ITunes 8 wont import WAV. and AIFF. files from DESKTOP to 320kbps ACC

Come to think of it, I am facing the same problem. There is this fantastic app for the iPhone called Note2Self. I paid $2.99 for it and it saves all files in .aiff. Pathetic how I cannot import it to my phone as mp3 through iTunes. Steve Jobs is my tech guru. But somehow Apple is not doing things the way they used to sometime back.

I have the same problem.. when i drag *.wav files into itunes, or choose to add files to library, it just ignores it - doing nothing..
the import options in preference also only shows "import settings for cd".. and not for files..
**** it !

got the same problem... got wavs [on my desktop] and want to improt them into itunes as apple lossless. can't seem to see a way to do it [apart from importing as wav files and then converting and then deleting the old wavs]. what a drag...

I have the same problem, sort of. I have several ACC files off my iTunes that I want to load onto a card and play in my car. I need to convert these files to MP3's and can't do it. The importsetting preferences change only works for CD's. Any ideas? Please!

Yeah, same here - I'd like to Bump this topic up to solve this issue.

In the past, converting .wav files to a variety of different kbps .mp3 files was great and easy in iTunes!
Or converting .mp3 to .wav

Why did they take it away?

Is there another optiion?

Thanks.

I can no longer choose my kbps of the desired format I want when importing/converting from the DESKTOP.

No longer? This was never an option.

Where did you select this previously?
If the file is one iTunes already can use (WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC or Apple Lossless), it will simply add it to iTunes. It never asked what you wanted to convert it to.

However, it can be done without having to add and and then convert.
Go to iTunes prefs -> General and click th eImport setting button.
Set the format /bitrate you want the imported files to be.
Now hold the Option key and go to menu Advanced -> Convert selection to...
This will call up a windows to select folder/file. Select what you want, then OK.
This will import and convert the files the format you have set in iTunes prefs - Importing.

Thanks Chris CA,

As per usual, the problem is right under our noses! I thought they'd taken that feature away in iTunes 8 (but it's just been moved)!

You're a great help - Thanks once again...

K.

Well I think there is a better way. I had a bunch of wav files and I wanted to convert them into Apple lossless. With wav files sometimes they dont have album info so I used TOAST to create an audio cd but instead of burning it I saved it as a disc image. I then used Toast to mount the image and I set itunes to automatically import and I changed the settings to lossless. The benefit of doing it this way is that it will get all the CD info plus album art. Only downside is you need to do it one cd at a time but its worth it.

1)Load .wavs to Toast "make an audio Cd"
2)Save as Disc Image
3)Toast>Utilies>Mount Image and then select the image just created
4)Let Itunes import.