Converting Itunes M4P into Mp3

[Unregistered]

Hi,

is there anyone that is able to tell me how to convert itunes music M4P into a normal mp3 so i can put the music on to my player. I'm thankfull for any fair suggestions.

Sab

[Linuxrising]

This may help....

http://www.hymn-project.org/

All about Itunes and the conversion. In fact the software is only for Itunes.

[hammydude]

I'm kind of slow,
Could someone please explain how to burn the cd in itunes then convert the audio files to mp3? (in simple, easy steps)

Thanks for db power amp! Now i can put flac on my ipod! :yawn: :teufel8: :blush:

[LtData]

Thanks for db power amp! Now i can put flac on my ipod! :yawn: :teufel8: :blush:
Umm.. but the ipod won't play FLAC...

[hammydude]

Yes i know it wont play flac, flac is better than audio, i use it for my computer. How do you remove the copywrite protection from itunes with the CD?

[adaywayne]

Yes i know it wont play flac, flac is better than audio, i use it for my computer. How do you remove the copywrite protection from itunes with the CD?

You burn the iTunes to a music CD (CD audio format = max. 80 minutes for a 700MB disc) using the iTunes burning program. Then rip the CD back to your computer and convert to any format you wish. You can use a CD-RW disk if you wish.

The other way is to play the iTunes tracks and record them as they play. You can do this using DMC's Auxilliary Input feature.

[neilthecellist]

speaking of copy protection, why do people protect their music if you can eaisly bypass it?

[LtData]

speaking of copy protection, why do people protect their music if you can eaisly bypass it?
Easily? Not quite. Bypass it? You bet your sweet bippy. They know people can bypass the protection, but they do it so that they prevent some people from expending the effort needed copy their music.

[neilthecellist]

Easily? Not quite. Bypass it? You bet your sweet bippy. They know people can bypass the protection, but they do it so that they prevent some people from expending the effort needed copy their music.

With all due respect to the forum rules, LtData, isn't it true that "hackers always win"? Dennis, the computer technician at my school said that. So why even bother putting protection? Although some people won't put the effort in to un-copy-protect the music, the hackers will know how, and then they'll let those "some people" know how, and then eventually, EVERYONE will know how.

At least, this is my perspective on this issue. There may be other opinions on this... :)

[LtData]

With all due respect to the forum rules, LtData, isn't it true that "hackers always win"? Dennis, the computer technician at my school said that. So why even bother putting protection? Although some people won't put the effort in to un-copy-protect the music, the hackers will know how, and then they'll let those "some people" know how, and then eventually, EVERYONE will know how.

At least, this is my perspective on this issue. There may be other opinions on this... :)
Neil, you just asked the $16,000 question: Why use copy-protection if it will be broken. The short answer is that it will take time to break the protection and the copy-protection will discourage casual-copiers that don't wish to expend the effort/time to break the protection.

[ChristinaS]

Just like locking your house doors and shutting windows when you're not around, and maybe even using an alarm system. Real thieves will always find ways in, but the "amateur" ones will think twice if it doesn't come easy.

[Tomb]

Just like locking your house doors and shutting windows when you're not around, and maybe even using an alarm system. Real thieves will always find ways in, but the "amateur" ones will think twice if it doesn't come easy.

So, based on your example, are people who wish to convert music they have paid for to another format thieves?

Why people use DRM music services are beyond me. At the prices they charge (in the UK) it is cheaper to buy a CD than get the album from itunes! And lets face it a CD is far better than a mp3 or AAC file - isn't it?

[ChristinaS]

So, based on your example, are people who wish to convert music they have paid for to another format thieves?

I didn't say that, quite the contrary.

I was explaining why one would want to implement any sort of copyright protection, as an answer to a previous question.

Although, in fairness to the industry, it often does indeed veer that way.

And I agree, I personally never buy stuff from such services. If I want it badly enough, I'll buy the cd from a store. I will want it badly enough when I like enough songs on it to make it worth my while. No big loss otherwise.

[Tomb]

Just by using DRM services such as Napster and itunes treat their customers as criminals in my opinion. There are plenty of decent DRM free services out there such as Bleep, e-music and Audio Lunchbox.

[neilthecellist]

Just by using DRM services such as Napster and itunes treat their customers as criminals in my opinion. There are plenty of decent DRM free services out there such as Bleep, e-music and Audio Lunchbox.


How about soulseek? it claims to be legal..... :o

[iTunesIsEvil]

it claims to be legal.....

As did Napster, Kazaa, Morpheus etc etc etc...

"We dont support the sharing of music, or other copyright material. Thats not legal. Don't do it here! We're here for those of you that want to share what YOU have created as an independent artist, developer, etc etc etc..."

