Are you annoyed by iTunes DRM?
Do you want to strip it off because you want to play the iTunes music on other mobile devices other than iPod and iPhone, use it as background music in a home video, or anything else that DRM limits it to do? Many people know you can strip off the DRM off iTunes music by simply burning the song to a CD, and ripping it back over, losing very little quality(if settings are correct):
strong>1. /strong> Insert a CD-R or CD-RW disc into your CD-ROM drive. You’d better use CD-RW disc as it can be used for more than once.
strong>2. /strong> Burn your playlist to make an audio CD. You cannot select the em>MP3 CD /em> option since it requires the encrypted iTunes music files be converted to unprotected MP3 files.
strong>3. /strong> 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 to MP3 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 a href=”http://www.tuneclone.com”> strong>TuneClone /strong> /a>. TuneClone 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:
strong>1. /strong> Download TuneClone from a title=”TuneClone iTunes 8 to MP3 Converter” href=”http://www.tuneclone.com/tuneclone_setup.exe”>http://www.tuneclone.com /a> and install it.
TuneClone is fully compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista. A virtual CD Burner will be installed. This virtual CD-RW will be used to convert music files.
strong>2. /strong> Make settings at TuneClone
img src=”http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/2894528182_098dee4dd3_o.jpg” alt=”Convert protected AAC/M4P to MP3″ />
Click the em>Settings /em> button at TuneClone. In the pop-up window, you can specify the em>output folder /em>, em>output filenames /em>, em>output format /em>, etc. for the output files.
strong>Note: /strong> Apart from MP3, TuneClone also allows you to convert iTunes M4P to WAV and unprotected WMA.
strong>Tip: /strong> You can get the output protection removed music folder by clicking the em>Folder /em> button after the whole process.
strong>3. /strong> Make settings at iTunes(iTunes 8)
Create a playlist, and then add the files you want to convert into the playlist.
img title=”iTunes 8 playlist to MP3″ src=”http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3050/2893683885_a8de298a12_o.jpg” alt=”Create a new playlist in iTunes 8″/>
After you have created the playlist ready to be burnt, click the em>Burn Disc /em> in the bottom right of iTunes.
In the pop up window of em>Burn Settings /em>, make the settings as highlighted below:
img title=”make burn settings at iTunes 8″ src=”http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3174/2894525846_3e89f5735b_o.jpg” alt=”Burn Settings at iTunes 8″ />
strong>4. /strong> Start to burn
Click the em>Burn /em> button to start burning.
After the burning gets 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.
img src=”http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3110/2894528178_9783fd5c45_o.jpg” alt=”TuneClone Burning” />
The most important step is to choose the CD burner. Then the software can convert the music files automatically. It is exceedingly easy when you want to batch convert lots of files.
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