TuneClone Simulates Burning to CD and Re-ripping
Do you have a collection of DRM protected music and want to be able to listen to that music on your portable device, in your car or any other place where you can’t play the DRM protects songs? TuneClone provides a solution for this, and doing so without breaking any DRM. Most DRM protections (like iTunes fairplay or Microsoft’s PlaysForSure) allow you to burn your music to a standard CD. This can then be ripped again and that will give you an unprotected version of your music. The drawback? It’s tedious work burning your music and then ripping it again, and you also get a quality loss from the burning and re-ripping the music.
TuneClone elliminates one of these problems, the burning to CD and re-ripping. It works by setting up a virtual CD-RW unit on your system, which you then select as your target device when burning your music. TuneClone writes your files as mp3, which you then can use as you like.
The application works well, although there are some minor glitches, I have been forced to restart the procedure a couple of times. But compared to the major hassle of burning to CD and re-ripping, it’s a super solution.
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How to Convert iTunes 9 Music to MP3
Are you annoyed by iTunes DRM? Do you want to remove it because you want to play the iTunes music on non-Apple MP3 players like PSP, Zune, Creative Zen, BlackBerry, PS3, iriver, Walkman, mobile phone MP3 player, etc, use it as background music in a home video, or anything else that DRM limits it to do? You got the right place!
The following article is going to show you how to convert DRM protected iTunes M4P to MP3, AAC to MP3, M4A to MP3 with TuneClone Audio Converter and iTunes 9.0.2 so that you can play iTunes music on any MP3/MP4 player or mobile phone music player.
Step 1. Download TuneClone Audio Converter and install it
TuneClone Audio Converter is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista (except Vista 64 bit) and Intel based Mac OS X 10.5 -10.6.
Step 2. Make settings in TuneClone Audio Converter
Click the “Settings” button in TuneClone. In the pop-up dialog, you can specify the “output folder”, “output filenames”, “output format”, etc for the output files.
Note: A Virtual CD Drive will be installed to convert iTunes music files. You must make sure this CD burner is successfully installed. you can check whether it is successfully installed and where it is installed at the bottom left corner of TuneClone interface.
Step 3. Create a playlist in iTunes 9
Create a new playlist, and add the iTunes songs you want to convert to the playlist.
Step 4. Make burning settings in iTunes 9
Right click the playlist you just created and choose “Burn Playlist to Disc”.
Or you can select part of songs from the playlist and click the “Burn Disc” at the bottom right corner of iTunes interface.
In the pop-up dialog of “Burn Settings”, make the settings as highlighted below:
Note: You need to tick the “Include CD Text” option to perserve the music metadata such as name, artist, album names.
Step 5. Start to burn
Click the “Burn” button to start burning.
After the burning gets started, TuneClone Audio Converter will automatically convert the iTunes music to MP3 files.
You can open the manager screen to show all the converted music files.
Tip: The most important step is to choose the CD burner. Then TuneClone Audio Converter will convert the music files automatically. It is exceedingly easy when you want to batch convert lots of files.
How to Convert M4A to MP3 on Mac?
Below is step by step guide that shows you how to convert iTunes M4A to MP3 on Mac OS X with TuneClone Audio Converter for Mac.
Step 1. Download TuneClone Audio Converter for Mac from http://mac.tuneclone.com and run it.
Note: During the startup, a virtual CD burner will be installed, which will be used to convert iTunes music files.
Step 2. Make settings in TuneClone Audio Converter for Mac
Go to top-left “TuneClone -> Preferences…” a window will appear as below:
Step 3. Make settings in iTunes (iTunes 9.0.1)
Create a new playlist and add the songs you are going to convert.
Right click the playlist you just created and choose “Burn Playlist to Disc”. Or you can click the “Burn Disc” button at the bottom right corner of iTunes interface.
In the pop-up dialog of “Burn Settings”, you can make settings as highlighted below:
Note: You need to tick the “Include CD Text” option to perserve the music metadata such as name, artist, album names.
Step 4. Start to burn
Click the “Burn” button to start burning. After the burning get started, TuneClone will automatically convert the iTunes music to MP3 files. You can open the TuneClone manager screen to check out the burning status.
