Burn iTunes to Thumb Drive

How do I burn songs from my iTumes library to a thumb drive? Would like to burn a whole playlist.

The burn functionality is meant to burn discs. What you want to do is export a selection of songs to a thumb drive.

Here's a tutorial on how to do that:

How to Export Songs From iTunes to a Thumb Drive | eHow.com

cwa107 said:

The burn functionality is meant to burn discs. What you want to do is export a selection of songs to a thumb drive.

Here's a tutorial on how to do that:

How to Export Songs From iTunes to a Thumb Drive | eHow.com

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Thanks, the process appears to be very cumbersome bvut workable.

datwell said:

Thanks, the process appears to be very cumbersome bvut workable.

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One more issue, How do I convert the ".M4A" format to MP3 ??

datwell said:

One more issue, How do I convert the ".M4A" format to MP3 ??

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You can do this from within iTunes itself, though you will want to be sure that you actually want to do this -- MP3 is not as good a format, and loses the ability to bookmark (important for audiobook files and podcasts), album art and other extras. You also lose a bit of fidelity by converting from one lossy format into another.

Anyway, in iTunes preferences you set your default conversion format to MP3. Once that is done, you can select any non-MP3 song in your library and choose "Convert to MP3" from the Advanced menu.

Thanks

I have never seen an option in iTunes to convert to MP3 but having seen the above post looked again. Nothing in the Advanced menu or anywhere else BUT

A much better way anyway is to install something like Music Converter Pro (almost free from App Store). This allows you to just drag into it any track or folder or even the entire iTunes library and define where you want the mp3 copies. Easy quick and works.

There are other copy utilities but the above is the best one I have found.

AndyClift said:

I have never seen an option in iTunes to convert to MP3 but having seen the above post looked again. Nothing in the Advanced menu or anywhere else BUT

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iTunes > Preferences > General > Import Settings... > Import Using > MP3 Encoder.