MPEG 3 Audio files

[Jux]

DD got an MP3 player for Xmas, but it turns out it isn't, it's actually an MPEG 3 player and won't play her MP3 stuff. Very frustrating.

How can I convert MP3 to MPEG 3? I've tons of conversion software on my m/c but none of it seems to do that!

Thanks.

P-p-p-please!!!!!!!!!

OK, me and dh are even stupider than we realised. MPEG 3layer audio is an MP3 file. However, the sellers of this MP3 player (e-bay, prolific sellers with very pos feedback) have said that the iTunes files aren't MP3 and this morning sent me two songs to show me what format the songs should be for the player. They are MPEG 3 layer audio (my iTunes files seem to be MP3 whatever the sellers say).

However, the bloody thing will still only play the songs that were on it to start with, and not the songs I have put on for dd. I don't understand. I suspect there is something about these formats which I am missing. That would be down to my duh-brain. Can anyone explain this in simple language?

It may have changed recently, but generally iTunes files were AAC format and designed to stop you playing them on your own MP3 player.

For any that are AAC some people have said that you can do this, but I don't have itunes so can't test it.

In iTunes, go to Edit->Preferences, click General, and then Import Settings. Set "Import Using" to "MP3 Encoder". Then go back to the iTunes library, select the songs to convert, and go to Advanced->Create MP3 Version.

This would (if it works at all) make a new copy of the song as MP3

If they already are MP3 I'm not sure. I suppose MP3 can also be protected to stop you playing them in something else, but I steer clear of all DRM so I don't know.

A lot of people at this point give up, download utorrent and use that to get free copies of all the music they paid for from piratebay etc.

Thanks onager. I admit to having used p2p before for music. That's the stuff that works on her mp3 player though! So does some stuff from iTunes/store and some stuff we've got from our own CDs. There seems to be no logic to what the player recognises and what it doesn't. All the files on it are MP3 (there were 3 which were MP4, so I converted them and they're OK). It's annoying and doesn't make sense.

I'm going to try to run everything through my MP3 converter and see if that does anything. Otherwise I'm sending it back and asking for a refund.