Tip: You can easily get the output MP3 files on your Mac machine by clicking the “Reveal in Finder” button on the manager screen.
Note: The most important step is to choose the CD burner. Then the software can convert music files automatically. It is especially easy when you want to batch convert lots of files.
Extracted from http://mac.tuneclone.com/convert-m4a-to-mp3-on-mac.php
Removing DRM from iTunes Music on Mac OS X
The following article will share with you four ways of removing DRM protection from iTunes music on Mac OS X. You can choose your favorite method to help you convert iTunes M4P music to MP3 or (DRM free) AAC format for playback on MP3 Player, MP4 Player, Mobile Phone Player, etc.
Method 1. Remove DRM from iTunes music with burning-and-ripping method
1. Insert a CD-R or CD-RW disc into your CD-ROM drive
2. Run iTunes, create a new playlist and burn it to make an “Audio CD”
3. After the Audio CD is successfully burned, insert the disc into your CD-ROM drive again. Then you can use iTunes to import the music tracks on the burned disc as whatever format (MP3, AAC, etc) you selected in iTunes preferences for importing.
Method 2. Remove DRM from iTunes music with Virtual CD Burner
You will need to download TuneClone Audio Converter for Mac first. Run this DRM Removal Software and it will let you install a virtual CD burner, which will be used to convert iTunes music file.
Run iTunes, create a new playlist and add the DRM protected iTunes songs to the playlist.
Right click this playlist and choose “Burn Playlist to Disc”. Alternatively, you can click the “Burn Disc” button at the lower right corner of iTunes interface.
In the pop-up dialog of “Burn Settings”, select “CDWriter TuneClone” as default CD Burner, choose “Audio CD” as Disc Format and tick “Include CD Text” ( to perserve the music metadata such as name, artist, album names ).
Tip: You can easily get the output MP3 files on your Mac machine by clicking the “Reveal in Finder” button on the manager screen.
Method 3. Remove DRM from iTunes music with iMovie ‘09
Run iMovie and create a New Project.
In the iMovie window, select the ‘Music’ tab. You will notice that the top right portion of the interface now offers a media browser. Locate the playlist which contains purchased music, or search by artist/title.
Select the DRM-laden song and drag the file from the media browser into the iMovie timeline.
In order to export the song, iMovie requires that a visual image be associated with the audio track – iMovie thinks that it is going to be exporting a movie. Simply drag a blank image (or any other image) to the track above the previously imported audio file. Once iMovie has processed the image, select the ‘Export using QuickTime…’ sub menu item from found inside ‘Share’ in iMovie’s menu bar.
In the Save as… dialogue, select “Sound to AIFF” in the Export drop-down menu, Choose an appropriate directory for iMovie to export to, title the file, and select ‘Save’.
Locate the exported AIFF audio file and drag to your iTunes Library. Right-click on the file and select “Create MP3 Version”. Once completed, ‘Get Info’ on the new file, edit meta data, add album art, and trash the originally purchased and AIFF audio files from your iTunes library.
Method 4. Remove DRM from iTunes music with FairGame
FairGame is freeware to remove DRM protection from iTunes music on Mac OS X. It will convert the DRMed songs you bought on the iTunes Store to an unprotected format (using iTunes default encoder) and keep all the original metadata, lyrics and artwork. FairGame doesn’t do lossless DRM stripping. It re-encodes protected AAC files purchased in iTMS into unprotected AAC file using Apple’s iMovie software.
What you MUST DO (only once) to get FairGame to work:
enable “Access for assistive devices” in the “Universal Access” system preference
select “Place clip in Movie Timeline” in the “Import” preference of iMovie HD
Then you can simply:
select some songs in iTunes
click on the “Process songs” button
Don’t touch anything and wait until it’s done…(FairGame is scripting iMovie’s interface to process the songs, don’t interfere)
How to Convert M4P to MP3 on Mac OS X?
TuneClone Audio Converter for Mac is iTunes DRM Removal Software that can help you convert DRM protected iTunes M4P to MP3, M4A to MP3, AAC to MP3 on Apple Mac OS X (including Snow Leopard) with CD quality at high speed.
Below is step by step guide that shows you how to convert DRM protected iTunes M4P to MP3 on Mac OS X with TuneClone Audio Converter for Mac.
