What is M4P format music file? How to play it anywhere?

What is M4P files?

File in .M4P format are "Protected AAC File". Songs purchased via iTunes are in the protected m4p format.

AAC is the audio layer from the follow-on format to MP3 (see .M4A extension). The .M4P extension is AAC purchased from Apple's Music Store (iTune) and is protected by a Digital Rights Management scheme.

How to play M4P music files?

If they're DRM protected, it probably goes to reason that the only DRM M4P music player is... iTunes.

If you've got an iPod, you go and buy music but then your machines dies, or have many many computers and devices you listen to music on, or maybe sometimes you use an operating system not supported by iTunes, how can you listen to your purchased music? Well, usually you can't- why? Because the songs you purchased are DRM protected, that means you can only listen to them on specific computers and devices. For most folks the limits of a few computers or devices are fine, but for the gadget geek- nope, we have too many computers and devices. It would be like buying a DVD but only being able to watch it in some rooms, or only some TVs.

So you need to remove DRM protections from these music files, to play on any of your computers or devices. Share DRM Music will do the job for you. You could download it and free try, the trial version of it only have the limitiation that converting 3 minutes of each music files. If you bought the full version, the limitation will unlocked.

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M4P to MP3 Converter

There are mainly two method to convert DRM protect m4p to mp3 or wav:

First is: Burn a CD (or use a CD-RW so you can reuse it). Then rip the files to whatever format you like: mp3, wma, whatever.

Second is: Recording from you soundcard while playing the m4p music you want to convert, then encode to mp3, wam, whatever.

Share DRM Music is the automatic version of the first method, and it no need any CD or CDRW. Share DRM Music use a virtual CD Burner to finish the whole procedure of Burning / Ripping / Encoding. It's even faster than real CD buring, and with CD quality.

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After you have converted DRM M4P files to MP3, WAV or unprotected WMA, you could play the music file on any computers or music devices you want.

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