How to play itunes protected music on Sony Walkman with NoteBurner Audio Converter

Convert iTunes music to MP3, AAC format playable on Sony Walkman

Convert iTunes music to MP3, AAC playable on Sony Walkman.

Sony Walkman is a popular Sony brand used to market its portable audio and video players, there are Sony Walkman A-series, E-series and S-series sold on current market. Sony Walkman has a lot of entertainment features. As a music lover, what we concern is what music can be playable on Sony Walkman. In fact, Sony Walkman mp3 video players supports playback of MP3 and WMA, DRM protected WMA and unprotected AAC audio files, some Sony Walkman mp3 players don't support AAC playback. However, the iTunes Music Store songs you purchase from iTunes Store, are not playable on your Sony Walkman, because they are DRM protected, preventing users from playing on Sony Walkman.

iTunes allows you to burn the DRM protected songs to audio CD, and with CD ripper program, you can extract the tracks from the cd and rip them into MP3 or AAC formats. Noteburner Audio Converter simulates burning and ripping process with a virtual CD burner, helps you easily to convert iTunes music to unprotected AAC or MP3 compatible with your Sony Walkman.

Since Sony Walkman can accept both AAC and MP3 format and AAC's sound quality is better than MP3, it's recommend to convert iTunes music to AAC rather than MP3. However, if the player doesn't support AAC, please convert iTunes music to MP3 instead.

NoteBurner Audio Converter converts any DRM protected music files (such as M4P, M4A, WMA, M4B) and unprotected music (WMA, MP3, RAX, MP4, WAV, RA, SND, OGG, AIF) to plain MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, FLAC and OGG formats

Noteburner installs a virtual CD burner on your computer, it should work with a media player with burning features like iTunes, Windows Media Player, Realplayer, etc. Below is the simple instruction for using Noteburner Audio Converter with iTunes to converte iTunes music to unprotected AAC and MP3.

1. Create a new playlist in iTunes and name it as you like.

2. Add songs to your playlist until you have approximately 72-minutes of music, which is the maximum supported by Audio CDs.

3. Select Noteburner's virtual CD burner as your default CD burner. In iTunes 7, you can do it by Edit -- Preferences -- Advanced -- Burning -- CD burner. In iTunes 8, please click Burn Disc button in the right bottom, and simply select Noteburner's Virtual CD burner in CD burner list.

4. Start burning.

After all the iTunes music are converted to AAC or MP3, click Folder button and you can find the output files.

Transfer the converted iTunes music to Sony Walkman

You can transfer data, including the AAC or MP3 music files converted from iTunes music, to the portable player by directly dragging and dropping the files using the Windows Explorer interface on your computer. Follow the steps below to transfer.

1. Locate the song files you would like to transfer to your Sony Walkman.
2. Click Start and then click My Computer or directly click My Computer on desktop.
3. In the My Computer window, under Other , double click the icon for your portable player.
4. In the My Computer\[Name of your portable player] window, double click Storage Media .
5. Drag and drop files or folders into the MUSIC folder.

After the files are successfully transferred, you can enjoy the iTunes music on Sony Walkman as you like. This instruction can be used for all Sony Walkman players including Sony Walkman NWZ-A726, Sony Walkman NWZ-A815, Sony Walkman NWZ-A828K, Sony Walkman NWZ-E436F, Sony Walkman NWZ-S615F and Sony Walkman NWZ-S716F.

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