Can Sony Walkman NWZ-A815 Play iTunes Music?

Nowadays, more and more online music stores turn to sell DRM-free mp3 files because most of mp3 players doesn't support playback of DRM protected music files. Though some players can play DRM protected WMA directly, they will never be able to play DRM protected M4P files purchased from iTunes store. That is to say, Sony Walkman NWZ-A815 will not play DRM protected iTunes music though it can play the unprotected ones. If you want to play iTunes music on Sony Walkman NWZ-A815, you need to remove DRM first.

Burn and Rip to Remove DRM

DRM protection can be removed by various methods. It's different between removing DRM and cracking. Cracking is illeagle while removing DRM for personal use is allowed. The most common way is to burn and rip. In iTunes, you can create a playlist and burn to an audio CD whose length can't be longer than 73 or80 minutes according to your CD disc, then rip the cd tracks into mp3 with iTunes since iTunes can be also used as a CD ripper. If you want to rip to other formats, you may need to seek for other cd rippers. It would be find if you only purchased some songs, however, how much time will need if your need to burn and rip hundreds of songs? It's quite long and boring workflow.

Convert iTunes music for Sony Walkman NWZ-A815 with Noteburner

NoteBurner Audio Converter, who won the best DRM removing tool by Top Ten Review, help you to come out from the long time waiting of burning and ripping. Noteburner is designed as a virtual CD burner, which simulates burning and ripping to remove DRM easily. Noteburner doesn't really burn files to a physical cd disc. Using Noteburner to remove DRM, what you need to do is to set Noteburner as default CD burner in media players with burning feature like iTunes, Windows Media Player, Realplayer and so on. To remove DRM protection of iTunes music, you need to set Noteburner's virtual cd burner in iTunes. You can select it in burner lists. Before audio tracks are burned by the virtual CD burner, you can set burning speed to the max speed, Noteburner will burn very fast with no sound quality loss.

Noteburner can convert all kinds of audio files, including M4A, M4B, M4P, OGG, AIFF, WMA, RA, OMA, APE, FLAC, MP3, audio book and DRM protected WMA, to unprotected AAC, WMA, MP3, OGG, FLAC and WAV files. So you can convert M4P to AAC, M4P to Mp3, M4P to OGG, M4P to FLAC, M4P to WMA for various usage.

For Sony Walkman NWZ-A815, you can choose AAC, MP3 and WMA as output audio format. AAC is recommended because the sound quality algorithm is better than MP3 or WMA. As introduced below, Sony Walkman NWZ-A815 holds a powerful music search feature, if you want to use this feature, do not forget to check "include CD Text" option in iTunes, it will helps to keep the tags information,including album name, song title, artist, genre, in the output AAC or MP3 files. The output instructure helps you to easily manage the output music files by album, playlist or artist.

If you are using Sony Walkman NWZ-A815 or other mp3 players and have purchased many iTunes M4P songs, Noteburner will be the best choice for converting iTunes to AAC or MP3.

Now Connect your Sony Walkman NWZ-A815 with your computer, it will be recognized as a USB device, copy and paste the music to Music folder and the files converted from iTunes music will be successfully transferred to Sony Walkman NWZ-A815. Now enjoy iTunes music on your Sony Walkman NWZ-A815.