Is it necessary to convert M4P to FLAC
If you have purchased iTunes from iTunes store and your primary audio players supports FLAC playback, you may need to convert M4P to FLAC. But wait a moment, is it necessary to convert M4P to FLAC since M4P is lossy while FLAC is lossless. In fact, if you concern the sound quality and don't mind the bigger file size, converting M4P to FLAC will be better than converting M4P to Ogg or M4P to Mp3. You can tell from the difference between MP3 and FLAC that converted from the same M4P file.
How to Convert M4P to FLAC
You can convert M4P to FLAC with two normal ways. The first one is to burn the M4P files to an audio CD in iTunes then rip the audio CD to FLAC. iTunes can only rip audio CD to MP3, you may need to find another CD ripper. The second way is to record the audio streams and output the streams to FLAC, the problems is that most sound recording program won't output FLAC files. What is more, these two ways are not convenient and efficient cause they cost too much time and extra work.
Noteburner introduces the third way, the virtual CD burner technology, to convert M4P to FLAC. The steps are similar with normal burning and ripping, however, Noteburner doesn't need real CD disc, neither a real CD burner. Noteburner should work with media players such as iTunes, Windows Media Player, SonicStage and so on.
Convert M4P to FLAC with Noteburner
Noteburner simulates burning and ripping process to convert M4P to FLAC. For converting M4P to FLAC, you need to use Noteburner with iTunes. Noteburner installs a virtual CD burner on your computer and what you need to do is to choose Noteburner's virtual CD-RW as current CD burner.
The virtual CD burner enables you to choose the maximum burning speed to convert M4P to FLAC, thus the converting will be much faster than real burning and ripping or sound recording. Noteburner also perfectly preserves all the tags including album name, artist, genre, song title and even the album artwork. You can easily manage the files by setting the file structure. Playlist, album or artist are available.
Noteburner not only converts M4P to FLAC, but also converts DRM protected M4B to FLAC and DRM protected WMA to FLAC. In fact, Noteburner converts all kinds of audio formats, including DRM protected M4P, M4B and unprotected M4A, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, RA, WAV to MP3, WMA, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and WAV files.
With Noteburner, you can easily convert your iTunes music to FLAC and enjoy the songs with better sound quality on iRiver E100, iRiver Spinn, Sandisk Sansa Fuze, Cowon A3 and iAudio F2 and other FLAC compatible mp3 players.
