If you’ve got an iPod, you go and buy m4p files from iTunes store, but then your machines dies, or have many computers and mobile devices you listen to music on, or maybe sometimes you use an operating system not supported by iTunes, so how can you listen to your purchased music? Well, NoteBurner M4P Converter will help you to do the trick!
As you know, M4P is the DRM protected music sold on iTunes Music Store. M4P music must be purchased and get authorized with restrictions on their use, enforced by FairPlay. Users can make no more than 7 CD copies of any particular playlist containing songs purchased from the iTunes Store. Users can access their purchased songs on no more than five computers. And they cannot edit M4P files. The only way to edit M4P songs so that you can use the music for some purpose is converting M4P to MP3 first.
According to the recent Stat, iTunes Store sells billions of songs every year, accounting for more than 80% of worldwide online digital music sales, most of the songs are in the format of m4p. And these m4p songs are limited by Apple on the usage. That’s why so many m4p music owners are seeking solutions to free their purchased songs.
NoteBurner M4P Converter is most excellent tool for converting iTunes music formats, such as M4P, AAC, M4A, M4A, to mp3. It introduces a smart way of converting a wide range of audio file formats to MP3, WMA and WAV by utilizing virtual burning technology. This amazing CD burner emulator easily automates the whole workflow for converting protected music or audio files to normal music files: ripping, burning, encoding are within only ONE click. This unique All-in-One feature helps NoteBurner M4P Converter convert any DRM protected WMA, M4P music and M4B, MP3, rax, MP4, WAV, RA, snd, OGG, aif music to unprotected MP3, WAV, WMA formats at fast speed and high quality.
The supported formats of NoteBurner M4P Converter are listed below:
At present, NoteBurner M4P Converter has both the Windows & Mac systems compatible versions. To convert iTunes m4p to mp3 for you iPod, you just need to run NoteBurner M4P Converter and iTunes simultaneously. Below is a detailed step by step instruction on how to convert m4p to mp3:
Step 1: Download NoteBurner M4P Converter from http://www.noteburner.com/, and then install and run it.
Step 2: Set mp3 as the output format in NoteBurner
Step 3: Set NoteBurner M4P Converter as the default CD burner for iTunes
1. Run iTunes
2. Click menu Edit and choose Preferences
3. Follow tabs Advanced>Burning, and set NoteBurn Virtual_CD-RW as the CD burner
4. Click to choose your preferred burning speed (Note: select a slower burning speed here may help you to avoid skips, shutters, gaps in mp3 audiobooks converted by NoteBurner M4P Converter)
5. Choose Audio CD as the Disc Format
6. Check the Include CD Text check box
7. Click the OK button to save the changes
Step 4: Add m4p files to the playlist
You can burn the existing iTunes playlist, or create a new playlist, and then add selected M4P files to the playlist for converting to MP3.
1. Choose the menu File > New Playlist\
2. Select M4P files or audiobooks in your iTunes library
3. Right-click on the selected m4p files, and choose “Add to Playlist > untitled playlist 3 (The playlist you create)”
4. Click the playlist (untitled playlist 3) you would like to burn under the PLAYLISTS on the left panel, and you will see all the selected m4p files.
Tips:It’s suggested that one playlist shall not contain more than 700 MB m4p files, that’s approximately 60-minute length music. NoteBurner M4P to MP3 Converter utilizes virtual CD burning mechanism to converting audio files. And as you may know, a CD-R disc can only hold 700 MB files in maximum.
Step 5: Burn the iTunes playlist
Click on the Burn Disc button in iTunes to start burning the playlist.
After iTunes finishes burning, NoteBurner M4P Converter will start encoding the MP3 files on the bottom right window.
Tips: Audiobooks usually are large audio file with the playtime up to 2-3 hours. In this case, NoteBurner M4P Converter will convert the audiobook into several separated MP3 files.
Step 6: Get the output MP3 files
The converted playlist and songs will show up on the main window of NoteBurner M4P Converter.
1. You can double-click any song to preview the music, or click the Play button to play selected song
2. Click the Folder button to open the output folder, where you will find the converted MP3 files
Now, it’s time for you to transfer your converted m4p files to iPod.
iPod offers three ways to transfer music from your computer. You can select one of the following update modes from the iPod Preferences menu in iTunes:
1. Automatically update all songs and playlists. This is the default mode, in which your entire music library, including playlists, is automatically synched to your iPod. If the music library on your computer exceeds the iPod storage capacity, iTunes will offer to choose a selection of songs to sync to iPod.
2. Automatically update selected playlists. With this option, iTunes automatically copies only the playlists you have selected to iPod when you connect it to the computer. This option can be selected by accessing the Music tab of the iPod settings.
3. Manually manage music. You can also choose to transfer music to iPod manually. This allows you to drag and drop individual songs and playlists from iTunes to iPod. You can find this option by accessing the Summmary tab of the iPod settings.
