Convert a vocal to a different file format with the Apple Music app or iTunes for Windows

Learn how to catechumen a song to a different file format and go on a copy of the original.

Y'all can use the Apple Music app on Mac or iTunes for Windows to convert song files between compressed and uncompressed formats. For example, you might want to import some uncompressed files into your music library as compressed files to salvage deejay infinite. Examples of compressed formats are MP3 and Apple Lossless Encoder. Examples of uncompressed formats are AIFF or WAV.

You shouldn't find reduced sound quality when you:

  • Convert between uncompressed formats
  • Go from a compressed to an uncompressed format

You might discover reduced sound quality when you lot:

  • Convert between compressed formats
  • Become from an uncompressed to a compressed format

Learn more nearly audio compression.

For all-time results, if you want your music in a different format, import again from the original source using the new encoding format.

Y'all can convert the format of songs that are in your music library, in a binder, or on a disk.

Convert songs in your music library

Follow the steps below for your device.

On your Mac

  1. Open the Apple Music app.
  2. In the menu bar, choose Music > Preferences.
  3. Click the Files tab, then click Import Settings.
  4. Click the menu adjacent to Import Using, then cull the encoding format that you lot want to convert the vocal to.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Select the songs in your library that yous desire to convert.
  7. Choose File > Convert, then Create [format] Version.

New song files appear in your library next to the original files.

On your PC

  1. Open iTunes for Windows.
  2. In the carte bar, cull Edit > Preferences.
  3. Click the General tab, then click Import Settings.
  4. Click the carte side by side to Import Using, then choose the encoding format that you want to convert the song to.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Select the songs in your library that you want to convert.
  7. Choose File > Catechumen, then Create [format] Version.

New song files appear in your library next to the original files.

Convert songs from files in a folder or on a deejay

You can import songs into the Apple Music app or iTunes for Windows and convert them at the aforementioned fourth dimension. This creates a converted copy of the file in your music library, based on your preferences in the Apple Music app or iTunes for Windows.

To convert all of the songs in a binder or on a disk, follow the steps beneath for your device.

Older purchased songs are encoded in a Protected AAC format that prevents them from being converted.

On your Mac

  1. Open the Apple tree Music app.
  2. In the menu bar, choose Music > Preferences.
  3. Click the Files tab, so click Import Settings.
  4. Click the bill of fare next to Import Using, then choose the encoding format that y'all desire to catechumen the songs to.
  5. Click OK.
  6. On your keyboard, concord downward the Option central and choose File > Catechumen > Convert to [import preference].
  7. Select the folder or disk that contains songs that you want to import and convert.

The songs in their original format and the converted songs announced in your library.

On your PC

  1. Open iTunes for Windows.
  2. In the menu bar, cull Edit > Preferences.
  3. Click the General tab, then click Import Settings.
  4. Click the carte adjacent to Import Using, then choose the encoding format that you desire to convert the songs to.
  5. Click OK.
  6. On your keyboard, hold down the Shift key and choose File > Convert > Convert to [import preference].
  7. Select the folder or deejay that contains songs that you lot want to import and convert.

The songs in their original format and the converted songs appear in your library.

Learn more than

When you catechumen a file with the Apple Music app or iTunes for Windows, the original file remains unchanged in the same location. The Apple tree Music app and iTunes for Windows creates the converted file from a copy of the original.

Well-nigh pinch

When you convert a song to sure compressed formats, some information might be lost. These compressed formats give you a much smaller file size, which lets you store more songs. Only, the sound quality might not be every bit good as the original, uncompressed format.

You might non hear a departure between a compressed and uncompressed song. This tin depend on the song, your speakers or headphones, or your music device.

If y'all shrink a vocal and it loses information, y'all tin can't uncompress it to remember the information. If you convert a vocal from a compressed to an uncompressed format, its quality doesn't improve. The file only takes up more than disk space. An example is when y'all convert a song in MP3 format (a compressed format) to AIFF (an uncompressed format). The song takes up much more space on your hd, simply sounds the same as the compressed file. To take advantage of uncompressed formats, yous should import songs in these formats.

About copyright

You can utilize the Apple Music app and iTunes for Windows to reproduce materials. It is licensed to yous only for reproduction of:

  • Non-copyrighted materials
  • Materials for which yous ain the copyright
  • Materials you are authorized or legally permitted to reproduce

If you are uncertain most your right to copy whatever material, you lot should contact your legal advisor. For more information, come across the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.

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