Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Convert Protected Music Files to Plain MP3

If you have purchased songs from online stores and want to listen your music files on other mobile devices of yours, this guide may help.

There is not a directly way to convert these purchased music files because they are protected . However, there are some tools to help you convert protected music files to plain MP3. For example, some software record the music file via sound card while you playing file. You can also burn the music files to CD-R or CD-RW disc, then rip the CD tracks back. The second method keeps high audio CD quality, Here is another way which emulate a cd burning example to convert music files in iTunes with a software named "TuneClone Audio Converter".


It works under Windows XP with SP2. A virtual CD Burner will be installed. This virtual CD-RW will be used to convert music files.


  • Step2. Set the default CD Burner to "TuneClon CD-RW" at iTunes.
Click menu "Edit" and select menu item "Preferences..." and select "Advanced" Tab.



and select the "Burning" page. Change the "CD Burner" to "TuneClon CD-RW".



In order to keep the song's artist and title information, it should also check the "Include CD Text" option.

  • Step 3. Create a playlist then add the files you want to convert into the playlist.




  • Step 4. Click "Burn Disc" button at the right-bottom of the main screen of iTunes.



While the burning started, TuneClone will automatically convert the music file to MP3, WMA or WAV, you can open the manager screen to show all the converted music files.




The most import step is to choose the cd burner, then the software can convert automatically. It is especially easy when you want to batch convert lots of files.


34 comments:

SpyGuitar said...

Actually, burning to a CD and then ripping back to mp3 will not retain CD-quality audio. The music in its protected form is already far below CD quality - in the case of iTunes, it's been compressed to 128 kbps AAC, roughly analogous to 160 kbps mp3. By contrast (assuming 74 minutes=650 megabytes), CD-quality audio is approximately 1170 kbps. When that is compressed down to 128 kbps, data is lost. The compression algorithms used are designed such that _most_ of the audio data lost is outside the range of _most_ human hearing on _most_ playback systems... but not all. Anyway

When compressed files are burned back to CD, that lost data does not miraculously return - it's still gone. The music may be on CD, but it's not CD-quality. Ripping it again recompresses it, taking out even more data. As I said before, the majority of people may not hear the difference... but this method does adversely affect the quality.

From your description of how the virtual CD-burner works, I imagine that it is susceptible to the same problems.

There's no good method I know of to convert protected files to plain mp3 without any loss of quality. That's not to say these methods don't exist, just that I am not aware of them. The best thing I know to do is to use a service like eMusic, which provides plain, encryption/DRM-free mp3s, and to bite the bullet and buy the actual CD for those bands you really love.

For reference, some (admittedly very subjective) studies show that mp3 compression at 320 kbps is indistinguishable from the original.

Unknown said...

If saving as WAV files, this virtual CD burner method at least keeps the orginal quality of the source protected music file.

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TOMYPOST said...

This virtual cd burning method can also convert protected WMA files too.

Blazing Minds said...

Very interesting

ward said...

I tried this one and it's really good ! The sound quality almost has no loss.

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megasoft said...
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megasoft said...

There are a lot of converters now and I like TuneCab, it has many features such as audio conversion, video conversion, extract sound from video, remove DRM, download and convert video from YouTube etc. Easy to use all in one software! http://www.tunecab.com

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alice said...

ProtectedMusicConverter.net provides an easy way to convert protected music files, convert protected m4p, m4b, aac, m4a, wma, mp4 to mp3, etc.
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dudude said...

This article introduces 3 ways to convert DRM protected iTunes M4P to MP3. It helps to remove iTunes DRM so that you can play iTunes music on any MP3/MP4 player:

http://itunesm4ptomp3.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/how-to-convert-itunes-to-mp3/

Unknown said...

To remove DRM, there are many methods, such as CD burning and ripping and so on. and there are many tool,there is also a article presents you a easy way, such as Wondershare Media Converter to convert your protected files to DRM-free ones.

here is its info:
http://www.removing-drm.com/drm-tips/remove-drm-protection.html#146

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