Step 1. Download TuneClone Audio Converter for Mac from http://mac.tuneclone.com and run it.
Note: During the startup, a virtual CD burner will be installed, which will be used to convert iTunes music files. The authorization of administrator will be needed to install TuneClone virtual CD burner.
Step 2. Make settings in TuneClone Audio Converter for Mac
Go to top-left “TuneClone -> Preferences…” a window will appear as below:
Step 3. Make settings in iTunes (iTunes 9.0.1)
Create a new playlist and add the songs you are going to convert.
Right click the playlist you just created and choose “Burn Playlist to Disc”. Or you can click the “Burn Disc” button at the bottom right corner of iTunes interface.
In the pop-up dialog of “Burn Settings”, you can make settings as highlighted below:
Note: You need to tick the “Include CD Text” option to perserve the music metadata such as name, artist, album names.
Step 4. Start to burn
Click the “Burn” button to start burning. After the burning get started, TuneClone will automatically convert the iTunes music to MP3 files. You can open the TuneClone manager screen to check out the burning status.
Tip: You can easily get the output MP3 files on your Mac machine by clicking the “Reveal in Finder” button on the manager screen.
Note: The most important step is to choose the CD burner. Then the software can convert music files automatically. It is especially easy when you want to batch convert lots of files.
TuneClone Audio Converter for Mac is available
TuneClone Audio Converter for Mac 1.0.0 was released on September 24th, 2009!
You can know about the detailed info of TuneClone Audio Converter for Mac from http://mac.tuneclone.com/ and download its first version via this link: http://mac.tuneclone.com/tuneclone-mac.dmg
Below are key features of TuneClone Audio Converter for Mac 1.0.0:
1. Let you remove DRM from iTunes purchased music files with a few clicks by using a virtual CD burning approach.
2. Converted DRM free music files can be played wi Media Player or MP3 players including PSP, Cell Phone, Pocket PC, PDA, Creative Zen, etc.
3. Allow you to convert M4P to MP3, convert M4A to MP3, convert AAC to MP3 on Mac.
4. Help you batch convert music collections at high speed.
5. Converted songs have NO DRM restriction anymore.
6. Preserves ID3 tags for artist, album, title names, artworks, etc.
7. Easy to install and use with a very handy and clear user interface.
8. Compared with using real CD-R or CD-RW disc, TuneClone’s virtual CD burning uses the maximum writing speed and your music files can be converted at a very high speed.
9. Specially designed for Mac OS X users and fully compatible with the latest Snow Leopard.
10. Full support for iTunes 9.0.1.
How to Transfer iTunes M4P M4A AAC to Zune HD?
This guide is going to show you how to remove DRM protection from iTunes music, convert DRM protected iTunes M4P to MP3, M4A to MP3, AAC to MP3 and transfer iTunes music to Zune HD. First, let’s take a look at the video/audio formats Zune HD accepts:
Video Support:
WMV
MPEG-4 (MP4/M4V) (.mp4) Part 2 video
H.264 video
DVR-MS
Audio Support:
Windows Media? Audio Standard (WMA) (.wma)
WMA Lossless
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) (.mp4, .m4a, .m4b, .mov): .m4a and .m4b files without FairPlay DRM
MP3 (.mp3)
So, if you want to play DRM protected iTunes M4P, M4A, AAC music on your Zune HD, you just need to use TuneClone Audio Converter to convert the iTunes music to MP3 format and then transfer the output MP3 to your Zune HD.
Now let’s take a look at how it performs to convert the iTunes music to MP3 format for Zune HD using TuneClone Audio Converter:
1. Create a new playlist in iTunes.
2. Add the iTunes songs to the playlist.
3. Launch TuneClone Audio Converter. Click the “Settings” tab. In the pop-up window, you can specify output folder, output file name format, output format, etc for the output files. Note: You can check whether TuneClone virtual CD drive is successfully installed and where it is installed at the bottom left corner of the interface.
4. Switch to iTunes. In iTunes, select the playlist you just created and click the “Burn Disc” button.
5. In the pop-up window of “Burn Settings”, select “TuneClon Virtual_CD-RW” from the “CD Burner” drop-down list, click the radio button next to “Audio CD” and tick “Include CD Text” option. Click “Burn” to start burning.
