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The music downloaded from iTunes is DRM protected as M4P, or “protected AAC”. If you want to play this kind of music beyond Apple environment (iTunes, iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV), you need to remove the DRM and convert it to (DRM free) MP3, WMA, WAV format or else.

The following guide is going to share with you how to remove DRM from iTunes M4P music and convert iTunes M4P to MP3. It introduces two different ways:

Part 1. Convert iTunes M4P to MP3 by burning an audio CD and ripping it back

1. Insert a CD-R or CD-RW disc into your CD-ROM drive.

2. Burn the iTunes M4P playlist to make an Audio CD. You cannot select the “MP3 CD” option since it requires the DRM protected iTunes M4P files be converted to MP3.

3. After the Audio CD is successfully burned, insert the disc into your CD-ROM drive again. Then you can use iTunes or Windows Media Player to import the music tracks on the burned disc as MP3 files.

Part 2. Convert iTunes M4P to MP3 using Digital Music Converter

Step 1. Download Digital Music Converter, install and launch it. ( Free Download )

Step 2. Add iTunes M4P files

You can import the iTunes M4P files in three ways:

a. Load files by clicking the “Add…” button.

b. Directly drag and drop files to the left main window.

c. Right click on the left main window, click “Add files”.

Step 3. Select the output format

By clicking the “Convert to:” box, you can select the output format for the source M4P files. You can choose MP3, M4A, AC3, AAC, etc. as the output format according to your needs.

Note: This iTunes M4P to MP3 Converter also allows you to customize the audio parameters for the output files if you are not satisfied with the default settings or cannot find the most appropriate output format for your specific mobile player. Just click the “Settings…” button to make the settings.

Step 4. Start to convert M4P to MP3

Click the “Start” button to begin to convert M4P to MP3. Then, you can enjoy the iTunes music without any limitation.

Note: If you want to convert iTunes video M4V (movies or TV shows purchased from iTunes store) to plain MP4, MOV, WMV, FLV, etc, please download Media Converter Pro to help you.

If you are fond of some video clips from a DVD movie and want to add it to the slideshow you are making with your Windows Movie Maker, you may get into the trouble that the DVD format is incompatible with Windows Movie Maker. The following step by step tutorial may help you out of the headache.

Before getting started, let’s know something about DVD and Windows Movie Maker.

General DVDs have CSS copy protection in MPEG-2 or VOB format.
Windows Movie Maker is a totally free program that comes with Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional, and Windows Vista (also called Windows DVD Maker). Windows Windows Movie Maker supports WMV, AVI and MPG video files.

To put DVD movie clips into Windows Movie Maker, you need to convert your DVD to WMV or AVI video first, and then load it into your Windows Movie Maker project. I’d prefer using Aimersoft DVD Ripper to do this. ( Free Download )

Step 1. Import DVD movie

Insert your DVD disc into your DVD-Rom, then run the software, click “Load DVD” button and add the DVD file. You can also add DVD/IFO from your hard disk by clicking “Load File”

Note: This DVD Ripper can rip copyright protected DVD movies, but you should remember it is illegal to rip DVD for any business purpose.

Step 2. Choose output format/subtitle/audio track, trim the movie

After you load the DVD files, click the “Profile” drop-down list to select “WMV – Windows Media Video (*.wmv)” or “AVI – Audio Video Interleaved (*.avi)” as the output format.

A regular DVD movie has multiple “Subtitles” and “Audio Tracks”. This DVD Ripper allows you to select any available subtitle and audio track to convert to the specific video/audio format you need.

If you just want a certain part of the DVD movie, you can click the “Trim” button to cut the DVD movie. You can drag the timeline bar to set the start and end time or simply input the “Start Time” and “End Time” to get the specific part of the movie.

Note: If you want to output higher quality video, click the “Settings” button to open the panel. There you can customize video bitrate, audio bitrate, resolution, framerate, etc.

Step 3. Start to convert

After the above steps, you just need to click “Start” and wait for the conversion to be finished. It takes about 40 minutes to convert a common two hours DVD movie.

Step 4. Import the output video into Windows Movie Maker

Run Windows Movie Maker. Tn the “Movie Task” bar, click “Add Video” to browse your computer and locate and import the converted files. Then you can start to make personal movies.

Tip: Many users may wonder how they can convert Windows Movie Maker file (*.MSWMM) to other video format or burn MSWMM to DVD. A *.MSWMM is a project file of Windows Movie Maker; it is not a video file (more like a record file). You can open *.MSWMM file in Windows Movie Maker (click “File -> Open Project Project…”) and save the movie to your computer: go to the “Tasks” bar, click “Finish Movie” and then click “Save to my computer”.

