Burning an MP3 CD from AACs

[themacko]

So iTunes apparently doesn't convert AACs to MP3s when you tell it to burn a cd in MP3 format. That's fine, I suppose I can understand the legal reasons behind this.

What I need though, is an app that WILL do this. I'm not looking for something that will strip the security stuff off of my AACs purchased through iTunes, but for the songs that I imported off CDs as AAC I'd like to be able to burn them as MP3s without having to convert each one manually before-hand. Will Toast do this?

 

[Arden]

I doubt Toast will do this.

If these are songs you imported from CD's, you'd be best importing them as MP3's because converting them to MP3 from AAC (no matter how many formats you use between the two) will lower the quality significantly.

 

[Pengu]

Try it. Tell toast to make an MP3-cd, and then instead of clicking Burn, goto File > Save as Disc Image

 

[fryke]

Well, I guess not. It'll just make a data CD instead of an Audio CD. You'll have to use some kind of converter. However, I think you _can_ use iTunes. Just select all songs and then convert selection to MP3... However: You'll lose some sound quality and it might take a while.

 

[themacko]

Yeah the sound quality I'm not too worried about, I'll just be playing these CDs in a car and in a boom box. I just don't want to have to manually find all the AAC songs, select and then convert them, THEN burn the CD, then delete the MP3 versions. Maybe I'm lazy, that seems like a hassle to me.