How to burn m4p files to audio CD?

gredodenda

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I bought music files from iTune Music store and their files are all in .m4p format. I don't what m4p is, but I could not open with media player nor burn it with Nero to make a audio CD so that I can listen in my car....totally new to itune thing...

Is their anyway to make .m4p to audio CD?? know any website that shows how??

thanks
 

Bootstrap

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M4P files contain audio in AAC format with Apple's content protection -- this is why you can't open it in other media players. You can burn it to a CD directly in iTunes. Just put the tracks you want into a playlist and then choose "Burn Playlist to Disk" from the File menu. Search for burning in the iTunes help for more details.
 

thecoolnessrune

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Through Itunes I would suppose. I've never used iTunes and probably never will. Their music is AAC. Also happens to be what Mpeg4 (.mp4) audio files use. It has seemed to me that Apple uses a proprietary form of AAC and puts it in a different Mpeg4 container to make it readable by nothing but Quicktime and iTunes. I downloaded a video file a couple days ago and while it could play the video, the audio was encoded in that Apple AAC crap and couldn't be played on anything but Quicktime. Perhaps someone else can give you a better answer but it seems to me that iTunes would be the only program that could successfully burn your files.

EDIT: Guess someone already did reply :p
 

Twsmit

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There are two types of Mp4 files. Regular AAC files (which are an alternative to Mp3) and then there are Apple DRM AAC files. For regular AAC pretty much any modern audio program will convert them, but for Apple DRM, you need to go into the iTunes options and set burn to Audio. You can't use an external program to burn Apple DRM AAC files.
 

Ostalstew

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M4P files is restricted by Apple's content protection so it's not surprised that you cannot open it on non-Apple media players. Generally speaking, you can use iTunes to burn MP3 to CD. But it doesn't support burning M4P to CD. You can find solution to convert M4P to MP3 and after that, you can use iTunes to burn Apple Music to CD.