NoteBurner WAV to MP3 Converter can work with many media players, such as famous iTunes, WMP, RealPlayer, Winamp, Sonicstage, Jetaudio, etc. Here, let's see how to run NoteBurner WAV to MP3 Converter and iTunes together to convert wav to mp3:

Step 1: Download NoteBurner WAV to MP3 Converter from http://www.noteburner.com/, and then install and run it.

Note: After you running NoteBurner WAV to MP3 Converter, you may see the symbol of NoteBurner, which is a combination of green disc and note, at the right bottom of your computer screen.

Step 2: Choose mp3 as the output format in NoteBurner WAV to MP3 Converter.

1. Click Setting button on top of NoteBurner WAV to MP3 Converter's GUI

2. Browse a folder for storing the converted mp3 songs

3. Choose MP3 as the output format

4. Check the ID3Tag options

5. Click the OK button to save the changes

Step 3: Set NoteBurner WAV to MP3 Converter as the default CD burner for iTunes

1. Run iTunes (Notes: In order to convert wav file to mp3, you have to run NoteBurner WAV to MP3 Converter and iTunes simultaneously)

2. Click menu Edit and choose Preferences

3. Follow tabs Advanced>Burning, and set NoteBurn Virtual_CD-RW as the CD burner

4. Click to choose your preferred burning speed (Note: select a slower burning speed here may help you to avoid skips, shutters, gaps in mp3 audiobooks converted by NoteBurner WAV to MP3 Converter)

5. Choose Audio CD as the Disc Format

6. Check the Include CD Text check box

Step 4: Create playlist to contain songs for converting to MP3

You can burn the existing iTunes playlist, or create a new playlist, and then add selected wav files to the playlist for converting to MP3.

1. Choose the menu File > New Playlist

2. Select wav files or audiobooks in your iTunes library

3. Right-click on the selected wav files, and choose “Add to Playlist > untitled playlist 3 (The playlist you create)”

4. Click the playlist (untitled playlist 3) you would like to burn under the PLAYLISTS on the left panel, and you will see all the selected wav files.

Tips:
It's suggested that one playlist shall not contain more than 700 MB wav files, that's approximately 60-minute length music. NoteBurner WAV to MP3 Converter utilizes virtual CD burning mechanism to converting audio files. And as you may know, a CD-R disc can only hold 700 MB files in maximum.

Step 5: Burn the iTunes playlist

Click on the Burn Disc button to start burning the playlist.

After iTunes finishes burning, NoteBurner WAV to MP3 Converter will start encoding the MP3 files on the bottom right window.

Tips: Audiobooks usually are large audio file with the playtime up to 2-3 hours. In this case, NoteBurner WAV to MP3 Converter will convert the audiobook into several separated MP3 files.

Step 6: Get the output MP3 files

The converted playlist and songs will show up on the main window of NoteBurner WAV to MP3 Converter.

1. You can double-click any song to preview the music, or click the Play button to play selected song

2. Click the Folder button to open the output folder, where you will find the converted MP3 files

Now, you can transfer the output mp3 songs to any computers or mobile music devices such as iPod, PSP, Zune, iPhone, cell phone, MP3 player, MP4 player etc., and enjoy them whenever and wherever you like!

NoteBurner WAV to MP3 Converter is well known for its magic fast converting speed and its capability of converting DRM protected audio and unprotected wma songs to mp3, wma and wav, especially convert M4P to MP3. NoteBurner WAV to MP3 Converter applies virtual CD burning technology to simulate the burning and ripping process. By doing so it converts DRM protected audio files, such as m4p, m4a, m4b, wma and audio book, and unprotected audio, such as wma, mp3, wav, rax, mp4, ra, snd, aac, ogg, aa and aif, etc. to mp3, wav and wma. Download to have a try here!