I’ve bought some music on iTunes.
I just want to listen it on my portable iriver IFP.
But the .M4P is an unsupported format, so I’ve to convert it.
How can I do this?
The iTunes program don’t allow me, but somebody tell me that is possible.

Thank you.

I'll bite.

Burn the tracks to a CD, re-import them to mp3 and voila! you can transfer the files.

With transcoding loss of quality, ofcourse......

M4P are AAC in MP4 container with some DRM protection scheme on them, aren't they? I don't know much about this, or if this DRM really is breakable in any way as I haven't got any such files, but I've heard mentions of programs like JHymn. Anyways; quick googleing brings up this, and should be enough to start your research from.....

M4P is the extension for AAC files in the MPEG4 container protected by Apple's FairPlay DRM. Jon Johansen, the inventor of DeCSS, has released a couple of tools that allow the DRM to be removed.

jhymn works fine. use this, then transcode via foobar2000 and you don't have to burn those files as an audio-cd, which would be quite stupid...

or if you dont want to get into foobar2000, dbpoweramp music converter is an easy tool that will do the trick for you... after you jhymn your files first of course... if your up for it though, i too would recommend you give fb2k a shot.

Best thing would maybe be not to support anything that uses a DRM scheme..... DRM is a blunt attack on our consumers right, and it doesn't bring the artists any advantages, only the industry...... Well, well....

How can I set Foobar to read/Transcode the M4P files?
The better way could be decode the M4P files in wave and the encode the wave in the codec that I like...Foobar can do this?

use jhymn to crack the DRM - the resulting files will have the extension m4a. foobar can decode those files (e.g. play them). you don't have to decode them to WAV first, because foobar can do this directly: m4a >> mp3 for example, or another format like ogg.. load those cracked files into a foobar playlist then highlight them and choose "encode" or something like that. you are also able to configure which codec to use and what bitrate etc.

As started, you have to break the encryption first, and then you can import them into foobar. Ain't DRM wonderful?

Hi,

I have a question about iTunes but wasn't able to find a suited topic title so I'm using this topic. What I want to do is listen to all tracks of a album one by one without having to jump manually to the next track. I mean the 30 seconds test tracks, if one track is finished I want the next track to be started automatically. I tried very hard to achieve this since I hardly believed this functionality isn't available. If it can't be done, are there other shops where this can be done? Encoding format don't matter.

Regards,
stax

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?sto...1778&query=itms

Too bad the windows version don't support scripting (yet)

is it safe to log onto hymn with your email and password? oh and does this transcode at all or does it just remove DRM?

oh, and just curious doesn't this violate a TOS because isnt this software illegal?

Oh and another tip for original poster- whether you crack DRM or burn to cd-r and re-rip, I'd set LAME to 192k CBR rather than --aps. Results will be almost bit for bit identical, but in this case, it's a waste of a commandline.

@Busemann

thanks, I've wrapped up a AutoIt script sending keystrokes