NoteBurner M4P Converter is a powerful M4P file converter. It can convert music files, MP3 downloads or even purchased iTunes DRM protected M4P, M4B, M4A files to plain MP3, WMA or WAV formats ready for use on any computers or mobile music devices such as iPod, PSP, Zune, iPhone, cell phone, MP3 player, MP4 player etc. NoteBurner M4P Converter frees you from the hassles of copy protection without defeating the DRM copy-protection technology used by your m4p files. This means it will function with all copy-protection measures, and it's completely legal.
Running NoteBurner M4P Converter and iTunes at the same time can help you convert all your m4p files to unprotected music file format at amazingly high speed.
Step 1: Download NoteBurner M4P Converter, and then install and run it.
Step 2: Choose mp3 as the output format in NoteBurner M4P Converter.
1. Click Setting button on top of NoteBurner M4P Converter's GUI
2. Browse a folder for storing the converted mp3 songs
3. Choose MP3 as the output format
4. Check the ID3Tag options
5. Click the OK button to save the changes
Step 3: Set NoteBurner M4P Converter as the default CD burner for iTunes
1. Run iTunes (Notes: In order to convert DRM m4p file to mp3, you have to run NoteBurner M4P Converter and iTunes simultaneously)
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
Step 4: Create playlist to contain songs for converting to MP3
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 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 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
With several steps above, you can convert all your protected m4p files to mp3, WAV or WMA with NoteBurner M4P Converter freely, and share them with your family and friends!
M4P file is "Protected AAC File". Songs purchased via iTunes are in the DRM protected m4p format. If they're DRM protected, it probably goes to the reason that the only DRM m4p file player is iTunes. So you need to remove DRM protections from these music files, to play on any of your computers or devices.
NoteBurner M4P Converter is the very converter for you to free your m4p files! Utilizing virtual burning technology, NoteBurner M4P Converter can convert any DRM protected M4P, WMA music and M4B, MP3, rax, MP4, WAV, RA, snd, OGG, AIF music to unprotected MP3, WAV, WMA formats at fast speed and high quality. You can download the trial version here (http://www.noteburner.com/), which allows you to convert 3-minute of each m4p files to have fun right now!
