How to convert iTunes music to MP3: convert protected itunes to mp3
iTunes is an audio player for playing and organizing digital music files, and purchasing digital music files in the FairPlay digital rights management format. It supports playing various formats like M4P, MP3, AAC, M4B, M4A, AIFF, WAV etc. Now it's available for Mac OS X, Windows Vista and XP. And its version 8 released in September adds genius playlists feature, which automatically generate a playlist of 25, 50, 75 or 100 songs from user's library that are similar to the selected song.
The iTunes Store (as iTunes Music Store) is the component of iTunes through which users can purchase digital music files within iTunes. With music from all five major music companies and more than 600 independent labels, the iTunes Music Store catalog now offers more than 1,000,000 audio files. Features include a free download with no hidden charges for extra features, MP3 and pristine-quality AAC-encoding from audio CDs, smart playlists, more than 250 free Internet-radio stations, and the ability to burn custom playlists to CDs and MP3 CDs, to burn content to DVDs to back up an entire music collection, and to share music via Rendezvous over any network, cross-platform. The iTunes Store has already sold 5 billion songs, according to a report released in June, 2008. This amount keeps increasing, of course.
iTunes Store file formats: convert protected itunes to mp3
M4P
Protected .AAC audio format; incorporates Apple Computer's "Fairplay" DRM copy protection, which limits the number of computers the file can be played on.
M4B
Audiobook file based on the MPEG-4 container format; typically compressed with .AAC encoding; nearly identical to a .M4A file, but denoted as an audiobook and can be "bookmarked" by supporting audio players.
M4V
MPEG-4 video format that include copyright protection; includes music videos, TV episodes, and full-length movies.
iTunes Music Converter for PC: convert protected itunes to mp3
iTunes Music Converter for Mac
The iTunes Store has already sold 5 billion songs, according to a report released in June, 2008. This amount keeps increasing, of course. However, when these iTunes music owners want to transfer their songs to enjoy themselves on other portable devices, like Zune, PSP, Zen, BlackBerry, Palm or Nokia phones, they will find that these songs protected by DRM do not allow even legal owners to do so. They need to convert iTunes M4P, M4A, M4B music files to plain MP3. What to do now? If you are one of them, follow this simple tutorial. It will help, no matter whether you are using a PC or a Mac.
NoteBurner: Convert iTunes to MP3 for PC Users: convert protected itunes to mp3
NoteBurner is an iTunes music converter which will install a virtual CD burner in your PC. Though it needs to work with a media player which could burn CD, its virtual technology can let you convert iTunes songs very easily and at high speed. No need to waste physical disc or your valuable time. That's why it's a top 3 music converters selected by TopTenReviews -- No.1 if for DRM music converters. The PC version of NoteBurner can convert iTunes music to MP3, WMA or WAV format, such as M4P to MP3, M4P to WMA, M4P to WMV, M4B to MP3, M4B to WMA, M4A to MP3, M4A to WAV, etc.
1. Download and install NoteBurner (PC version). This software will install a virtual CD-RW in your PC. With this virtual drive, you are able to convert iTunes M4P, M4A, M4B music files to MP3 very easily and at high speed.
2. Open Noteburner, go to Settings and set MP3 as output format. If you like, you can enable ID3 tag info, use different bitrate, etc:
Note: This NoteBurner (PC version) can convert iTunes music to WAV and WMA formats as well.
3. In iTunes, go to menu File > New Playlist, create a new play list to add the iTunes music you want to convert:
4. Turn to this new play list, click Burn Disc button on the bottom-right of iTunes, and set NoteBurner as CD burner in Burn Settings window:
5. NoteBurner will burn these iTunes files virtually, and after a while, you are able to check converted MP3s in NoteBurner. You can also right click on the music, and select Open File Location to find it in your hard drive:
NoteBurner: Convert iTunes to MP3 for Mac Users, convert protected itunes to mp3
The interface of the Mac version of NoteBurner is different from PC version's. However, it has a very lite but efficent window design which can let Mac users easily know how to operate and find the converted files. It can convert iTunes music to MP3 or AAC format, such as M4P to MP3, M4P to AAC, M4B to MP3, M4B to AAC, M4A to MP3, M4A to AAC, etc.
1. Download and install NoteBurner (Mac version). This software will install a virtual CD-RW in your Mac. With this virtual drive, you are able to convert iTunes M4P, M4A, M4B music files to MP3 very easily and at high speed.
2. Open Noteburner, go to Preferences and set MP3 as output format. If you like, you can drag the indicator to change the bitrate:
Note: This NoteBurner (Mac version) can convert iTunes music to AAC format as well.
3. In iTunes, go to menu File > New Playlist, create a new play list to add the iTunes music you want to convert:
4. Turn to this new play list, click Burn button on the bottom-right of iTunes, and set NoteBurner as CD burner in Burn Settings window:
5. NoteBurner will burn these iTunes files virtually, and after a while, you are able to check converted MP3s in NoteBurner. You can also right click on the music, and select Show In Finder to find it in your hard drive:
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