Itunes and Mp4

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:16 pm

So what's the deal with this protected MP4 stuff? I have never bought music online so this is rather new to me. My brother has this bunch of music he bought from the itunes store and he wants to move it to his PSP. No can do, as it's 'protected', much like the California condor. How does one change the format to Mp3?

I looked around and all that seems to work is to burn onto a music CD and then rip into Mp3 format. Is there another way?

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(honest, I tried to convince him that itunes sucks monkey balls, but NOooooooo!!)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:56 pm

http://hymn-project.org/

hygraed · Post by **hygraed** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:05 am

This is why purchasing music online is inferior to purchasing CDs in nearly every way.

User: You know, I think I'd like to listen to this on my PSP AND my computer!

DRM: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Vitriola · Post by **Vitriola** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 1:35 pm

When I asked the same question awhile back, my research only garnered me a couple little programs you could buy that would do it. I'm sure you could get one of these for free somehow.

I have friends who use AOL that always send me mp4s, and I basically just go look whatever it is they sent me up on Soulseek and download it.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 2:44 pm

iTunes DRM stripper
http://hymn-project.org/download.php

Follow instructions on page

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:39 pm

That's fantastic. So we've got the Chinese war3z community lurking here, as well? Holla atcha fellas! Anyway, yeah, the link Mr. FUCKING ANNONAMOUS Broken English put down will probably work (haven't worked) or you can try Sound Taxi. Really, though, unless there's some way of keeping the file the same and just stripping the DRM from it (which I don't believe there is) any program you use will worsen the audio quality as iTunes stores are encoded at 128Kbps AAC (a criminally low bitrate for the #1 online music store) and, thus, converting htem to MP3 will cause the already lossilly-compressed file to be losilly compressed... again. Transcoding is never fun and should be avoided if all possible, but yeah, there's not much you can do about files that have DRM on them. Anyway, if you don't wanna waste a CDR on the .m4P files, you could always download Demontools and burn an image file of the disc you would burn using your normal burning program and mount it as a drive; iTunes (or whatever he'd use) won't know the difference.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 6:55 pm

Sound Taxi Pro
http://www.musthavesoft.com/shareware/A ... o-3.1.html

Daemon Tools
http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/downloa ... ry&catid=5

Winamp/Foobar2000 have relevant (unknown) plugins to transcode files