Remove DRM of iTunes M4P and Convert M4P to M4A

As we know, iTunes Store sells AAC music files including DRM protected M4P and M4B, and DRM-Free M4A. NoteBurner M4P to M4A Converter can convert DRM protected M4P files to unprotected M4A format. It can also convert DRM protected M4B audio books to M4A format. The M4P to M4A converters includes windows version and MAC version, which makes you easily convert M4P to M4A, M4B to M4A on Windows or MAC. Noteburner M4P to M4A Converter can also convert DRM protected WMA to M4A. As a versatile audio converter, Noteburner M4P to M4A converter also converts any other audio formats to M4A at amazing fast speed and with good sound quality.

Noteburner M4P to M4A converter not only supports M4A output, but also supports MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC and WAV output formats for various usage.

AAC Audio Formats

Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at many bit rates. AAC's best known use is as the default audio format of Apple's iPhone, iPod, iTunes, and the format used for all iTunes Store audio.

The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple Inc. and was opened on April 28, 2003. As of June 2008, the store has sold 5 billion songs, accounting for more than 70% of worldwide online digital music sales and making the service the largest legal music retailer. Most downloaded files come with restrictions on their use, enforced by FairPlay, Apple's version of digital rights management. However, iTunes has begun a retroactive shift into selling DRM-free music. DRM protected files has M4P and M4B formats while DRM-FREE are M4A files. You can find the difference among M4A, M4B and M4P below.

M4A:   Audio-only MPEG-4 files generally have a .m4a extension. This is especially true of non-protected content.
M4P:   MPEG-4 files with audio streams encrypted by FairPlay Digital Rights Management as sold through the iTunes Store use the .m4p extension.
M4B:   Audio book and podcast files, which also contain metadata including chapter markers, images, and hyperlinks, can use the extension .m4a, but more commonly use the .m4b extension. An .m4a audio file cannot "bookmark" (remember the last listening spot), whereas .m4b extension files can.

AAC is widely used

Apple is not the only one to adopt AAC as standard audio format. AAC is also the standard audio format for Sony�fs PlayStation 3 and is supported by Sony's Playstation Portable, latest generation of Sony Walkman, Walkman Phones from Sony Ericsson, Nintendo's Wii, the Nintendo DSi, and the MPEG-4 video standard. Unprotected AAC, the M4A audio files, are playable on many portable audio or video players and mobile phones such as Nokia N95, Nokia 5300 Xpress music, BlackBerry Pearl, BlackBerry Bold 9000, Samsung SGH-i900, Samsung SGH U600, Cowon O2, iAudio 7 and many more.

Convert M4P to M4A with iTunes

In fact, you can convert M4P to M4A with iTunes. Create a playlist and add the M4P files you want to convert to M4A, and burn them to audio CD. After burning, you can insert the audio CD, it will appear in iTunes in a few minutes, in import CD settings, you can choose AAC as output format. Then rip the CD and iTunes will convert M4P to M4A. However, if you are try to convert all your M4P to M4A, burning and ripping may cost you much time to wait and dozens of CD discs.

Convert M4P to M4A with Noteburner

Noteburner M4P to M4A Converter is a smart way for converting M4P to M4A. It installs a virtual CD burner on your computer and simulates burning and ripping process. Noteburner M4P to M4A Converter uses the virtual CD burner to emulate your computer RAM and hard disk as erasable CD-RW drive (Virtual CD-RW), that is to say, you can easily convert M4P to M4A without a real CD disc and a CD burner. The Virtual CD burner will automatically create several virtual CD to convert M4P to M4A if the whole length of the M4P files are longer than a CD length. That means batch conversion from M4P to M4A becomes possible.

Noteburner M4P to M4A Converter uses the virtual CD burner and it's possible to set the maxmium burning speed for burning. That is why Noteburner is much faster than any other audio converter to convert M4P to M4A. So no matter how many M4P files you want to convert to M4A, Noteburner M4P to M4A Converter will convert M4P to M4A for you automatically, there is no long-waiting any more! And no heavy CD collections either!

Noteburner M4P to M4A Converter also preserves all the tags information. Album name, song title, track number, album artwork will be saved in converted M4A files.

Noteburner M4P to M4A Converter is amazing yet simple. All you need to do is to set Noteburner's virtual CD burner as default CD burner in iTunes and check the "include CD text" for preserving tags. Noteburner M4P to M4A Converter doesn't crack DRM of M4P, it will work only if you have the right to play and burn the M4P files. Noteburner M4P to M4A converter also converts DRM protected M4B to M4A.

With Noteburner M4P to M4A Converter, you can easily convert all M4P files you purchase from iTunes store to M4A files. If you are still looking for a program to convert M4P to M4A, Noteburner will be the best choice. Noteburner M4P to M4A Converter has both windows version and MAC version, whatever you are using XP, Vista or Mac OS, Noteburner will convert M4P to M4A for you!

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