How to strip DRM off iTunes M4P music to MP3 WMA

The music files you purchased from online music stores like iTunes, Yahoo! Music or Wal-Mart are under DRM protection. You cannot play them on your own mobile devices other than iPod and iPhone. You cannot convert the DRM protected music files to MP3 or WMA directly with iTunes media player, either. However you can burn the protected music files to CD-R or CD-RW disc to make an audio CD and then use some CD ripper software to convert the audio CD track back to MP3, WAV, WMA, etc. And iTunes allows you to burn the protected music files to CD-R or CD-RW disc to make a standard audio CD. If you have only a few music files, you can use the method below:

1. Insert a CD-R or CD-RW disc into your CD-ROM drive. You'd better use CD-RW disc as it can be used for more than once.
2. Burn your playlist to make an audio CD. You cannot select the MP3 CD option since it requires the protected music files be converted to unprotected MP3 files.
3. After the audio CD is successfully burned, insert the disc into your CD-ROM drive again. Then you can use iTunes to import the music tracks on the burned disc to MP3 files.
4. Copy the MP3 files to media players such as cell phone, Zune, BlackBerry, PSP, Creative Zen, etc. and enjoy them.

These four steps seem very simple, however, it is a time consuming process if you have a library of music files ready to be converted. Moreover, the information of the music files like title, artist and album will be lost after burning and ripping back to MP3 files.

TuneClone is the software you are looking for if you have a big collection of iTunes music files to be converted. It automatically generates a virtual CD burner and simulates the burning and ripping process. All you need to do is install TuneClone and then burn your playlist to TuneClone virtual CD burner. And TuneClone will directly convert the music files to MP3 for you. It is very fast and all the artist, album and title information will be preserved perfectly.

1. Download TuneClone from http://www.tuneclone.com and install it.

It is fully compatible with Windows XP and Vista. A virtual CD Burner will be installed. This virtual CD-RW will be used to convert music files.

2. Set the default CD Burner to TuneClon CD-RW at iTunes.

Click menu Edit, select menu item Preferences..., and then select Advanced Tab. In order to keep the artist and title information of the music, the Include CD Text option should be checked.



3. Create a playlist, and then add the files you want to convert into the playlist.

4. Click Burn Disc button at the bottom right of the main screen of iTunes.



While the burning gets started, TuneClone will automatically convert the music file to MP3, WMA or WAV. You can open the manager screen to show all the converted music files.



The most important step is to choose the cd burner. Then the software can convert the music files automatically. It is exceedingly easy when you want to batch convert lots of files.

You may also try TuneCab Ultra - professional and versatile conversion tool which can convert between all popular audio and video formats. It supports converting AVI, WMV, MPEG, MP4, ASF, VOB, 3GP, iPhone, MOV, FLV to all other popular video formats including AVI, MP4, WMV, DVD, 3GP, iPod, iPhone, Zune, Xbox, PMP, PSP, Apple TV, Pocket PC, FLV, SWF, MOV.
TuneCab Ultra is powerful and easy to use conversion software.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

* Vista x32, Vista x64, Windows XP x32, Windows XP x64 or Windows 2003
* 256 Megabyte RAM
* Microsoft's MediaPlayer 9 or higher installed

http://www.tunecab.com/includes/download.php

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I still prefer TuneClone. It is very professional, powerful yet easy to use. It can help to remove the DRM protection mechanism and convert both protected and unprotected music files with rather high quality and very fast speed by automatically generating a virtual CD burner.

Apart from burning itunes music files(m4p, m4a) to mp3 wma wav, TuneClone is also a pretty good tool to convert music playlist on windows media player to mp3 files. Below are the detailed steps to burn WMA playlist to TuneClone's virtual CD drive with Windows Media Player:
How to convert WMA to MP3 with TuneClone

I just found an interesting tutorial about how to convert DRM-laden iTunes M4P M4A M4B music to MP3 for sharing with your facebook friends.

Has anyone ever tried it?

I've downloaded several mp3 audiobooks. I am wondering how to import them into my itunes audiobook category. Any instruction is greatly appreciated!

very nice info.
Thanks for sharing.

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I am using TunePat M4P Converterto convert iTunes DRM (m4p) music. The converting speed is super fast. The output converted file quality is excellent! More surprisingly, it can batch convert my iTunes library (more than one thousand m4p songs) to mp3 at a time!

Supported audio/music formats for TunePat M4P Converter:

iTunes M4P: Convert M4P to MP3, M4P to WAV, M4P to WMA Converter
M4A: M4A to MP3, M4A to WAV, M4A to WMA
AAC: AAC to MP3, AAC to WAV, AAC to WMA Conversion
Mp3: MP3 to WMA, MP3 to WAV, MP3 to WAM
WMA: WMA to MP3, WMA to WAV
WAV, WAVE: WAV to MP3, WAV to WMA
OGG: OGG to MP3, OOG to WAV, OGG to WMA
ASF: ASF to MP3, ASF to WAV, ASF to WMA

Try also TuneCab Online Video Catcher Ultimate. It can download streaming video from YouTube and sites like YouTube and then convert it to any formats.

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