# Converting ACC to MP3

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/converting-acc-to-mp3/175960>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [January 19, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/converting-acc-to-mp3/175960 "2006-01-19T05:13:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![MTsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MTsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MTsoul)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/converting-acc-to-mp3/175960/1 "2006-01-19T05:13:14Z")

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I got a bunch of songs in the .m4a format. I want to convert them to mp3 because

1. there are a lot of songs - i want to use MusicBrainz to tag them and MusicBrainz only supports MP3s
2. have my non-ipod mp3 player play it
3. keep a universal format, just in case… something happens?

So my question is, what exactly will happen when I convert a .m4a to .mp3? Most of the songs are at 128kps. I know there is always quality loss during conversion, but will I notice it? Is the difference significant? I converted one song but didn’t notice much (but then again I didn’t want to believe there was much difference, so that might have influenced it).