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Before exporting audio for use in Apple Music/iTunes it is important to consider which audio file format you want to use. WAV and AIFF files produce high quality lossless audio files but consume a lot of disk space. MP3 and AAC files are compressed so they occupy less disk space, but audio damage may result as a result of the compression especially when using low bitrates.

Submitting a podcast to the Apple Store is a different process than exporting an Audacity file to an Apple Music/iTunes library. See our Tutorial on Tutorial - Mixing a Narration With Background Music and our Wiki page on How to publish a Podcast for more help with creating and publishing a podcast.

What format should I export to?

Exporting audio for loading into Apple Music/iTunes

Follow the below steps to export audio for adding to Apple Music/iTunes.

Use the File > Export > Export Audio... command in Audacity (or File > Export > Export Multiple...).
Choose the export format in the Export dialog, to export the particular format you want your file(s) to be in (the best choices are WAV, AIFF, MP3 or AAC).
Copy the file(s) into iTunes from the location you exported it to:
- in iTunes use the File > Add File to Library... (or File > Add Folder to Library...) command
- in Apple Music use the File > Import... command.
- in either you can drag&drop an audio file into Apple Music/iTunes
Or you can set the file location on export from Audacity to auto-import into Apple Music/iTunes

You may also want to read this workflow tutorial Sample workflow for exporting to Apple Music/iTunes.

Set export location

You can choose any location for the export such as a 'Music' folder on your Desktop or even the Apple Music/iTunes 'Music' folder if you have one. However you must still import this file from the exported location into the Apple Music/iTunes Library.

There are two ways to import your exported audio files into Apple Music/iTunes:

Use the File > Add File to Library... or File > Add Folder to Library... command from within iTunes, or File > Import... in Apple Music, to add a single audio file or a folder of audio files.
Select Songs in Apple Music/iTunes and drag the file from the location you exported it to, into the Apple Music/iTunes window.

You can export files from Audacity directly to your Apple Music/iTunes library. Exporting a file to the following locations will cause Apple Music/iTunes to automatically place it in the Music section of your library. You can then play the audio on your computer with iTunes or add it to your iPod, iPhone or iPad.

Set the destination folder as:

Windows:C:Users<user name>MusiciTunesiTunes MediaAutomatically Add to iTunes
Mac:~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Automatically Add to iTunes or ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Automatically Add to Music.

By default Apple Music/iTunes is a 'virtual' Library containing no actual files but only links to them.

To avoid losing your files, do *not* delete the exported files from the location you exported them to, unless you have already gone to Edit > Preferences > Advanced in iTunes, or Preferences > Files in Apple Music. and enabled the 'Copy files to iTunes/Music Media folder when adding to library' option.

It is strongly recommended that you make this setting in Apple Music/iTunes.

Export to other Formats using Apple Music/iTunes

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Alternatively you can export to WAV or AIFF and convert to MP3, AAC or Apple Lossless in Apple Music/iTunes:

Click Edit > Preferences (or Music > Preferences on macOS Catalina or later)
Click on the 'General' tab in iTunes - or the 'Files' tab in Apple Music
Click the button
In the 'Import Using' dropdown, choose 'MP3 Encoder', 'AAC Encoder' or 'Apple Lossless Encoder' as required
Click OK and OK
Select the file to be converted, then use File > Convert and choose 'Create MP3 Version', 'Create AAC Version' or 'Create Apple Lossless Version' as appropriate.

After creating the MP3, AAC or Apple Lossless version you should delete the original WAV or AIFF files to save disk space, as Apple Music/iTunes does not do this for you automatically.

Some export formats are described below.

What format should I export to?

AAC is the default format set in Apple Music/iTunes and the format Apple uses for audio files sold from the Apple Music/iTunes Store, so is the most obvious choice if you solely use Apple products. MP3 should be considered if you think that in the future you may wish to switch to an alternative portable music player or phone. If you have plenty of storage space on your device or a relatively small music library you may wish to consider the larger lossless WAV or AIFF formats.

There are several advantages to using a compressed format on iPods and iPhones. The two main benefits are that you can fit many more songs into the device (for 256 kbps files you can fit about 10 times as many songs) and compressed files improve battery life, because disk reads are relatively heavy on battery power.

If you choose lossy formats (MP3 or AAC) the minimum bitrate setting you should use for music is 160 kbps, though 256 kbps is probably to be preferred - and in use on an iPod is unlikely to be distinguishable from WAV or AIFF (or Apple Lossless). For speech 128 kbps or even 64 kbps can be used as the bitrate if preferred.

Apple does not officially support Ogg Vorbis (a lossy, compressed format similar to MP3/compressed AAC) and has no support at all for FLAC (a lossless, compressed format smaller than WAV but larger than MP3/compressed AAC). If you really want to export to OGG for Apple Music/iTunes, see OGG usage in Apple Music/iTunes and QuickTime. iPods, iPads and iPhones cannot play OGG files.

WAV or AIFF (universal support, lossless, best for CD burning)

If you want a perfect lossless copy of your audio, or to burn it in Apple Music/iTunes to an audio CD for playing on any CD player, you should choose WAV or AIFF. It is strongly recommended you export a standard 'CD quality' 44100 Hz, 16-bit stereo WAV or AIFF to make sure Apple Music/iTunes understands the file. This means:

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