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Apple iTunes songs- Convert to MP3

by chocolate_monkey36 Jul 19, 2007 2:19PM PDT

I've bought some songs from the iTunes store, but it wasn't until a few days ago that I realised (silly me) that they were protected- file extension m4p. The problem is, my mp3 player doesn't support them (Samsung K3). Is there a way I can convert these to mp3 without making any significant changes to my computer?
I'm a bit of a newbie, so step-by-step instructions would be really helpful, if that's possible.
Thanks in advance.

I am using windows xp sp2, with 512mb ram on a Toshiba Portege A100 notebook computer.
I cannot burn these onto CD and rip them into MP3 using iTunes, as they are protected.

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Forgot to mention...
by chocolate_monkey36 Jul 19, 2007 2:36PM PDT

My CD burner works perfectly fine- I can burn them to CD using windows explorer, but it doesn't create an 'audio' cd, just a cd with the actual m4p files on it. Therefore, I can't rip songs off the CD (and change them to MP3 or WMA that way).

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Unfortunately...
by John.Wilkinson Jul 20, 2007 1:28AM PDT

If the copy protection prevents you from using the iTunes burn-and-rip method there's not much you can do since stripping the copy protection is prohibited. Unfortunately that means you'll have to purchase the songs again, this time in a compatible music format, and hope it wasn't too costly of a lesson. Sad

Sorry.
John

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Samsung K3
by sweetaphibear Oct 18, 2007 2:42AM PDT

Do you know of any music company that will downlaod to a Samsung K3?

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Amazon's mp3 store
by ktreb Oct 20, 2007 2:35PM PDT

Since they're in mp3 format, will work on any player. Also eMusic and Audio Lunchbox. According to Samsung's website, Rhapsody and Napster work for it, but if you're outside of the United States you may need to seek alternatives.

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Did you burn cd within iTunes?
by ktreb Jul 20, 2007 7:19AM PDT

You'll need to do that. Just make sure your settings are for burning an audio cd. (Edit/preferences/advanced, etc - sorry, I can't remember off the top of my head - I'm still at work and no iTunes). Then you'll be able to rip the songs off of the cd.

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Rip
by miconstantine Jul 22, 2007 1:49AM PDT

I go to the purchased playlist in iTunes, and burned that to a CD, then import it to MP3 using iTunes. I do it all the time.

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You can try Sharedrmusic
by jennifer740 Aug 24, 2007 3:58PM PDT

I tried Sharedrmusic (http://www.sharedrmusic.com/). It worked perfectly on my computer. Sharedrmusic burns music onto a virtual CD-R. I cannot tell any difference between the original and converted music in terms of the music quality. And I would agree that Sharedrmusic is super faster and reliable

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