You cannot be playback iTunes DRM protection M4P music files on iPod, Zune, PSP, Archos, Creative Zen, San Disk sansa, and any other MP3/MP4 music players, as well as for mobile phones such as Sony Erricssion, Nokia Nseries, BlackBerry, Samsung, LG, Motorola, and many more. However, you can use the following methods to remove DRM protection from M4P files: 1. You can burn the protected music files to CD-R or CD-RW disc to make an audio CD within iTunes. 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. 2. You can convert m4p to mp3 using recording method. Here, would like to introduce NoteCable, which is a powerful, yet simple audio converting tool to bypass DRM control with a virtual audio recording method. It records any copy-protected music and audio book files (M4P, WMA, AA and M4B) as they are being played and saves the recordings as unprotected audio files (MP3, WMA or WAV) you can enjoy anywhere. 3. The most convenient and time-saving method is using virtual burning software, such as TunePat, NoteBurner, etc. Here, taking TunePat as example, it introduces a smart way of converting m4p file to mp3 utilizing virtual burning technology. TunePat works as a CD burner emulator which automatically converts the music you have purchased online as you are burning it to a virtual CD. Since the virtual CD emulates your computer RAM and hard disk as erasable CD-RW drive (Virtual CD-RW), the converting speed is 10 times faster than any other programs which use recording as one of the core converting tricks. TunePat M4P Converter supports music from iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, Zune, Yahoo Music, Sony Connect, MusicMatch, MSNMusic, MusicLoad, MTV / urge, MusicNow, BuyMusic, AOL Music, Virgin Digital, Beon Music, Peer Impact, iMusica, Wal-Mart, AOL MusicNow, Audible, connect-europe, akuma, Listen JP, ongen, hmv, Bigpond Music, Soundbuzz, digirama, imusica, cdigix, cingular mMode, puretracks, metro tunes, fnac. 1) Download and install TunePat M4P Converter System required: * 32- bit Windows XP, Vista * 256 megabytes (MB) or higher of RAM * 1GB of available hard disc drive space or more * Monitor with 1024x768 pixels or higher resolution 2) Run TunePat M4P Converter, and set mp3 as the output format. Click Settings button on the top right window, and the Options window pops up. Here, you can browse to choose a file folder for storing the converted songs, choose mp3 as output format, and check the ID3Tag options. 3) Click "Open media player software" button to open iTunes. Create a new playlist; add music which you would like to burn to the playlist; click Burn Disc button at the bottom right. * Choose TunePat Virtual_CD_RW as the CD burner * Select Audio CD as Disc Format * Check the "Include CD Text" option Click Burn button, iTunes will start burning. After a few seconds, TunePat will start encoding the files to mp3. Note: Audiobooks usually are large audio file with the playtime up to 2-3 hours. In this case, TunePat M4P Converter will convert the audiobook into several separated MP3 files. After the iTunes m4p files are converted to mp3, you can transfer the mp3 files to your media player, and enjoy them with any restriction.
prefer to use powerful Melodycan Ultra Video converter. This software converts avi (Windows Video), WMV (Windows Media Video) and m4v, mov, aac, ra, aa, mp4, snd, aif, m4p, rax, wav, ogg etc. MelodyCan can also convert video files of any kinds to commonly used iPod MPEG4 files (MP4) and DivX files (AVI, DIVX) for playback at home video devices. With MelodyCan you are not bound to your PC anymore and can play your movies on almost any device you have. MelodyCan can convert protected Windows Media Video (WMV) files to regular MPEG4 files (mp4) for iPod devices or convert WMV to DivX format for home DVD/DivX players. MelodyCan also can convert protected iTunes video files (M4V) to MPEG4 or DivX.
There are many M4P converters can convert iTunes music or the other DRM music to mp3,Such as:Noteburner, tunepat,tune4win,tune4mac etc. I prefer Noteburner, which uses a virtual burner, it converts so fast…It can also convert protected audio book and wma files.
Do it this method. I highly recommend it. http://www.laatedaa.com/2008/09/23/how-to-remove-strip-drm-off-itunes-music-tutorial/