Of course they are all "protected" so that is probably an issue.

Burn protected AAC (Mpeg4) files to a disk then import from the same disk back into your library. Then convert said newly imported files to mp3. Doing that will 'undo' the AAC protection. Wham-O! Mp3's for the SD card.

It wastes a CD in the process but you can buy those in bulk fairly cheap.

Good luck.

Kind of stupid for apple to not let freely use content I purchase from them. Makes me want to go back to buying CDs screw apple.

copyright and convert to mp3

I tried the soundtaxi trial but got empty space at the beginning of each song....is that just a function of the trial version and goes away with the purchased version?

Then went back and changed settings to "Perfect quality" something ike 384 KPS transfer rate and eliminated the skips. Don't know if it will help you.

SoundTaxi was giving me a dead air pause at the beginning of each track. For a bit more money I went with NoteBurner, which installs a virtual CD driver to capture the burned tracks from itunes. Seems to give a more 'pure' conversion. Maybe it's just my computer, but it's working better for me.

with sound taxi