6. Upon the completion of burning the disc and encoding the music, you can open the TuneClone manager screen to show all the converted music files. To locate the output folder, simply click the “Folder” tab on the interface.
7. After you get the output music files, connect your Zune HD to computer via the USB cable, drag and drop the converted MP3 files to the Zune Software, then you can sync the iTunes M4P music to Zune HD with the help of Zune Software at ease.
Extracted from http://www.tuneclone.com/transfer-itunes-music-to-zune-hd.php
Easy to use DRM removal and conversion of iTunes music for use on other players
Source from: http://www.howtogeek.com/reviews/tuneclone/
Geek Ranking:
The Good:
Easy to use DRM removal and conversion of iTunes music for use on other players
The Bad:
More features for specific players and extra format conversions would be welcome
| Installation: | 8 / 10 |
| Ease of Use: | 8 / 10 |
| Features: | 7 / 10 |
| Performance: | 8 / 10 |
| Product Support: | 7 / 10 |
Overview
TuneClone Audio Converter is a very easy to use software that convert iTunes M4P, WMA music files to plain MP3, easy to install, and easy to use via a simple user interface. If you’ve purchased a lot of music from iTunes, Yahoo Music or other online music stores back when DRM was included on everything, TuneClone allows you to convert them to other formats and remove the DRM protection so you can play them on all of your portable audio devices. TuneClone Audio Converter doesn’t bypass the DRM, it simulates the burning, ripping and encoding process by installing a virtual CD burner.
Installation
During installation you get a message advising you may be a warning from Windows but go ahead and install it anyway. When we installed this on Windows 7 x64 there was no message but did have one on our 32-bit system.
Features – 8
I nicely laid out interface that is easy to use allowing easy management of music.
TuneClone will show up as a virtual CD-R drive in My Computer.
Convert audio to MP3, WAV, or WMA at different bit rates.
The ID3 information of the files will be kept intact from the original music file.
Ease of Use
After installation on the main interface click on the button to “Open the media player software”.
Once iTunes opens up you will get a message about inserting a blank disc. This is talking about the virtual drive of TuneClone.
You will need to go into Burn Settings and set the drive to the Virtual burner form TuneClone and select your preferred settings and click on Burn.
While the files are encoded into TuneClone there will be a small progress screen on the corner of the screen.
With the Trail version you are only allowed three minutes per track but it gives you enough options to decide if you want to purchase a full license.
The converted files are put into My Music and the TuneClone folder.
Performance
We tested this on a Dell desktop with an Intel Core2 Duo processor and 3GB of RAM and conversions were very smooth. There will be a bit of a spike in the CPU during conversion but memory usage is low. Conversion times will vary depending on the amount of music you are converting but overall one album takes a couple minutes.
Conclusion
I loaded up five albums that I bought from iTunes a few years ago, converted them to MP3 and stuck them on a Creative Zen and they played with no problems. There seemed to be no loss in audio quality and the meta data. The application is easy to use and does a great job removing DRM and converting songs to be played on different portable audio players. One thing that I would like to see is direct support for audio devices built into the user interface allowing you to plug in say a Zune or Zen and transfer the files directly from the app. As it is now though, it does a good job and will save you a lot of hassle if you have a large amount of DRM protected music.
It works with XP, Vista, and we were able to run it fine on Windows 7. You can use the trial version for as long as you want but the restriction is only 3 minutes of the song will be converted. To remove that restriction you will need to purchase a full license for $34.95.
Rating
- Installation: 8
- Ease of Use: 8
- Features: 7
- Performance: 8
- Product Support: 7
M4P converter – convert protected AAC to MP3 WAV WMA
Are you annoyed by iTunes DRM? Do you want to remove it because you want to play the iTunes music on non-Apple MP3 players like PSP, Zune, Creative Zen, BlackBerry, PS3, iriver, Walkman, mobile phone MP3 player, etc, use it as background music in a home video, or anything else that DRM limits it to do? Many people know you can remove the DRM from iTunes music by simply burning the song to a CD, and ripping it back over, losing very little quality (if settings are correct):
1. Insert a CD-R or CD-RW disc into your CD-ROM drive.
2. Burn your playlist to make an audio CD. You cannot select the “MP3 CD” option since it requires the DRM protected iTunes music files be converted to unprotected MP3, WMA or WAV files.
