By Will Spencer via http://www.articlesnatch.com
You might have experienced being unable to play songs you bought from the iTunes Store without using your iPods. At times that can be really frustrating seeing that you bought the music and you feel like you have the right to listen to it using other players. The solution is to convert iTunes to MP3 format, which may not be as easy at it looks.
The trouble with the steps to convert iTunes to MP3 is due to the fact that the music you downloaded from the iTunes Store will be encrypted. This simply means that the music is protected from song duplication and piracy. These songs are classified as DRM protected, which simply means they could only be played a specific computer or type of media player.
It is also interesting to note that Apple continues to have a tight control over the encryption used in iTunes. It is safeguarded to the point that no other online music store can sell music with the same encryption. To the consumer, this simply means you can only get their music from them and play it on their player or software. However, if you are able to convert iTunes to MP3, which is a format that is open to all, then you can listen to the music you bought from them on a player of your own choosing.
The first method to convert iTunes to MP3 is safe and risk free, which is burning your music to a disk, while the second one, which entails using a music file conversion program, might become a bit messy.
If you opt to use a file converting program, you run the risk of corrupting your files. This may be the fastest and the easiest way to convert iTunes to MP3 but you run the risk of corrupting files. Your other option is to burn your songs to a disk then rip the songs from the disk to into MP3. You may use a burning software if that you like or that you're familiar with.
Popular CD burning software like Roxio or Nero can help you to convert iTunes to MP3. Grab a blank CD and put it in then burn the songs from iTunes into a regular CD format. Once all the songs have been burned into a CD, you now have your songs in open format. The next step to convert iTunes to MP3 using this method is to rip the music from off the CD into MP3.
You might think that this procedure is either laborious or time consuming since it will take some time to burn your songs into a CD. Another thing you should think about is the fact that you can fit 18 songs at the most to one CD. This will mean that if you want to convert more songs, you will have to do the same steps over and over.
If ever you don't want to use a third-party burning software then you can just use the CD burning feature in iTunes. This is an alternative method to convert iTunes to MP3 without using another software. Before you start burning your music, you should set iTunes to burn using your CD burner. Select your CD burner on the preferences menu.
Those who don't have a CD burner on their computer will have to use a virtual burner software like TuneClone or NoteBurner. All you have to do to convert iTunes to MP3 is to create a new playlist in iTunes, which includes all the songs you want to convert. After making your playlist then burn your music to a disk in iTunes. If you used a virtual burner, obviously you don't have to rip the music since it's already on your hard drive.
These are your options if you want to convert your iTunes music into open music formats like MP3. Some of your options are a bit risky while other options are safe but sometimes are time consuming.
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
TuneClone M4P Converter - remove DRM from iTunes M4P music to MP3 WAV WMA
TuneClone M4P Converter(http://www.tuneclone.com/index.php) is a very easy to use program that converts iTunes M4P music files to plain MP3, WAV and unprotected WMA. Via a user-friendly interface, it is very easy to install and very easy to use.
TuneClone M4P Converter doesn't bypass the DRM. It simulates the burning, ripping and encoding process by installing a virtual CD burner. All you need to do is burn your playlist in your media player software to TuneClone M4P Converter's virtual CD drive, and TuneClone M4P Converter will convert music files in the playlist to MP3, WAV or DRM-free WMA files automatically.
Key features of TuneClone M4P Converter: http://www.tuneclone.com/index.php
1. Within a few clicks, TuneClone M4P Converter lets you remove DRM protection from purchased music by applying the virtual CD burning technology. You can play the converted DRM-free music with media players or any MP3 players including Zune, PSP, BlackBerry, Creative Zen, iriver, SanDisk Sansa, Walkman, Cell Phone (Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia N-series, Samsung Anycall, LG, etc.), Pocket PC, PDA, etc.
2. TuneClone M4P Converter supports almost all music formats your media player software can play and burn, whether they are DRM protected or not, including WMA, M4P, AAC, M4B and M4A. And it can output audio formats such as MP3, WAV and unprotected WMA.
