iTunes: AAC->MP3 encoder
 

Every week or so, my iPod decides it will not play any of the music I've purchased on iTunes. Its a bug, AFAIK. If I plug my iPod into my computer and let it synch the problem goes away, but this is unacceptable since I am on the road from Sunday-Thursday every week.

As with any other Mac problem I have, other Mac people just tell me they've never had this issue and that their stuff 'just works'. The tech forums are no help, either. The best I can tell, this only happens with my Mac formatted iTunes purchased music. None of the MP3s or the music I've imported from CD (as MP3s) in my library have the issue. I can't find a documented solution, so I want all of my music converted to MP3 and exported from iTunes so that it can be re-imported and I wont have this issue.

Can someone recommend an encoder that will convert all of the proprietary Mac formatted music I've purchased on iTunes to MP3s? Is this even possible?

TIA

You can convert from AAC to MP3 by first burning the AAC files to disc then ripping back to the machine as MP3.

There may be another way, but the above method works.

FWIW.

Best,

Kurt

Kurt is right. You have to burn the songs to a CD, and then encode the CD as mp3s.