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Angry Pirate
06-13-2006, 09:20 AM
Like the title says. I'm trying to convert m4a to mp3. I downloaded a few albums from my friends server and can't play them cause they're m4a. Do I need some kind of program, like winrar or something?
Grider
06-13-2006, 10:20 AM
.m4a is mpeg 4 as used by iTunes. iTunes will open them if you are authorized on the account that the file was sold to.

.m4a and .m4p is Protected MPEG4 from iTunes store. They are encrypted and I'm not about to tell you how to get into those seeing as how I don't like FPMITA prison. Look up DMCA and learn why it is not a good idea to tell people how to unencrypt them.
Angry Pirate
06-13-2006, 11:46 AM
Hmm, okay. Well I'm not gonna lie, I didn't understand that second part at all. But I was told something about imTOO audio converter.

You think that'll work? Or has anyone ever used it?
CPMaverick
06-13-2006, 12:30 PM
jHymn
Veedubtrek
06-13-2006, 03:03 PM
I didn't understand that second part at all

:rolllaugh :thumbsup:
Grider
06-13-2006, 04:46 PM
Hmm, okay. Well I'm not gonna lie, I didn't understand that second part at all. But I was told something about imTOO audio converter.

You think that'll work? Or has anyone ever used it?

Throw it in iTunes and see what happens. It might work, as (after reading the jHymn page) .m4a is regular AAC audio files that iTunes uses. I got confused, cause I for some reason thought those had .aac as a file extension. .m4a is the file extension for albums ripped by iTunes and compressed with AAC. .m4p has Digital Rights Management (DRM) in the file that limits who/what can play the file.

WinAmp might play it too, natively or with a mp4 plug in.

jHymn does not work on .m4p files that are attached to iTunes versions > 6.0

FPMITA = Federal Pound Me In The Ass Prison, it is from Office Space.
DMCA = Digital Millenium Copyright Act, the reason that showing someone how to do any number of reverse engineering type things will land your ass in court. For example removing the encryption from DRM protected files, or removed CSS (Content Scrambling System) from protected DVD movies so they will play on anything in any region.