How to convert unprotected or protected WMA to MP3: convert wma to mp3 format
Windows Media Audio (WMA) is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. It’s a very common and preferable audio format on Windows PC. If you rip a CD with Windows Media Player, the default format is WMA too. And as the iTunes Music Store selling more and more M4P music, lots of online music providers offer other music formats for potential customers to choose. WMA protected by DRM is one of them. However, lots of portable digital devices nowadays prefer MP3 format, such as iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zen, and mobie phones. Even Microsoft Zune cannot support the standard Windows Media DRM system. So if you want to enjoy your WMA ripped or purchased, on anyone of these devices, you had better convert these unprotected or protected WMA files to MP3. This page will introduce you a very useful tool to do this job.
TunePat: Convert unprotected or protected WMA to MP3: convert wma to mp3 format
1. Download and install TunePat. This is a DRM protected audio and music conversion software which can convert protected DRM WMA, iTunes M4P Files, DRM protected AAC to plain Audio MP3, WAV, WMA files ready for use on any computers or mobile music devices such as iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, cell phone, MP3 player and car MP3 CD players, etc. It will install a virtual CD-RW in your PC. With this virtual drive, you can get MP3 from unprotected or protected WMA very easily.
2. Open TunePat, go to Settings and set MP3 as output format. If you like, you can enable ID3 tag info, use different bitrate, etc:
Note: This TunePat can convert iTunes music to WAV and WMA formats as well.
3. In iTunes, go to menu File > New Playlist, create a new play list to add the iTunes music you want to convert:
4. Turn to this new play list, click Burn Disc button on the bottom-right of iTunes, and set TunePat as CD burner in Burn Settings window:
5. TunePat will burn these iTunes files virtually, and after a while, you are able to check converted MP3s in TunePat. You can also right click on the music, and select Open File Location to find it in your hard drive:
Most of the tracks purchased from iTunes Store are protected by DRM (Digital Rights Management), which restricts the consumers from doing reasonable things with the music they own. Hence you need to convert those media files to a common audio format as MP3, no matter your songs are DRM protected or not. An MP3 file can be played on almost all media players or devices nowadays, so if you convert iTunes music to MP3 successfully, you will get the real freedom.
Inconvenience after buying iTunes Store music: convert wma to mp3 format
There are a lot of inconvenience if you don't find some method to escape from iTunes protection technology. For example, you may be not able to use iTunes DRMed songs in other portable digital devices, like PSP, Zune, Mobile Phone, even you're the legal owner of those songs and those devices; the maximun 5 authrized computers limitation may make you unable to access your songs in the future once they forget to deauthorize some computers. In a word, the DRM protection affects the freedom of legal owners.
Convert function in iTunes: convert wma to mp3 format
iTunes does support converting music. In the main pane, right click on the music, there's an option "Create XXX Version" (XXX stands for MP3 or AAC or other formats you set in Edit > Preference > Import Settings), but this only works for unprotected formats like WAV, WMA, AAC, MP3. If you want to convert songs bought from iTunes Store, iTunes will remind you "Protected files cannot be converted to other formats".
How to use iTunes to convert protected music: convert wma to mp3 format
Though iTunes cannot convert DRM music directly through "Create MP3 Version", it has burning feature integrated. Many consumers know how to burn protected songs to CD first then use iTunes to rip it later. However, this method wastes CDs and cannot assure the sound quality of converted MP3, since physical intermedia is used. Moreover, burning and ripping take a lot of invaluable time. Any method to solve such problem? TunePat is the answer.
TunePat Audio Converter utilizes virtual CD burning technology to simulate the burning and ripping process. With this advanced audio format converting mechanism, TunePat excellently converts iTunes music to MP3 or AAC, DRM protected WMA music to MP3 or unprotected WMA, as well as converting any other audio files to MP3, AAC, WMA, or WAV format. While converting audio files at fast speed, TunePat encodes MP3, WMA, AAC and WAV files with outstanding sound quality, and allows you to strip off the DRM so you can listen to your legally purchased songs however you'd like.
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