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Convert M4P to MP3 for free

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1 Introduction
2 What you'll need
3 Steps
4 Alternate methods
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Introduction

Most songs sold through the iTunes Store are encoded using FairPlay-encrypted 128 kbits/s AAC streams in an MP4 wrapper, using M4P extension. Apple has maintained tight control of its FairPlay encryption. Other online music stores cannot sell music files encoded with FairPlay. This means that consumers who want to listen to songs downloaded from the iTunes Store must either have an iPod or convert the files to an open format.

What you'll need

iTunes
CD Burner or a virtual CD burner
license to the music you want to convert

Steps

Step 1: Run iTunes 8. Create a new playlist in iTunes and add all m4p files you want to convert to this new list.

Step 2: Click on the Burn Disc button to start burning the playlist. If you don't have a physical burner, you may use a virtual burner program, NoteBurner. Go to http://www.noteburner.com to download the program. After you install it, you can choose NoteBurner Virtual CD-RW as your default burner to burn the playlist. (If you use NoteBurner, you need to select the output format in NoteBurner before burning the playlist. In NoteBurner, click Settings button, then you can set the output as MP3, WAV and WMA).

Step 3: After NoteBurner finish encoding, the converted file will be automatically listed on the main window of NoteBurner. Click Play button or double-click any song to play the music. Click the Folder button to open the output folder, where you will find the converted MP3 files.