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.

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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.

Download TuneClone

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:

1. Create a new playlist in iTunes.
2. 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.
3. 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.
   
4. In iTunes, 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.

 

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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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How to convert DRM Nokia WMA music tracks to MP3

This guide is going to show you how to convert DRM protected WMA music tracks purchased from Nokia Music Store to (DRM free) MP3 format for sync to a lot more mobile players incompatible with Nokia Music formats with TuneClone Audio Converter. First, let’s take a look at something about music downloaded from Nokia Music Store:

All downloads from Nokia Music Store use DRM licences in the Windows Media format(WMDRM). They allow you to play a protected track and transfer it to a regsitered Comes With Music device an unlimited number of times. However, to burn tracks to a CD or to transfer tracks to an unregistered compatible mobile device, you must buy the tracks from Nokia Music Store.

The audio file format of the tracks in Nokia Music Store is Windows Media Auido (WMA) with a bit rate of 128 kb/s or 192 kb/s. The tracks are protected by Windows Media Digital Rights Management (WMDRM). Tracks encoded at 192 kb/s are bigger files than those encoded at 128 kb/s, but of better quality.

Now let’s take a look at how it performs to convert WMDRM Nokia music to MP3 using TuneClone Audio Converter:

Step 1. Make settings in TuneClone

Download and install TuneClone Audio Converter from http://www.tuneclone.com. Launch the program. In the TuneClone interface, make sure TuneClone virtual CD drive is successfully installed (at the bottom left corner). Click the “Settings” button. In the pop-up dialog, you can specify the output path, output filename format, output file format (choose MP3), etc for the output files.

Step 2. Burn “Audio CD” in Nokia Music

Launch the Nokia Music program.

Drag and drop the music files you want to convert to MP3 to the TuneClone virtual CD drive icon (in H) until the total length goes to 79 mins.

Click the “Burn CD” button to start the burning process. After the burning gets started, TuneClone will fetch the music from the “virtual CD” (in a temp folder) and encode it to MP3 format.

 

After the whole burning and encoding progress, you can get the output files by clicking the “Folder” button in the TuneClone interface. Now you can possess the music without any restriction.

The drawback is that, after the conversion, the ID3 tags info for the music tracks has been missing. I have to retrieve the information by dragging and dropping the original music to the TuneClone “Track Info” panel one by one.

How to play iTunes M4P on BlackBerry Tour 9630

“The BlackBerry Tour 9630 itself is really a mash-up of RIM’s BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Curve 8900 and BlackBerry Storm.”

One of the greatest new features I am starting to enjoy on my BlackBerry Tour is the ability for it to play multimedia files and specifically audio (music).

First let’s take a look at the video and audio formats supported by the newest BlackBerry Tour 9630:

Video format support: MPEG4 H.263, MPEG4 Part 2 Simple Profile, H.264 (encoding and decoding 30fps), WMV

Audio format support: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, WMA ProPlus

Basically, when you purchase music from iTunes Store, you actually get DRM protected content (in protected AAC or M4P format), which you will not be able to play on MP3/MP4 players and other non-Apple mobile players. In such case, the option is to burn those tracks to an audio CD and then rip them once again to your 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 your BlackBerry.

In case you have purchased a great amount of music from iTunes Store, you can go ahead and use TuneClone M4P 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, with the music ID3 tags info well preserved.

You can follow this tutorial to learn how to convert iTunes M4P to MP3 for your BlackBerry using TuneClone M4P to MP3 Converter:

How to Convert iTunes M4P to MP3?

After you get the output MP3 files, you can now begin to transfer them to your BlackBerry Tour:

1. Connect your BlackBerry to you computer via the USB cable.
2. If you have properly enabled your Blackberry as a Mass Storage Device, your Blackberry’s microSD card will show as a removable drive on your computer.
3. Double click on the Blackberry folder.
4. Double click on the music folder.
5. Copy your music files to your BlackBerry.
6. Disconnect your Blackberry from the USB cable and go to the “Multimedia” icon on you Blackberry. You need to disconnect when you use the Mass Storage device method as it disables direct access from the BlackBerry when connected to the PC via the USB cable.
7. Click on the Music icon.
8. Click on the Media Card folder.
9. Select your Music folder.
10. Select your Song.
11. Play and enjoy.

Done.