M4P-MP3 Converters?

[omgitznpv]

Re: M4P-MP3 Converters?

If you're worried about music quality why would you buy from iTunes in the first place?

I'm not really worried about music quality. If it's terrible quality, then of course, I wouldn't want it, but I don't mind quality that is a tad worse. Like I stated, I bought it for the organization :\

[bluguerrilla]

Re: M4P-MP3 Converters?

It does. Bitrate is huge and switching between two compressed formats, or even the same compressed format, even if you boost the bitrate UP, will lose quality. You may not notice it, but people like me do, even amongst bitrates. I had a 128kbps version of Ryu's AGEHA a while ago, and I recently found a 320kbps version. I didn't even recognize that they were the same song.

I don't even know what bitrate m4p is... 128 kbps?

I mean, I notice the difference between 128 and 196 in mp3s, the tinny-ness hurts me.

Either way, this (among many other reasons) is why I hate iTunes...

[nforcer06164]

Re: M4P-MP3 Converters?

iTunes AAC/m4p files are coded at 128kbps, but that codec supposedly has a quality at that bitrate equivalent to a 160kbps mp3 file.

If you really need to remove DRM from your m4p files, the easiest way with minimal cost and not doing anything particularly illegal is to burn those files as cda files to a CD-RW, rip the CD in the mp3 format, and erase the disc and burn another set of songs. If I come across a digital recoder, I'll let you know.