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Basically, when you buy music from iTunes, it comes with a copyright protection called DRM. These DRM-protected songs are locked so that they only work with Apple MP3 players. That means that if you bought a Microsoft Zune, you cannot use iTunes music.
So, what is the solution? You have to burn a CD. When you do this, the DRM is removed (because the music is converted to a non-DRM-compatible media). After you burn the CD, you can rip it to your PC as an MP3 file which no longer has DRM.
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 (DRM free) MP3.
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 files.
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 have purchased lots of music from iTunes Store and want to play your music with other mobile devices, such as MP3 Player, MP4 Player, PSP, Mobile Phone? TuneClone Audio Converter for Mac comes to the rescue! It is the 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.
Note: During the startup, a virtual CD burner will be installed, which will be used to convert iTunes music files. The administrator authorization will be needed to install TuneClone virtual CD burner.
Step 2. Open iTunes and burn playlist to TuneClone virtual CD writer
Zune is a product line of portable media players manufactured by Microsoft. The line also includes Zune software and the Zune Marketplace services sold by Microsoft, which provide online music, video, and podcast downloads. Zune players come in two variants, one hard-drive based and the other flash-memory based. Both play music, videos, and podcasts, display images, and receive (but not record) FM radio. You can share files wirelessly with other Zunes and via USB with Xbox 360s and Windows PCs. Any Zune can also be synced wirelessly with a Windows PC.
The following guide will show you how to convert DVD to Zune compatible video/audio format so that you will be able to watch DVD movies on Zune, Zune HD. Let's take a look at video/audio formats Zune HD supports first:
Video Support:
WMV
MPEG-4 (MP4/M4V) (.mp4) Part 2 video
H.264 video
DVR-MS
Audio Support:
Windows Media? Audio Standard (WMA) (.wma)
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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:
Music purchased from Rhapsody is under DRM protection, which stops customers from playing the downloaded music with other incompatible devices like Apple iPod and Microsoft Zune. If you don't continue to pay, you won't keep the music when the subscription expires. As we all know, iPod is one of the most popular and successful MP3 players. iPod owners can purchase various music songs from iTunes Store and listen to them with their iPods. However, if you prefer Rhapsody and find some songs in Rhapsody that are unavailable in iTunes store, yet you do want to enjoy these songs witn your new iPod, you are meeting the headache of Naspter being incompatible with iPod. So the following tutorial should be the solution.
Matroska's MKV "universal" container is described by its developers as "the extensible open standard Audio/Video Container". This translates to a multimedia Container designed to support practically any type of video or audio stream you might care to use. MKV stands for Matroska Video. The project itself is simply called Matroska.
The following MKV video conversion guide is going to show you how to convert MKV to AVI, convert MKV to MP4 and convert MKV to WMV for your iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, BlackBerry and a lot more portable players.
Apple iPod accepts MP4 format, so you just need a converter that will go from DVD to MP4 if you want to watch DVD movies on your iPod. After you get the output iPod compatible MPEG-4 videos converted from DVD's, drag them to your iPod with the sync of iTunes. Below is the step by step tutorial showing how to convert DVD to iPod touch, iPod nano and iPod classic.
1. Download Clone2Go DVD to iPod Converter. Install and run it.
2. Click the "Open DVD" button to load the DVD movie. Alternatively, you can click "File -> Open DVD..." to import the DVD disc. After the DVD is imported, there will be a list of DVD titles showing in the program. Note: If your DVD movie is saved as a folder in your computer hard drive, you need to click the "Add Video" button to locate and import the movie.
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