You can convert any audio file supported to Audacity to 3 files types: MP3, WAV, and Ogg Vorbis.
- From Audacity, click "Project" > Select "Import Audio."
- Navigate to the file you want to convert > Click [Open].
- Click "File."
- You have three "Export As" options.
- Name and place your file > Click [Save].
The difference between MP3 and WAV is a matter of “compressed” or “lossless” formats. MP3 is compressed, and WAV files are uncompressed. The answer is this, you want WAV files for editing a podcast, and MP3 files for distribution (think iTunes). To draw a visual comparison, images can be high and low resolution.
MP3 and AAC are both lossy audio formats and both can be played by iPhone, iPod, iTunes, etc but each audio format is designed with different strengths and weaknesses in size and quality. As for audio quality AAC sounds better than MP3 at similar bitrates, but audio quality difference is bigger at lower bitrates.
Choose import options
Your choices affect the audio quality and size of the song file (the higher the quality, the larger the file size). In the iTunes app on your Mac, choose iTunes > Preferences, click General, then click Import Settings. Choose an encoding format from the Import Using pop-up menu.How to import a song at high quality into iTunes using just iTunes.
- Open iTunes, on the iTunes menu select Preferences. Then on the general tab select Import Settings.
- On the settings window select 'AAC Encoder' and 'Custom' as follows:
- Select 320kbps. Sample rate can be auto or 44.1 VBR doesn't matter really.
How to convert iTunes to MP3's?
- Open Itunes and select My Music.
- Highlight a song from your list, and hit Ctrl + A to highlight all songs or hold Crtl and highlight the songs you want to convert.
- Next select File from the tool bar in the top left corn.
- From the list select Create New Version another list will appear select Create MP3 Version.
iPhone supports a number of video formats, such as H. 264, MP4, . MOV, . M4V, MP3, and AAC.
The first step is to go to YouTube and copy a link to a video that you want to convert to iTunes. To convert the video to Apple devices paste the URL in the Freemake YouTube Converter. Then in a different window select Convert to iPod/iPhone or to iPad/iPad 2 and choose Export to iTunes.
Video on the iPhone
When recording videos on the iPhone, the files are saved as H. 264 QuickTime files. These use the MOV file format. Videos purchased in the iTunes store come in M4V format, with "FairPlay digital rights management" built in.Select "Video" → "General" → "Custom MP4." This will set Adapter to convert your files to the MP4 format, which is compatible with iTunes. If you're adding these videos to iTunes so that you can sync them with your iOS device, select the preset for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod in the "Apple" section of the Output menu.
Locate the video file you want to put into your iTunes library. To select multiple files, hold down Control (Windows) or Command (Mac) as you click. Click "Open." Once you have selected all of your files, click "OK" or "Open" to add them to your library. Drag and drop the file (alternate method).
To play a video in iTunes, just select it in your library and then click the Play button. iTunes is versatile when it comes to playing videos — the TV shows, movies, video podcasts, and music videos you downloaded from the iTunes Store as well as the video files you dragged into iTunes from other sources.
iPhone supports the following music formats:
- AIFF.
- WAV (a large, but popular format, especially in video editing)
- AAX.
- AAX+
- AA.
- MP3 (one of the most standard and ubiquitous formats in the world)
- MP3 VBR.
- ALAC.