They've all said it, and look how well they're doing now.

Napster is making a come-back I guess, but I honestly believe that they'll go down sometime in the near-ish future. Not due to legal issues per-se, but more along the lines of I think their business model is going to come crashing down upon their heads.

[fxplorr]

Don't ask me why this worked this time and not previously because I can't explain it. I burned my playlist to a CD in iTunes and then used EZ CD Ripper (free version) and ripped them to mp3 from the CD. (free version only lets you do 5 songs at a time.)

When I tried to exit out of EZ CD Ripper I recieved two of those XP Error Report Messages. I just clicked "Don't Send." If you have XP, you know what I'm talking about. Then I received a runtime error "Runtime Error 216 at 00434BE1" I clicked OK on that. I then successfully opened the files in Winamp. It wasn't a clean process, but it worked. I had tried it a few weeks ago on my old XP machine (Dell 4550, XP Pro w/SP2 and all updates) and it didn't work. My new machine is a Dell 4700, XP Pro w/SP2 and all updates, but that shouldn't make a difference I would think.

I'm running iTunes 4.7.1.30 and EX CD Ripper 2.31 with the option that allows you to convert WMA files to other formats (should be a choice during installation.) Hope that works for someone else. Like I said, it didn't work for me previously, but today it did. Good Luck!! :thumbup:

[B-Rad001]

Ibought me a 15$ itunes gift card and all my music isnt mp3. but my psp only lets me put mp3 on the memory.. could someone please tell me step by step what to do?

Thanks, Brandon

[ChristinaS]

It depends what those files which are not mp3 really are. You'll need decoding codecs for them. If they are DRM protected files (very likely) you cannot convert them in fact, only record them using dMC Auxiliary Input, either directly to mp3 with the settings you want, or to wav and then convert the wav files to mp3.

But I also think maybe you can simply burn an audio cd with the files you have (using iTunes fubnctions) and then rip it easily using dMC Audio CD Input.

[B-Rad001]

It depends what those files which are not mp3 really are. You'll need decoding codecs for them. If they are DRM protected files (very likely) you cannot convert them in fact, only record them using dMC Auxiliary Input, either directly to mp3 with the settings you want, or to wav and then convert the wav files to mp3.

But I also think maybe you can simply burn an audio cd with the files you have (using iTunes fubnctions) and then rip it easily using dMC Audio CD Input.


when i do that it does not see it..or find it..i put the data-cd in the player and it does "identify" it...it says "please insert audio cd".

[xoas]

B-Rad001-
To open and rip the cd, try the following:
First try opening dBpowerAMP Music Converter's Audio CD input, right click on the Options button, click on Standard CD emulation and look at the line Table of Contents detection. If it is unchecked, check it. If it is checked, uncheck it. Exit back to the Audio CD Input window. Is there any difference?

If not, click on the Options button, click on the line for your drive and click on the Advanced button. Making sure that your drive with the CD-RW disc is selected as the active drive, click on the Advanced icon on the line for selecting your drive. Change CD Communication to Windows Internal (Limited), click OK, click OK and see if that helps.

If neither of these works, please let us know.

Best wishes,
Bill

[B-Rad001]

B-Rad001-
To open and rip the cd, try the following:
First try opening dBpowerAMP Music Converter's Audio CD input, right click on the Options button, click on Standard CD emulation and look at the line Table of Contents detection. If it is unchecked, check it. If it is checked, uncheck it. Exit back to the Audio CD Input window. Is there any difference?

If not, click on the Options button, click on the line for your drive and click on the Advanced button. Making sure that your drive with the CD-RW disc is selected as the active drive, click on the Advanced icon on the line for selecting your drive. Change CD Communication to Windows Internal (Limited), click OK, click OK and see if that helps.

If neither of these works, please let us know.

Best wishes,
Bill

Bill, Thanks but what i did is in steps
1) Got on itunes and went to tools and changed my settings on the burning disk to audio disk while i previously had it on data disk
2)ripped it using dMC Audio CD Input
3)tried to fit every song on my psp..would not work, not enough space
4)used dBpowerAMP Music Converter and made every song smaller and fit it on my psp

Thanks for all of this help! this is the most friendly and helpful forum i have used thanks!!

[B-Rad001]

okay new problem. I bought a Itunes video in m4V format and i want it in either AVI, VOD, MPG,
DivX, decrypted VOB's,, MOV, MPE, 3gp, OGM, ASF, SMR and MP4).

[LtData]

Sorry, nobody has figured out how iTunes 6 works yet, or how to decrypt the videos.

[B-Rad001]

im not 100% sure but i dont think their movies are protected!

