iTunes Music to MP3 Converter

NoteBurner Audio Converter can convert iTunes music to MP3 that can playback on any music player and PMPs. Basically, NoteBurner Audio Converter is able to convert all types of audio files that can be played by your media players, such as converting M4A to MP3 and WMA.

The common way to convert iTunes music to MP3 is burning iTunes playlist to MP3 CD. Then you rip the sound tracks from the CD, and you get MP3 songs out of iTunes music, AAC, DRM-encrypted M4P, whatever.

Using NoteBurner Audio Converter, you do not have to waste CD discs now. NoteBurner can simulate burning processes, burning and ripping, and save the converted iTunes music files on your computer in MP3, WMA or WAV format.

NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter

Convert m4p to mp3, wav and wma;
Convert protected wma to mp3, wav and wma;
Convert aac to mp3, wav and wma;
Convert m4b and m4b to mp3, wav and wma;
Convert audio book to mp3, wav and wma;
Also convert nearly all un-protected audio files to mp3, wav and wma.

Since NoteBurner Audio Converter uses virtual burning technology, media player like iTunes, Windows Media Player or Real Player, or audio editing program like Adobe Audition, is required to co-work with the program to complete the converting.

Most likely, the songs you purchase from iTunes Music Store are encrypted with Digital Rights Management. As the first and fastest conversion application of virtual burning, NoteBurner is being used and applauded world-widely for converting iTunes aac, m4b and m4p music to mp3, wma and wav.

Universal and iTunes Music

Tunes Music Store is the online music service run by Apple Inc. iTunes Music Store sells billions of songs every year, accounting for more than 80% of worldwide online digital music sales. iTunes Music Store encompasses several types of audio formats and variations, namely, AAC, M4A, M4B, M4P and Audible.

Steven P. Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive of Apple，faced a headache in the industry of digital music. The Universal Music Group notified Apple in 2007 that it will not renew its annual contract to sell music through iTunes.

Instead, Universal said that it would market music to Apple at will, a move that could allow Universal to remove its songs from the iTunes service on short notice if the two sides do not agree on pricing or other terms in the future. But if Apple were to decide not to carry Universal’s recordings, the music company would likely sustain a serious blow: sales of digital music through iTunes and other sources.

Jobs Talks about iTunes Music

Mr. Jobs noted that less than 3% of the music on the average iPod was bought from iTunes, leading music executives to speculate that the devices in many instances are used to store pirated songs. Apple has now sold more than 100 million iPods, and the device’s ties to iTunes have helped make Apple the leading seller of digital music by a wide margin. The iTunes service accounts for 76 percent of digital music sales.

iTunes popularized the sale of music online. Mr. Jobs’s stance on song pricing and the iPod’s lack of compatibility with music services other than iTunes have become points of contention. If Universal were to pull its catalog from iTunes, Mr. Jobs would lose access to record labels that collectively account for one out of every three new releases sold in the U.S.

At the same time, Mr. Jobs has refused the industry’s calls for Apple to license its proprietary copy restriction software to other manufacturers. Music executives want the software to be shared so that services other than iTunes can sell music that can be played on the iPod, and so that other devices can play songs bought from iTunes.

Fair-use iTunes and convert iTunes music to MP3

"I've purchased a bunch of music from iTunes and have enjoyed listening to them on my computer. But my portable music player is not an Apple iPod, so I can't take my songs with me. Is there any way I can get around this unfair restriction and convert my iTunes tracks to good old MP3?"

NoteBurner allows you to exercise your fair-use rights under copyright law. It allows you to free your iTunes Music Store purchases from their DRM restrictions with no sound quality loss. These songs can then be played outside of the iTunes environment, even on operating systems not supported by iTunes.