3. After the audio CD is successfully burned, insert the disc into your CD-ROM drive again. Then you can use iTunes to import the music tracks on the burned disc as MP3, WMA or WAV files.
And the method I am going to introduce does the same exact thing but you will not need a CD-RW disc, a CD ROM drive, or even need to burn anything! It’s that simple. Let’s show you how to perform this.
We are going to be using a program called TuneClone M4P Converter. TuneClone M4P Converter is basically a program that acts as a virtual CD drive that allows you “burn” MP3 from iTunes and “rip” it. TuneClone “lies” to your computer saying that you have a CD-RW drive that it will burn to (like Alchohol 120%). You can use this to move your library of M4P DRM protected music to the MP3 format that you can use on any player out there worth its salt. This is a useful tool for anyone looking to break their relationship with the iPod. The best part is that it maintains all of the music file’s metadata. Below is the step by step tutorial that shows how it works:
- Create a new playlist in iTunes.
- Add the protected songs to your playlist. Since iTunes burns the protected music with TuneClone virtual CD drive, there is no limit as to music length so long as you have enough hard drive space.
- Launch TuneClone M4P Converter. Click the “Settings” tab. In the pop-up window, you can specify output folder, output file name format, output format (WMA, MP3, WAV), etc for the output files. Note: You can check whether TuneClone virtual CD drive is successfully installed and where it is installed in the bottom left corner of the interface.
- In iTunes, click the “Burn Disc” button.
- In the pop-up window of “Burn Settings”, select “TuneClon Virtual_CD-RW” from the “CD Burner” drop-down list, click the radio button next to “Audio CD” and tick “Include CD Text” option. Click “Burn” to start burning.
- Upon the completion of burning the disc and encoding the music, you can open the TuneClone manager screen to show all the converted music files. To locate the output folder, simply click the “Folder” tab on the interface.
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AAC to MP3 Converter – Convert iTunes AAC M4A M4P to MP3
Author: terry007
AAC to MP3 Converter is a DRM removal for converting iTunes to MP3, AAC to MP3, M4A to MP3, M4P to MP3 for playback on non-Apple MP3/MP4 players and mobile phone players including Zune, PSP, PS3, BlackBerry, Creative Zen, iriver, Walkman, Pocket PC, Xbox, Nokia, LG, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Google Phone, etc.
Q: Why Use AAC to MP3 converter?
A: When you purchase music from iTunes Store, they are actually DRM protected content and you will not be able to play the protected AAC (M4P) files on MP3 players which do not support their formats. In such case, the option is to Burn those tracks to a CD and then Rip them once again to the computer hard drive wherein the DRM will be removed and you will get the tracks in (DRM free) MP3 format. After this you will be able to transfer them to a memory card or to MP3/MP4 players.
In case you have purchased a great amount of music from iTunes Store, you can go ahead and use AAC to MP3 Converter which acts as a Virtual CD-ROM drive on your PC, and lets you remove the DRM element without having to waste actual CD’s.
How to: Convert iTunes AAC M4A M4P to MP3 Using AAC to MP3 Converter?
Step 1. Create a new playlist in iTunes and add the iTunes/AAC/M4A/M4P songs to the playlist.
Step 2. Download and install AAC to MP3 Converter. Run it. In the main interface, click the “Settings” button. In the pop up window, you can choose the output folder, output file name format, output format (actually you can choose MP3, WMA or WAV), etc for the output files.
Step 3. Back to iTunes. Click the “Burn Disc” button. In the pop-up window of “Burn Settings”, select “TuneClon Virtual_CD-RW” from the “CD Burner” drop-down list, click the radio button next to “Audio CD” and tick “Include CD Text” option. Click “Burn” to start burning. Note: You can check whether TuneClone virtual CD drive is successfully installed and where it is installed in the bottom left corner of the TuneClone interface.
Step 4. Upon the completion of burning the disc and encoding the music, you can open the TuneClone manager screen to show all the converted music files. To locate the output folder, simply click the “Folder” tab on the interface.
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