I have a bunch of M4P songs on my hard drive. My M4A converter won’t do the job. What is a good converter to convert M4P to MP3 ? Thanks
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This is not a matter of simply converting the files. M4P is Apple’s proprietary file format, essentially AAC with DRM. So, your first step would have to be to crack the DRM, thus leaving you with a simple M4A (AAC) file.
But I guess doing so is illegal. So … don’t. And let this be a reminder to not support DRM by buying DRM-crippled music. If they don’t trust you, they don’t deserve your money.
The software I posted does convert M4P. I tested it on a song I got as a free download from iTunes. I think the way it works, actually, is to play it and record it as MP3 (or whatever format you choose). There are several programs that do this, and I haven’t heard of any of them getting DMCA takedowns.
The Apple-approved option is to burn it to a CD then rip it. You will have to rip it in iTunes to avoid having to re-enter all the tags manually. You can use re-writable CDs so you don’t end up with a bunch of unneeded CDs, but CD-RWs are much slower. You only get about 10-15 songs on a CD, so its a very time-consuming and tedious process.
I agree about not buying DRM-crippled music, but there are more and more artists who only sell outside their country via iTunes.
@bdb wrote:
You can use re-writable CDs so you don’t end up with a bunch of unneeded CDs, but CD-RWs are much slower.
Ultraspeed (24x) or Ultraspeed+ (32x) CD-RWs aren’t much slower than CD-Rs. Considering the pretty much fixed time for writing the lead-in & lead-out and the fact that CD-Rs reach their maximum speed only on the outer third of the disc, the time difference for burning a whole disc is maybe 50%; plus the 20-30 seconds needed to quick-erase the RWs before each burn. While this is indeed slower than burning CD-R’s, if you have a UltraRW-capable burner, using RWs may be a good proposition to avoid waste both physical and financial.
FWIW, I have some Verbatim 24x RWs which I’ve been using for data exchange for 5 years or so, those never produced a single CRC error, and helped me save quite a few € over the years.
@txmike wrote:
I have a bunch of M4P songs on my hard drive. My M4A converter won’t do the job. What is a good converter to convert M4P to MP3 ? Thanks
I use Nero but this works well with protected iTunes files.
Message Edited by tmarkoski on 11-21-2008 09:38 AM
Note that is not a free program.
Well, just to explain some things: M4P is a DRM protected AAC file format. This means, the seller (Apple iTunes) wants to control where and how you play those files to protect them from being shared with other people. As far as I know there is no way to convert those files to DRM protected WMA files, that the fuze might play, so the only way to make them play is just by removing the protection, which is obviously against the will of Apple.
iTunes however must be able to play those files, which enables software to capture the sound from the soundcard. It also offers the possibility to create Audio CDs without any copy protection, so that one could rip the CD to unprotected files, or even create a software that pretends to burn an audio cd, but rips them directly to MP3 files. In my opinion the best way to accomplish removing DRM from the files is without decompressing, because every recompression involves additional data loss. The Fuze can’t play AACs, which is the compression that M4P and M4A use, but some other players can, and rockbox also can (which will enable to play those files on the Fuze, once rockbox gets fully ported to the Fuze; currently the development is at an amazing speed, so that the port could be finished in a few months).
So you could convert M4P just by removing the DRM, but without decompressing them, so you have small and handy files without any additional sound quality loss. This can be done with the freeware myFairTunes, which only supports specific older versions of iTunes. Look at the patchfile.xml that comes with myFairTunes, to see which versions are supported. This software creates M4A files, that can be converted with any software, that supports the AAC codec.
Message Edited by calv on 11-22-2008 12:03 AM
tmarkoski wrote: I use Nero but this works well with protected iTunes files.
I forgot about Nero.Had it on my last computer and it seemed to do everything. I’ll try and find a place to"acquire" it again. The one in the link only converts the first 3 min.s and is only good for two weeks. still may give it a try on some short songs.Thanks
Message Edited by TXMike on 11-26-2008 01:14 PM
M4P music is encrypted by Apple, it is DRM protected AAC file. To convert iTunes M4P to MP3, you need the audio converter that has the ability to remove DRM from iTunes M4P, then convert to MP3.
I have two suggestions:
1. Convert iTunes M4P to MP3 within iTunes
- Burn the the iTunes M4P songs onto a CD.
- When it has finished burning, enter that CD into your computer again.
- Click on “Audio CD” under “source” on the left side of your screen in iTunes.
- Then right click on the track you want to convert to an MP3.
- Select “convert to MP3”
- Once it has finished converting, copy that file to somewhere else on your computer.
- Copy it again from where you just pasted it, and paste it into your MP3 player or other music players as you like.
2. Convert iTunes M4P to MP3 with DRM Audio Converter
Add the iTunes songs to the DRM audio converter, then choose MP3 as the output, press Convert to start the M4P to MP3 conversion and it is done. It is much faster and easier.
Source: 2 Ways to Convert Apple Music and iTunes DRM M4P Songs to MP3
I used easy m4p converter software, It’s very handy. you can try it.
Maybe you can try TuneFab Apple Music Converter to convert Apple Music to MP3.
TuneClone is a nice tool and easy to use. It converts m4p to mp3 with losing the quality.
Not sure whether your M4P songs are from iTunes or not. If they are iTunes songs, you may need a special DRM removal tool. Anyway, you are suggested to try TunesKit DRM Audio Converter as it supports both DRM-ed and no-DRM M4P songs. It can losslessly convert your M4P files to MP3 on both Mac and Windows. Good luck.
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A file with the M4P file extension is an iTunes Audio file or sometimes called an iTunes Music Store Audio file. It’s really just an AAC file that’s copy protected using a proprietary DRM technology created by Apple.
M4P files are seen when downloading music from the iTunes Store. It can be opened with Apple’s iTunes. However, the computer you’re using iTunes on must be authorized in order to play the M4P file, which is done by logging into iTunes under the same account that was used to download the audio file.
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