[ChristinaS]

Google for a decoder for .m4v to other formats. You may find something to convert first to .mp4 and then maybe use 3ivx to convert to something else.

Most likely nothing free though.

[B-Rad001]

okay...now i need a video in smaller mbs...anything free?

[ChristinaS]

What file format did you end up getting?

You can always use Windows Media Encoder since you have filters in place. This will make wmv in many possible combinations of bitrates.


I'd recommend using it to make the highest quality wmv and then use Windows Movie Maker to produce different versions - this also lets you add titles, captions, effects, etc. Unfortunately Windows Movies Maker does not work with mp4's even with the DirectShow filters in place, whereas Windows Media Encoder does.

Both are free programs from Microsoft. Google for them, as I don't know the exact address where you can get them.

If you want to produce mpg I fear there are no free programs around - or no free programs that can make a file bigger than 30 seconds or 1 minute.

If you find one don't forget to post here, I'm interested too (but not a cracked version of something else ) ;)

[worb]

Why people use DRM music services are beyond me. At the prices they charge (in the UK) it is cheaper to buy a CD than get the album from itunes! And lets face it a CD is far better than a mp3 or AAC file - isn't it?

Personally I use iTunes to just buy the songs I wont to have. Sure there are some artist that I like all their songs on any give CD, but there are a lot of artists that I only like one or two songs on a CD. This is were iTunes and like companies that make it "worth" it for me.

And I don't convert to mp3 to steal. My radio in my car plays mp3's so that is the reason I want to convert them.

On another side note, is there any word out as to when the music downloaded with 6.x can be converted? I know there are other ways of doing it, but it is worth it to me to pay for a program that I can just right click on a file to convert it.

[LtData]

JHymn, the easiest method of converting iTunes-purchased tracks, still doesn't work with iTunes 6.x. Yet.
The only other ways of unprotecting your tracks so dMC can convert them is to use Auxiliary Input or use iTunes to burn them to a CD and then rip the CD.

[fraggle]

frankly, downloading from walmart.com is 11c cheaper than itunes. but i wanted a few songs that artists did "exclusively" on itunes. so i'm trying to convert... irevolt's webpage is undergoing issues so i havent gotten that one yet, going to try to get the hymn one. another question is, if a song has surpassed it's "5 computer limit" after downloading, if there's always a way to bypass those things, how do you do it on those files other than the whole burn/rip method?

[LtData]

First, JHymn has replaced Hymn, but neither work with iTunes 6. This is the easiest way to unprotect your m4p files.

As for the 5 computer limit, I don't know.

[djmook]

If you haven't purchased anything using Itunes 6 you can still use Itunes 5 to purchase music and use JHymn to crack the DRM. You might want to create two accounts: one for videos on itunes 6 and one for music on itunes 5.

As far as the 5 computer kimit is concerned you need to deauthorize one of the 5 computers for the account the file was purchased on. If that isn't an option you can reset the account so than no comuters are authorized and then you can have your 5 free authorizations back.

[nort.andy]

really annoying but way round it.... burn your purchased .mp4 files to an audio CD, then use converter from CD and rip to mp3. simple!

[loveojazz]

:thumbup:
Here's one way that worked for me, but will cost you a cd.
1. Prior to doing anything use the 'option' feature and find the 'import' tag. Here select to import the 'MP3' format.
2. Now, Burn the the M4P's onto a CD.
3. When it has finished burning, enter that CD into your computer again.
4. Itune (V7) will prompt you to import.
5. Once it has finished converting, the file is now in MP3 Format.
6. You can find it location by using the 'get info' function

Hope it helps!

[GiacomoGo]

:thumbup:
Here's one way that worked for me, but will cost you a cd.

Better yet, stop wasting CDs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtfairuse

As far as I know, DVD Jon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_Jon) brought down DRM nonsense nearly single-handedly (at least conceptually).

[Rooshk34]

It's really not hard to convert M4P to Mp3, but can be kind of obnoxious. (Actually you can do it without ever leaving iTunes.)

1. Just pay download your music like you normally would through iTunes.

2. Create a playlist.

3. Copy the songs to the playlist. Open the playlist.

4. On the bottom of the iTunes window (next to the Eject Disc. and the Quickly browse your iTunes library button) click on the button that says Burn Disc.

5. Wait for it to finish burning.

6. Eject the CD and put it back in.

7. iTunes should prompt if you'd like to import the CD. If not simply click the Import CD button in the bottom right-hand corner.

Note: You can import the CD as MP3 format into Windows Media Player or any other player just like you would with any other CD.

[Baleno_E]

Virtual Burner? I haven't heart that before...
I think I would have a try...