bought iTunes AAC files to MP3 using Aimersoft convertor (about $30 I think, I'd already removed the DRM on older iTunes AAC files for wireless home streaming). Alternatively Handbrake can do it for free but you need to add files 1 by 1.

All my tunes now in MP3 AND AAC format and the MP3s on a large SD card in the car. Awesome, make sure you choose a high bit rate for audio quality, Bolero can handle up to 320kbps.

Right, I've just downloaded iTunes 10.5 to my office PC running XP.

The import settings are under the Edit->Preferences menu, General tab. The default import format as downloaded was AAC but MP3 is on the drop-down list. Set it to MP3 and "Create MP3 Version" appears on the Advanced menu. The standard bitrates offered for MP3 conversion are 128kbps, 160kbps and 192kbps, but custom settings allow up to 320kbps. (I'd suggest there's no point in using a higher bitrate than the source copy of the track.)

No need to spend money on other software, or even install freeware, to do the conversion. You will probably need to use something else to break the DRM on protected content.

I was referring to AAC files already bought via iTunes converting to MP3. Like you mention, I have re-ripped some favourite CDs to MP3 format (originally I was all AAC) just to get a good quality MP3 for the Yeti.

I was also happy to pay a few quid to get all the DRM off my tracks via iTunes for OLD (pre 2009) files I bought. New bought tracks dont have DRM so easy to convert to MP3.

Try this free s/w Free M4a to MP3 Converter 7.0

You can drag a list of files to convert, and it will chunter through them until it is done. It takes time, but you don't have to baby-sit it. I converted 1.6GB in about 2 days on a ordinary laptop. The conversion was ten times quicker on a faster laptop. The program appears not to be threaded, so if you have a multi-core processor, divide the conversion into multiple batches and do 2 or 4 at once depending how many cores your processor has.

Frustrating but all music is on I Tunes/I Pod which will now in latest edition not allow to convert to Mp3 can only change new downloads.

Would like to covert some 9gb of music on my windows 7 laptop to put on SD

Any ideas?

Did download some softwear which brought some ASK files that took some shifting and did work but would take several months to convert any volume.

Cheers

Peter

32GB SDHC for not many pennies - be quick - ends at midnight!

http://lyxus.net/ipnd

Thanks for the heads up, I have no idea what i'm looking at when it comes to memory cards, so many choices/versions/etc

Whats anyone else using in there bolero, any problems with card speed etc?

Every card I have used so far works OK in the Bolero.

Edited 28 November, 201114 yr by freedie

32GB is the largest SD card the Bolero and Columbus can handle; Class 10 is the quickest.

Info on SD cards here: http://en.wikipedia...._Digital#Speeds