m4p wma converter: Convert iTunes M4P to WMA, iTunes M4P Converter, M4P converter software

How to convert iTunes M4P to WMA: m4p wma converter

M4P files are iTunes protected media format in AAC audio codec. However, many M4P owners want to convert M4P to WMA, which is a preferable audio format for Windows PCs or other devices. This short tutorial will introduce you a very useful software, TunePat, to do this job. With a virtual CD-RW burner installed by TunePat, you can get WMA files very easily. By doing this, you can also burn M4A, M4B files to MP3, WAV, WMA formats.

TunePat: Convert iTunes M4P to WMA: m4p wma converter

1. Download and install TunePat. This software excellently converts iTunes M4P music to WMA or MP3, DRM protected WMA music to MP3 or unprotected WMA, as well as converting any other audio files to MP3, WMA or WAV format. While converting audio files at fast speed, TunePat encodes MP3, WMA and WAV files with outstanding sound quality through the virtual CD-RW installed.

2. Open TunePat, go to Settings and set WMA as output format. If you like, you can change encoding codec, select different format bitrate, etc:
Select mp3 as output format in TunePat
Note: This TunePat can convert iTunes music to WAV and MP3 formats as well.

3. In iTunes, go to menu File > New Playlist, create a new play list to add the iTunes music you want to convert:
Add new playlist for M4P files in iTunes

4. Turn to this new play list, click Burn Disc button on the bottom-right of iTunes, and set TunePat as CD burner in Burn Settings window:

Select TunePat as default burner in iTunes

5. TunePat will burn these iTunes files virtually, and after a while, you are able to check converted WMAs in TunePat. You can also right click on the music, and select Open File Location to find it in your hard drive:
Check converted M4P files

About iTunes and iTunes Store: m4p wma converter

iTunes is an audio player for playing and organizing digital music files, and purchasing digital music files in the FairPlay digital rights management format. It supports playing various formats like M4P, MP3, AAC, M4B, M4A, AIFF, WAV etc. Now it's available for Mac OS X, Windows Vista and XP. And its version 8 released in September adds genius playlists feature, which automatically generate a playlist of 25, 50, 75 or 100 songs from user's library that are similar to the selected song.

The iTunes Store (as iTunes Music Store) is the component of iTunes through which users can purchase digital music files within iTunes. With music from all five major music companies and more than 600 independent labels, the iTunes Music Store catalog now offers more than 1,000,000 audio files. Features include a free download with no hidden charges for extra features, MP3 and pristine-quality AAC-encoding from audio CDs, smart playlists, more than 250 free Internet-radio stations, and the ability to burn custom playlists to CDs and MP3 CDs, to burn content to DVDs to back up an entire music collection, and to share music via Rendezvous over any network, cross-platform. The iTunes Store has already sold 5 billion songs, according to a report released in June, 2008. This amount keeps increasing, of course.

iTunes Store file formats: m4p wma converter

M4P
Protected .AAC audio format; incorporates Apple Computer's "Fairplay" DRM copy protection, which limits the number of computers the file can be played on.

M4B
Audiobook file based on the MPEG-4 container format; typically compressed with .AAC encoding; nearly identical to a .M4A file, but denoted as an audiobook and can be "bookmarked" by supporting audio players.

M4V
MPEG-4 video format that include copyright protection; includes music videos, TV episodes, and full-length movies.

TunePat iTunes Music Converter for Windows PC

Most of the tracks purchased from iTunes Store are protected by DRM (Digital Rights Management), which restricts the consumers from doing reasonable things with the music they own. Hence you need to convert those media files to a common audio format as MP3, no matter your songs are DRM protected or not. An MP3 file can be played on almost all media players or devices nowadays, so if you convert iTunes music to MP3 successfully, you will get the real freedom.

Inconvenience after buying iTunes Store music

There are a lot of inconvenience if you don't find some method to escape from iTunes protection technology. For example, you may be not able to use iTunes DRMed songs in other portable digital devices, like PSP, Zune, Mobile Phone, even you're the legal owner of those songs and those devices; the maximun 5 authrized computers limitation may make you unable to access your songs in the future once they forget to deauthorize some computers. In a word, the DRM protection affects the freedom of legal owners.

Convert function in iTunes

iTunes does support converting music. In the main pane, right click on the music, there's an option "Create XXX Version" (XXX stands for MP3 or AAC or other formats you set in Edit > Preference > Import Settings), but this only works for unprotected formats like WAV, WMA, AAC, MP3. If you want to convert songs bought from iTunes Store, iTunes will remind you "Protected files cannot be converted to other formats".

How to use iTunes to convert protected music

Though iTunes cannot convert DRM music directly through "Create MP3 Version", it has burning feature integrated. Many consumers know how to burn protected songs to CD first then use iTunes to rip it later. However, this method wastes CDs and cannot assure the sound quality of converted MP3, since physical intermedia is used. Moreover, burning and ripping take a lot of invaluable time. Any method to solve such problem? TunePat is the answer.

TunePat Audio Converter utilizes virtual CD burning technology to simulate the burning and ripping process. With this advanced audio format converting mechanism, TunePat excellently converts iTunes music to MP3 or AAC, DRM protected WMA music to MP3 or unprotected WMA, as well as converting any other audio files to MP3, AAC, WMA, or WAV format. While converting audio files at fast speed, TunePat encodes MP3, WMA, AAC and WAV files with outstanding sound quality, and allows you to strip off the DRM so you can listen to your legally purchased songs however you'd like.