M4A to MP3 converter
Turn M4A voice memos and songs into MP3s, on your own device.
or drop them here, or paste them
Nothing is uploaded.
About M4A to MP3
iPhone Voice Memos, many podcasts and music bought from Apple come as M4A. Some older players, car stereos and websites only accept MP3.
This converter re-encodes the sound as MP3 at the quality you choose. Voice memos can be personal, so they're converted in your browser and never uploaded.
Choose 128 kbps for voice memos and spoken podcasts, 192 kbps for most music, or 320 kbps when you want the best MP3 quality. M4A files are already compressed, so a higher setting won't make the sound better than the original, but it keeps the difference as small as possible.
Songs bought from iTunes years ago may be copy-protected; those can't be converted by any browser tool. Ordinary M4A files, such as your own recordings and podcast episodes, work fine, and you can drop several at once and download them together as a ZIP.
Each MP3 keeps the length and the number of channels of the M4A, so a stereo song stays stereo. No connection is needed once this page has opened.
Questions and answers
Yes. Share the memo to Files, then pick it here. Voice memos are M4A files that convert well at 128 kbps.
No. Songs with copy protection (old iTunes purchases with DRM) can't be decoded by a browser.
At the same size, M4A (AAC) usually sounds a little better. MP3's advantage is that every device plays it.