Exporting mp3

carpenterken · Mar 9, 2011

Sorry, but I'm a bit behind times when it comes to I tunes. Any how, I bought a new radio for my boat, and it has a sd slot to play mp3s. I looked, but can not find a way to export mp3s out of I tunes?
I am using the version that came on my power mac g4. osx 10.4.11
Can any one help me out here?
Thank You,
Ken (an old dude)

Kevriano · Mar 9, 2011

You can simply drag and drop the tunes from the iTunes window onto the SD card when it's connected to the Mac.
So plug the SD card into a reader, and it will mount on the desktop as an HD icon, and then from the iTunes window, pick the songs you want and drag them to the SD Card. That's it.

carpenterken · Mar 9, 2011

Thank you, but will it export as a mp3?
Also, I should format the card first. I have never found a way to do this on my mac.
Can anyone help me with that?

Kevriano · Mar 9, 2011

Yes it will export as MP3, no problem there. Ypu could also just drag the files from the folders in your iTunes music library.
Do not format the card. It will be FAT32 by default, and that's just fine.

carpenterken · Mar 9, 2011

Kevriano said:
You could also just drag the files from the folders in your iTunes music library.

This is what I did the first try, and was only able to get 3 songs on a 128 mb card. Is that all a 128 card will hold?

It will not let me drag them from itunes?

Kevriano · Mar 9, 2011

3 songs is not many, no, you should get more, unless your files are WAV and not MP3.
On average I would say you should get 20-30 on there, depending on bit rate/file size.
Strange that you can't drag from iTunes.
Is the SD card definitely empty? If so you could reformat it in Disk Utility.
Come back to me if you need to know how.

vansmith · Mar 9, 2011

If the song is not in mp3 format, simply right click them and select "Create MP3 Version." If it instead says "Create AAC Version", go to iTunes > Preferences > General > Import Settings... > change Import Using to MP3 Encoder.

You should be able to fit much more than 3 songs onto a 128MB SD card assuming they are "regular length" (3 - 5 minutes). If you drag them to your Desktop, are they mp3 versions of the song? How long are they?

carpenterken · Mar 9, 2011

vansmith said:
If the song is not in mp3 format, simply right click them and select "Create MP3 Version." If it instead says "Create AAC Version", go to iTunes > Preferences > General > Import Settings... > change Import Using to MP3 Encoder.

You should be able to fit much more than 3 songs onto a 128MB SD card assuming they are "regular length" (3 - 5 minutes). If you drag them to your Desktop, are they mp3 versions of the song? How long are they?

Yes this was the trouble. They where the m4a format. Thank you, to both of you.

Exporting mp3

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