Trying to convert m4a files to 128kbps mp3s, but now an entire album isn't recognized

[Jack Bryce]

I've been trying to convert a bunch of m4a's into 128kbps mp3s, but when I do it to Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts I-IV, the converter doesn't register any track names, album names or track lengths. They still convert, but the mp3 player I put them on can't see them. It does the same to The Slip too. Is there some sort of, uh, "something" encoded into the files to cause this?

[adzicents]

Most of the time when converting music to MP3, the ID3 tags aren't conserved.

[Cheesemonkey]

dbpoweramp converter

It conserves the tags.

But why 128? that's shit quality.

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384kbps is where it's at

[Jack Bryce]

Oops, I forgot about this thread. The reason I need to convert it to 128kbps is because it pretty much halves the file size, which is important because I'm trying to fit 800+ songs onto a 4GB mp3 player.

Also, I figured out how to fix this, I just changed the import settings in iTunes to 128kbps mp3 and clicked "Create mp3 version" for the songs I wanted. Hopefully this will help anyone else who runs into the same problem.