As the most popular online music store iTunes has millions of
customers which download thousands of music every second.
M4P – a copyright protected iTunes format of "protected AAC". It is
a format of downloaded music from iTunes store that can be listened
to only through the iTunes compatible players like iPod.
So, if you want to listen to iTunes music with other mp3 players
such as Zune, Creative Zen, cell phone and play itune music on
windows media player, window movie maker or share them with your
friends, you have to convert M4P to MP3.
Now, we can convert M4P to MP3 with two methods.
1.Burning and re-import.
2.Convert M4P to MP3 with a Professional Protected Music Converter
Solution 1: M4P->CD-> MP3
To convert M4P to MP3, you can burn M4P onto a CD (using the iTunes
CD burning option), then re-import the CD as unprotected MP3 into
the iTunes library.
1. Buy songs on iTunes.
2. Insert a blank CD. (You'd better use a rewrite CD which can be
used circularly and use some software like Nero to wipe off the
music files you have processed.)
Note: You need to change iTunes settings in "Edit"->"
Preferences" before burn and import.
Follow the picture instructions below:
3. Go to File->Create a New Playlist
4. Drag and Drop files you want from your library to the New
Playlist.
5. Right-click playlist and select "Burn Playlist to Disc" or you
can left- click "Burn Disc"
6.After conversion, left-click “import CD” to import CD files to
iTunes library as MP3 format.
(And you can find the unprotected MP3 file by the side of the
original file in > "My Document" > "My music" >
"iTunes".)
Solution 2: Convert M4P to MP3
directly
Daniusoft Digital Music Converter can convert
M4P to MP3 with one step and the speed is up to 27x. It also can
convert protected WMA to MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG and various file
formats on Windows PC.
Simple steps to convert M4P to MP3:
1. Add iTunes M4P and other protected files.
2. Choose "MP3" as the output format
3. Pressthe "Start" button.
Now you can own the music forever and play it on your mp3 player,
cell phone, windows media player and other portable players without
restriction