Mac iTunes got erased? Here is an easy way for putting music, videos, playlists, photos and more from iPhone back to Mac and from iPhone to iTunes in a direct way. That is to use this iPhone to Mac Transfer program

It is an easy-to-use iPhone to Computer transfer software can fast copy songs from iphone to mac and manage your music, videos, photos, podcasts and TV Shows between iPhone and Mac.
All you need is to download it and transfer all music and other files from iPhone back to your iTunes. This won’t overwrite any original files on your iPhone. And all song names are preserved.

It has saved me lots of time on this.
If you need to upload iPhone files back to mac/iTunes, give it a try.

iPhone to Mac Transfer

Got lots of text messages on iPhone and worried about their safety?

I’d like to share an easy way to save and backup your iPhone SMS to computer and set a password to keep them safe. What’s more, you can also print out your iPhone SMS messages as you wish.

Simply use this iPhone SMS to computer transfer software to transfer all SMS messages from iPhone to computer.

Here are easy steps to transfer SMS from iPhone to computer.

Step 1: Free Download iPhone SMS to computer transfer software and install it (click HERE to get the full version and save 20%).

Step 2: Connect iPhone to your computer.

Step 3: Launch iPhone SMS to computer transfer softw, the SMS contact info will be automatically displayed as shown in your iPhone screen (example see the following screenshot).

Note: Click on certain contact, the detailed SMS records will be displayed as shown in the below screenshot.

Step 4: If you want to copy all SMS to computer, click “Copy ALL SMS” on the top right of the first screenshot. And then select options:

1): Choose File Type: back up to TXT file or ANTS file; (The difference between TXT file and ANTS file lies in that ANTS file allows you to set a password for protection.
2): Choose File Path: set the desitnation parth for the exported file.
3): Advanced Option: if you choose ANTS file format, you can add a password to protect the file.
Click OK Button to finish the Copy.

Note: You can only copy the first 100 items for each contact in trail version.
Click HERE to purchase now (20% off).

If you want to copy SMS from a specific contact, click “Copy SMS From who” button and select options:
1): Choose File Type: You can only select TXT file format in single contact sms transfer;
2): Choose File Path: where to store the backup file;
Note: Advanced Option is disabled in single contact sms transfer.
Click OK Button to finish the Copy.

To sumup, this Tansee iPhone Transfer SMS is a very useful tool for backup your iphone SMS details effortlessly. You might need it when you want to backup/manage your SMS on your pc. You can get its full version now HERE at a very competitive price, or see more details HERE (20% discount currently).

Hope this can help you manage all your iPhone SMS messages now.

how to backup iPhone contacts and contacts photos to PC? Many iPhone users have the same question: What is the best way to backup your iPhone contacts to PC and transfer iPhone contacts photos to computer as well? Here is a tip for iPhone users.
Simply use this handy iPhone Contacts backup program.

It can help iPhone users easily transfer iPhone contacts and contact photos from iPhone to computer and keep them safe on the computer.

The following are easy steps on backing up your iPhone contacts and contact photos.

Step 1:Free Download Tansee iPhone Transfer Contact, and install it on your computer (skip if done yet).

Step 2: Connect iPhone to your computer.

Step 3: Launch this iPhone Contact backup
software, your contacts on iphone memory will display as shown in your iPhone screen automatically as fig 1.

Fig 1

Note: Click on certain name, all contact infomation will display as fig 2 shown.

Fig2

Step 4-a: In Fig 1 situation, you can click button “Copy ALL Contacts” to copy contacts from your iPhone , then select options:

1: Choose File Type: back up to TXT file or ANTC file;

2: Choose File Path: where to store the backup file; You can change the backup path if you do not use default path.

3: Advanced Option: if you choose ANTC format in step 1, you can add a password to protect the file. Note: Only you know the password, so please do remember it.
Click OK Button to finish the Copy. See Fig 3.

Note: You can only copy the first 5 contacts in trial version. Click HERE to purchase now.

Fig 3

Step 4-b: In fig 2 situation, click button “Copy Contact From who” to copy contact of a single person, select options:

1: Choose File Type: You can only select TXT file format in single contact transfer;

2: Choose File Path: where to store the backup file, do nothing if you choose default path;

3: Advanced Option: Disabled in single contact transfer.

Click OK Button to finish the Copy. See fig 4.

Note you can only copy the first 5 contacts in trial version. Click HERE to purchase now.

Fig 4

In brief, this handy iPhone Contacts backup offers the best way to backup iPhone contacts to computer. It will help
you a lot when you want to backup/manage your contacts and contact photos from iPhone to your computer.
You can get its full version now HERE at a very competitive price.
Learn more details here.

Hope these could help you manage your iPhone contacts well.