M4P and MP3 File Formats

M4P is the Protected AAC File. AAC is the audio layer from the follow-on format to MP3. The .M4P extension is AAC purchased from Apple's Music Store (iTune) and is protected by a Digital Rights Management scheme. MP4 files encrypted by FairPlay DRM as sold through Tunes Store use .m4p extension. M4P is for the DRM protected content in iTunes Store, while m4a is for the DRM-free, unprotected content.

From the first half of 1995 through the late 1990s, MP3 files began to spread on the Internet. MP3's popularity began to rise rapidly with the advent of Nullsoft's audio player Winamp (released in 1997), and the Unix audio player mpg123. The small size of MP3 files has enabled widespread peer-to-peer file sharing of music ripped from compact discs, which would previously have been nearly impossible.

Despite the popularity of MP3, online music retailers often use other proprietary formats that are encrypted (known as Digital rights management) to prevent users from using purchased music in ways not specifically authorized by the record companies. The record companies argue that this is necessary to prevent the files from being made available on peer-to-peer file sharing networks. However, this has other side effects such as preventing users from playing back their purchased music on different types of devices. The audio content of these files can be converted into an unencrypted format, however, because often the user permissions include "burn to audio CD". NoteBurner M4P to MP3 Converter is the program that ulitizes this permission in a virtual way.

iTunes Store sells billions of M4P songs every year, accounting for more than 80% of worldwide online digital music sales, most of the songs are in the format of m4p. And these m4p songs are limited by Apple on the usage. That’s why so many m4p music owners are seeking solutions to free their purchased songs.

Converting M4P to MP3 with NoteBurner Audio Converter

NoteBurner M4P to MP3 Converter utilizes virtual CD burning mechanism to convert audio files between different format. NoteBurner M4P to MP3 Convertersimulates the CD burning and ripping process, but in a virtual way. Due to its working mechanism, NoteBurner must work with media player to complete the conversion.

NoteBurner M4P to MP3 Convertercan preserve MP3 ID3 tag, containing Artist name, Song title, Year and Genre of the current audio file. The latest version of NoteBurner can also preserve album name and album art to the converted audio files.

NoteBurner M4P to MP3 Converter is developed for converting M4P to MP3, M4A to MP3, M4B to MP3, WMA to MP3. So, with M4P to MP3 Converter, you can easiy convert M4P to MP3, convert M4A to MP3, convert WMA to WAV, convert WAV to WMA, convert MP3 to WMA. Actually, NoteBurner is an Any Audio Converter software tool!

Features of NoteBurner M4P to MP3 Audio Converter

* Supports DRM protected audio files such as iTunes M4P, AAC, M4B, WMA, AA, OMA, etc.
* Supports DRM-free audio files such as WAV, WMA, AAC, AC3, APE, AIFF, etc.
* Magic fast converting speed
* Encodes output files with high-fidelity sound quality
* Works with iTunes, Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, Winamp, SonicStage
* Supports iPod, PSP, Zune, Creative Zen, Archos, SanDisk Sansa media players, and all cell phones
* Transfers ID3 tags such as title, artist, genre, album, and cover art from source audio files to MP3 files
* Batch mode for converting large collection of music