3. TuneClone M4P Converter can easily and quickly convert DRM protected music and various audio files to MP3, WAV and unprotected WMA at very high speed with very nice CD quality.
4. With TuneClone M4P Converter, the converted songs will have no DRM restriction any more.
5. TuneClone M4P Converter is very easy to install and and very easy to use with a very handy and clear user interface.
6. TuneClone M4P Converter can preserve ID3 tags for artist, album, title names, artworks, etc.
7. TuneClone M4P Converter is specially designed for batch converting large song collections. Compared with using real CD-R or CD-RW disc, TuneClone's virtual CD burning uses the maximum writing speed so that your music files can be converted at a very high speed.
TuneClone M4P Converter is available at:http://www.tuneclone.com/tuneclone_setup.exe
TuneClone M4P Converter doesn't bypass the DRM. It simulates the burning, ripping and encoding process by installing a virtual CD burner. All you need to do is burn your playlist in your media player software to TuneClone M4P Converter's virtual CD drive, and TuneClone M4P Converter will convert music files in the playlist to MP3, WAV or DRM-free WMA files automatically.
Key features of TuneClone M4P Converter: http://www.tuneclone.com/index.php
1. Within a few clicks, TuneClone M4P Converter lets you remove DRM protection from purchased music by applying the virtual CD burning technology. You can play the converted DRM-free music with media players or any MP3 players including Zune, PSP, BlackBerry, Creative Zen, iriver, SanDisk Sansa, Walkman, Cell Phone (Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia N-series, Samsung Anycall, LG, etc.), Pocket PC, PDA, etc.
2. TuneClone M4P Converter supports almost all music formats your media player software can play and burn, whether they are DRM protected or not, including WMA, M4P, AAC, M4B and M4A. And it can output audio formats such as MP3, WAV and unprotected WMA.
3. TuneClone M4P Converter can easily and quickly convert DRM protected music and various audio files to MP3, WAV and unprotected WMA at very high speed with very nice CD quality.
4. With TuneClone M4P Converter, the converted songs will have no DRM restriction any more.
5. TuneClone M4P Converter is very easy to install and and very easy to use with a very handy and clear user interface.
6. TuneClone M4P Converter can preserve ID3 tags for artist, album, title names, artworks, etc.
7. TuneClone M4P Converter is specially designed for batch converting large song collections. Compared with using real CD-R or CD-RW disc, TuneClone's virtual CD burning uses the maximum writing speed so that your music files can be converted at a very high speed.
TuneClone M4P Converter is available at:http://www.tuneclone.com/tuneclone_setup.exe
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
How to convert iTunes M4P to MP3 with TuneClone
TuneClone Audio Converter is the software you are looking for if you have a big collection of iTunes M4P music files to be converted to MP3. It automatically generates a virtual CD drive 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 iTunes M4P music to MP3. It is very fast and all the music information about artist, album and title will be preserved perfectly.
Note: If you are using iTunes 8.0 or above, please skip to http://itunestomp3.blogspot.com/2008/09/updated-how-to-convert-itunes-protected.html
1. Download TuneClone from http://www.tuneclone.com and install it.
TuneClone Audio Converter 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 music metadata, 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. You can open the manager screen to show all the converted music files.
The most important step is to choose the cd burner. Then TuneClone will convert the music files automatically. It is exceedingly easy when you want to batch convert lots of M4P files.
Note: If you are using iTunes 8.0 or above, please skip to http://itunestomp3.blogspot.com/2008/09/updated-how-to-convert-itunes-protected.html
1. Download TuneClone from http://www.tuneclone.com and install it.
TuneClone Audio Converter 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 music metadata, 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. You can open the manager screen to show all the converted music files.
The most important step is to choose the cd burner. Then TuneClone will convert the music files automatically. It is exceedingly easy when you want to batch convert lots of M4P files.
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