Changing MP3 file names

My wife bought some tracks off iTunes to transfer to our son's MP3 player. Because the MP3 player is a cheap no-frills model, it cannot play the tracks in the iTunes format. So she burned them to CD, ripped the CD to MP3 and transferred them to the player.

In all of this, the file name got defaulted (Track01, Track 02, etc.) and the metadata (e.g. Album Title, Song Title) was not carried forward.

Can you suggest a quicker and painless (and free !) way of getting tracks off iTunes into MP3 format while retaining the metadata ?

She assures me that she nominated MP3 as the preferred file type for download in iTunes, but the file still came in as iTunes format (M4P ?)

M4P seems to be the DRM-protected audio file format used by Apple iTunes.

THis link should help you...

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AFAIK You can't convert DRM protected ACC files other than burning CD's. Quick enough to rename them using something like Mediamonkey. That said converting a 128 bitrate ACC file to MP3 degrades the sound quality quite abit. Not that 128 sounds v.good to begin with. Better off buying used CD's.

I agree with bytelive that M4P seems to be the DRM-protected audio file, you need a Protected Music Converter