Hello,
Tile says it all. I want to covert my Itunes to mp3s, I’ve looked on the internet and the only method seems to be to burn them onto a disk. I don’t have any disks. So does anybody know/ can provide a link to a way to convert them?
thanks 
iTunes Music Store intentionally sets up their files so that you can’t do that. The way to get around it is to burn them and re-rip them. Sorry if you don’t have CDs, they are cheap, go buy some.
thanks, but would this work with a memory stick?
Are you trying “To decrypt your iTunes protected AAC files so that they can be played on operating systems for which no official version of iTunes exists, such as Linux.” If so, check out http://hymn-project.org/. If you’re just trying to convert a file from one kind to another, check out http://media-convert.com/.
Aparently the hymn ones doen’t work with 6+ (I have seven) So thats not an option 
Dam apple
No. The reason you have to burn it is to create a CD that a boombox type CD player would recognize, a music CD not a computer CD. You then rip it as if it were a music CD and not a computer CD.
It’s not Apple’s fault. Steve Jobs has always been for creating restriction free paid downloads. The restricted file types were created to appease the record companies so that they would make deals with apple.
Well I kinda feel that I bought the song, so i want to play it on what I want
When you bought the song, you bought it under the rules and conditions set forth by apple and the iTunes music store.
An easy loophole is presented by the fact that you can burn the files as an audio CD and re-import them.
Why should we help you any further in giving you ways to illegally break the contract that you made with apple?
When you signed up for an itunes music store account and when you clicked agree to the terms of service when you downloaded itunes you agreed to the terms of purchase, you have a contract with apple.
Oh you do, do you? And more than five of those places as well? Yeah what a hassle. I just tried JHymn also and it doesn’t work for me either.
Apple has now started (or is about to start) selling songs with no DRM on them! It think it’s only one (large) record label to start, but the songs will come in a higher-quality file format, and be $1.29 each. I think they will also have a deal where you can upgrade music you’ve already bought to this format for about $.30 per song. Yay! Apple pioneers what I hope will be the future of online music! I have a dozen or so albums’ worth of music from iTunes, and usually it’s fine on my iPod but I don’t want to have to keep track of what few computers are authorized to play them. Also I have blank CDs, but don’t want to use them for something like that…
true, but I’m just using a gift vouter so its not realy a big deal
Regardless to use the voucher you had to download iTunes and agree to their terms of service. You had to create an account and agree to their terms of service. Either way you’ve made a contract with apple. Yeah it sucks that they put restrictions on their downloads, but you did agree to these restrictions so to complain about them or to say “I bought it I should be able to do what I want with it” is a moot.
This is what I have always used. It’s really user friendly, but it is a trial version there so it only lasts for 30 days or something like that. All you do is go into your My Music folder (for windows, or for Mac wherever your iTunes music folder is) and find the song you want to convert. Then click convert and it spits it out onto your desktop or a folder that you specify.
shame, thanks anyway 
edit: I wonder how long it would take me to read all the small print?
I have like 4000 songs on Mp3 cds, and I want to upload them into Itunes. Does anybody know how I can do this? When I put the cd in the drive “Import using Itunes” dosen’t come up.
More info and possibly another alternative:
“Import using iTunes” is only for ripping Audio CDs.
If they are CDs of MP3 files you don’t have to import them, you just have to copy them over to your Hard Drive.
An easy way to do this is to set the iTunes preferences to “Copy files to the iTunes Music folder when adding to library”. It’s a check box listed under Advanced.
Then open the CD, select all the MP3 and open them with iTunes. They’ll all copy into the iTunes music folder and show up in the iTunes library.
Thanks! This worked, now my library of music is huge. I now love you…
You are absolutely right there. I feel that all suckers who bought the defective by design iTunes songs should be made to suffer financially for their stupidity. Force them to buy the songs again in a format that will play on their non-Apple MP3 player. That’s what they deserve for being such sheep. Maybe next time they’ll think about the consequences of their actions when they do the right thing and purchase the digital music files that they listen to.
Unfortunately it’s Windows-only. Good luck to you Windows users! (I’m about to finally install Parallels and Windows XP)
Unfortunately nothing really new there, at least for Mac users. I didn’t read the Windows part.
Not sure what you mean. We did purchase the digital music files we listen to, at least the iTunes ones. Should we have bought CDs? Probably, but sometimes they’re hard to find, or you don’t want the whole album.
Or did we not purchase the files? Just a (limited) license to use them? But this is the same for a CD as well, I guess. Just not DRMed. I prefer CDs, BTW. They make better backups also.
What about people who sign up for “unlimited downloads” and pay a monthly fee for Napster or similar, and only have access to their files as long as they keep paying the monthly fee? I never bought into that, though it’s probably a good system if you like to constantly sample new music.
I just want fair use. I’m not asking for anything from Apple, I’m willing to do the work myself.
That was just an anti DRM rant. ThisGuyIKnow was giving the industry line that says you cannot convert the DRMed files to something useful. Can’t use the files for fair use. Yadda yadda.
My cynical response being that the fools who bought in to that defective by design system deserve the suffering and lack of freedom they’ll have to endure. Maybe it will teach them that the music industry just wants to screw them. Great way to get your paying customers to want to give you a big FU.
DRMed files are suitable for rented content and services like Napster. That’s the way you manage a service like that and make such a service possible. It makes it clear you are not buying anything long term. I fully support and encourage DRM for that.
If you buy files with DRM and expect to be able to play them 10 years from now you are going to be disappointed. DRMed files are not suitable for content you buy and expect to be able to use freely and continue to use in the future.