You may have purchased many songs from iTunes online store. It will be ok if you just play it on your computers with iTunes, or on your iPod. You may have also purchased some DRM protected wma audio files from Napster, Rhapsody, Yahoo Music or some other websites.

However, you may need to use these DRM protected audio files for some legal personal use such as inserting the music in a Power Point presentation, listening it on your mp3 or mp4 player like creative Zen, Sansa players, Anchros and PSP, or on your mobile phone like Nokia N-series and BlackBerry. Unfortunately you will find that you are not allowed.
All these iTunes M4P and M4B files and DRM wma audio files are restricted. Is there any way to remove this DRM protection and convert the iTunes songs and DRM wma to widely used mp3 files?
Of course, you can and there are some ways that can achieve the goal.

(1) In iTunes, these DRM protected songs can’t be burned to mp3 CD disc, however, you can burn them to audio CD, and then use an audio ripper to rip the tracks from the CD. It may be a waste of CD discs when you have plenty of songs which need to be converted, also it’s hard to keep these heavy discs.

(2) Use the program named Noteburner for Windows XP and Vista. If you are using MAC OS X, please try Tune4MAC , it’s the MAC version of Noteburner.
Noteburner has won the award of top DRM removing tool and the third place of audio converter review by Top Ten Reviews, please refer to Audio Converter Review by Top Ten Review. Noteburner will install a virtual CD burner on your computer, what you need to do is just to set it as default CD burner in iTunes. Open iTunes, operate by Edit --> Preference --> Advanced --> burning, and set Noteburn Virtual CD_RW as your CD burner. If you want to preserve the tags information, including artist, song title, album name, track number, artwork etc, you need to check the option “include CD text”. Not only m4p files can be converted, but also audio book in m4b format or AA format can be converted to mp3 in iTunes with Noteburner virtual CD burner. Noteburner can also remove the DRM protection of wma audio files. In this case, you need to use Noteburner with Windows media player, and set Noteburner as your default CD burner in Windows media player. After setting Noteburner’s virtual CD burner, just burn the playlist as what you do to burn a real audio CD.
Generally speaking, if a media player supports CD burning feature, and the audio formats can be played with it, you can use Noteburner to convert other unprotected audio files too.

So you can finish burning and ripping and get high quality mp3 files with a virtual CD burner in amazingly fast speed. The outstanding design of virtual CD burner is also imitated by some other DRM removing tool.



(3) Use the program named Notecable . This program can also convert DRM protected iTunes m4p and m4b audio files and wma audio files. It works as a virtual sound card recording audio streams in background. The advantage of Notecable is that it’s very easy to use. There are some DRM removing tools and it’s thought to be the easiest one, however, the features of Notecable are powerful enough and it won’t be inferior than other tools. Click “add” button to add the files you need to convert, click “settings” button to choose output format, bitrate, output folder, then click “convert” button to start conversion. If you want convert at a faster speed, you can click settings button and adjust the “convert acceleration” bar.

(4) Use the program named Tunebite. It records the sounds with a real audio device, however, you need to import lame.exe to convert the files to mp3 files.

(5) Some other DRM removing program. Some also use virtual cd burner and the others use recording.

A lot of people complain about the DRM found on music bought at the iTunes Music Store. This is quite natural, since iTunes is by far the biggest supplier of music files, and the only legal place to buy files that play on iPods. iTunes only allows you to upload the files to a few iPods, burn them to a few CDs, and play them on a few computers. And you can only upload files to YOUR iPods; If someone else's iPod is set to play music from their account, the only way to put music from YOUR account into their iPod is to re-set that iPod to your account (which requires erasing all the music in it). And if you want to get music DOWN from an iPod, then this is basically impossible. So you need converter which help you to solve such drm-problem.

One such program is Melodycan. All you have to do is open it, adjust the settings if you want, pick a back-up folder and start the conversion (maximum summary converting speed is 50x ). Nothing could be easier. If you have the latest version of this program and the right version of iTunes, though, you`ll haven`t any problems.

What about iTunes-purchased videos? I heared that the only way to break the DRM on videos you buy at the iTunes Music Store (such as movies, music videos, and TV shows) is to use Melodycan. Essentially, it "watches" the movies you bought (if your computer is slow, it will go slower than real time, to make sure it captures every frame and synchs the sound properly), and records them into a new file that is not DRM'ed. You can change the settings so as to choose the format and properties (resolution, framerate, bitrate, compression algorithm) of the new file. I tried free trial and like conversion speed and quality.

There are many M4P converters can convert iTunes music or the other DRM music to mp3,Such as:Noteburner, tunepat,tune4win,tune4mac etc. I prefer Noteburner, which uses a virtual burner, it converts so fast…It can also convert protected audio book and wma files.

prefer to use powerful Melodycan Ultra Video converter. This software converts avi (Windows Video), WMV (Windows Media Video) and m4v, mov, aac, ra, aa, mp4, snd, aif, m4p, rax, wav, ogg etc.



MelodyCan can also convert video files of any kinds to commonly used iPod MPEG4 files (MP4) and DivX files (AVI, DIVX) for playback at home video devices. With MelodyCan you are not bound to your PC anymore and can play your movies on almost any device you have. MelodyCan can convert protected Windows Media Video (WMV) files to regular MPEG4 files (mp4) for iPod devices or convert WMV to DivX format for home DVD/DivX players. MelodyCan also can convert protected iTunes video files (M4V) to MPEG4 or DivX.





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