Some older music players do not sync with itunes but require you to manually copy an mp3 file onto them. Here is how to convert a song that you have in iTunes into an MP3 file so you can copy it to your mp3 player. • Go to the iTunes menu and select preferences, go to the tab called General and click the button called Import Settings • Select mp3 encoder, and choose a bit rate. (128kbps is the minimum for reasonable audio, above 192 the average listener won’t tell the difference, 320kbps is insanely good). Personally I can’t tell the difference between iTunes and LAME at 320kbps. Not on any of the gear that I listen to it on and not with my 39 year old ears! There are still people in the forums who hold that LAME is better.

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I just use the iTunes importer on AAC 320kbps at the moment. As hard disks expand there could be a case for using AIFF lossless for all your music! This post is more about getting your AAC files exported to mp3, which if you do, is bad for audio – once you recompress audio (eg from AAC to mp3) you lose a lot of quality. So for example 320kbps mp3 recompressed down to 128kbps mp3 is worse than straight compression to 128kbps mp3.