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Step 1
Purchase songs. After you legally buy mp3 music, create a play-list in iTunes.
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Step 2
Create an audio CD. Take your playlist and burn an audio CD. In iTunes, there will be a “Burn Disc” button at the bottom right corner of your screen.
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Step 3
Set your mp3 decoder. In iTunes, click on “edit” at the top left of your screen. You will then click “preferences” located at the bottom of the pull down menu.
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Step 4
Under the “General” tab, look down to where it says: “When you insert CD: Ask to Import CD”, click “Import Settings…”
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Step 5
On “Import Settings” look to “Import Using: AAC Encoder”. Change that to “MP3 Encoder”. Click “Okay” and this will close preferences screen.
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Step 6
Make sure your recently burned audio CD is in your CD drive. On iTunes, click “Import CD” on the bottom right corner of your screen. ITunes will now convert the songs to a general MP3 Format. You may need to rename the songs. Sometimes they will show up in your library as “track 1” “track 2” etc….Write down your playlist prior to the conversion process in case you need to do that.
