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cherber
January 17th, 2007, 10:06 PM
Hey All,
I was wondering what an M4P file is. It is what was downloaded when I purchased a song from Itunes. But my MP3 player only plays MP3 files. Is there a way to convert this?
Thanks!
Cheri:cool:
zipulrich
January 17th, 2007, 10:32 PM
MP4 (mpeg layer 4) files are usually video, rather than audio, files.
Mazzy
February 9th, 2007, 12:07 PM
SoundTaxi's (http://www.soundtaxi.info) cool converter. U can buy audio from iTunes, napster, msn music and yahoo and then remove the drm and port the music over to my ipod! :D
cherber
February 14th, 2007, 03:49 PM
Thanks for the tip. When I get a new computer with something other than this crappy W2K, I will be able to use all the new gadgets out there these days. Oh well, when I win the lottery..
smurfy
February 14th, 2007, 07:07 PM
M4P is Apple Inc's proprietory mp3 format.
I use my iPod Nano/iTunes with Win2kPro. Are you having trouble doing so?
cherber
February 14th, 2007, 07:37 PM
No...I have an MP3 player, not an IPOD. I downloaded a song from Itunes and cannot copy it to my MP3 player. It is an Mp4 format. My problem these days is that I have MK2Pro and cannot upgrade anything including Internet Explorer 7 or that program that was suggested to me called SoundTaxi because I do not have WXP or higher. I am thinking noone supports any upgrades to W2K anymore. Am I right?
smurfy
February 15th, 2007, 03:04 AM
If you purchase music through iTunes, it is supplied in accordance with the licence agreement they have with the music publishers, in a proprietory (iPod & iTunes playable only) format (m4p) with Digital Rights Management (DRM) encoded.
Circumventing that DRM to play the songs on other media playing software or mp3 equipment is possible, but not necessarily legal.
Whilst some software titles are now being published for WinXP or later only, Win2K is still a supported O/S from Microsoft. What software publishers do in terms of operating system compatibility is up to them.