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Anyone know where i can get a FREE program to convert MY downloaded music from itunes to play in MY stuff??


I just got an iTunes account today and i cant do anything with the files, it sucks!!!!

Was it bought from iTunes or ripped from CD's?

For future use, if your ripping from CD's you can change the preferences to burn to MP3 for CD's.

An old trick for the removal of DRM is to burn them to a CD and then re-import them back into itunes, but at a loss of audio quality, though there was a program floating about the Internet that stripped the DRM off of the files for you, erm, think it was called FairUse.

Try this one at Engadget

Dan

"FairUse" will only remove the DRM protection ( ) from WMA files AFAIK

these are files i have downloaded from iTunes. They are in the .M4P format and i would like to keep the quality as much as i can!

Try this one at Engadget

Did you?

Dan

yes i did and i tried that hymn program and couldnt get it to work. I kept getting that unable to locate user key error. I am still looking for other methods as well as keep trying this one. THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

burn them to a CD and then re-rip the tracks. You will have to manually put in song titles and what not, but it works. I do it so I can stream them to my 360.

Tunebite will allow you to convert drm protected files to wav. The loss of sound quality if you want to convert it to mp3 is a small problem. But no matter what method you use, that's going to be what you're faced with.

http://www.tunebite.com/en/tunebite/index.html

I used a program called dBpoweramp to convert a bunch of them over not too long ago. I wasn't aware of any loss in sound quality but can go back and check.
It uses Lame, but the versions you can download now require you to pay up front, I still have an older version that is free, you just install and then install the m4p-mp3 codec. Let me know via PM if you'd like me to send this over.

-Brian

I have almost just said screw it, the fact that i have to plug in a password almost every time i want to listen to a song i downloaded legally. The F*** with that. Also it will only let me reformat 5 times before i have to buy the songs again. BS!!!!!!!

If you de-authorize the compputrer before you reformat (I know, not always do able) it will let you play them again without using another of your 5 'chances'.

But yeah, stripping DRM time

Dan

Bwall wrote:I used a program called dBpoweramp to convert a bunch of them over not too long ago. I wasn't aware of any loss in sound quality but can go back and check.
It uses Lame, but the versions you can download now require you to pay up front, I still have an older version that is free, you just install and then install the m4p-mp3 codec. Let me know via PM if you'd like me to send this over.

-Brian

m4p and mp3 files are lossy compression. That means every time you compress a file with them you lose some sound quality. mp3's usually do it by cutting off the frequencies above 16k. So if you take a lossy compressed file, convert it wav, then compress it with another lossy compression method, you lose quality twice. Like dubbing a cassette.

I can not find a free converter which can convert m4p to mp3? Maybe you can try some converter in the trial period.

Those programs will never be free.
Choose one of them, I recommend Noteburner since I have been using this tool and it worked well.

ummm buddy you can use iTunes to convert any of the formats it has into any of the formats it has.

what you want to do is read this page, it'll explain better than i can, considering i've only had iTunes for about 2 months, and i just converted an mp4 to an mp3 so i could use another program to make a custom ringtone. anyhow give it a go!

OH WOW!!!! LAWL

I will have to give that a freaking try!! If it will work, this will be funny as heck. RIGHT UNDER MY NOSE!!!! LOLOLOL

Hymn works for linux if you need to convert m4p files. It is free.
Maybe you can also rip a CD first, then rip it to MP3.

Dragon_Cooler wrote:Anyone know where i can get a FREE program to convert MY downloaded music from itunes to play in MY stuff??


I just got an iTunes account today and i cant do anything with the files, it sucks!!!!

I just stumble upon this guide to convert itunes m4p to mp3 with two ways, that may be helpful

http://www.wmatomp3-converter.com/guide ... o-MP3.html

Thanks for the continued suggestions guys, but this thread is ages old, so it's getting locked.

Dan