Unlocking Itunes

Pestoballs · Feb 28, 2006

I recently saved all of my friends music to 2 discs and reformatted his computer, and when i put the music back on the computer, it was in the protected itunes format so nothing plays at all. I think its M4p ( protected ) , Is there anyway i can get these files to regular mp3 or at least unlock them for itunes.

Vipersfate · Feb 28, 2006

Dont use Itunes?

Pestoballs · Feb 28, 2006

Well its a little too late for that, the kid has been using itunes and buying the music. It cannot play at all in any player.

bchur83 · Feb 28, 2006

At the very least, you will need ITunes. You can get a codec for winamp, but it still needs ITunes.

To unlock them, you will need to have him login to ITunes with his original login info.

Pestoballs · Feb 28, 2006

he is fully logged in, ill try a reinstall and login

zip22 · Feb 28, 2006

yeah, they just need to be authorized. it should ask when itunes tries to play them.

Beginner · Feb 28, 2006

guys, is there an alternative program besides itunes to use for an ipod.

schnikies79 · Feb 28, 2006

Beginner said:
guys, is there an alternative program besides itunes to use for an ipod.

there is but you can't use itunes locked files with it.

anapod explorer comes to mind..

check www.ilounge.com

they have reviews of pretty much everything ipod, including software.

SB911 · Feb 28, 2006

I haven't used it myself, but heres a no-itunes option http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home/

zip22 · Mar 1, 2006

yeah theres a bunch. theres a foobar plugin, a winamp plugin, mediamonkey, etc. theres a whole section on the ilounge forum devoted to third party programs. i think anapod has lost support and still costs something (i could be thinking of the wrong program, though). all the ones i mentioned are free.

http://forums.ilounge.com/forumdisplay.php?&forumid=16

you could also dabble with rockbox or ipod linux, both of which make the ipod drag and drop (no software required) and use filetree browsing (which may or may not be something you want).

asusradeon · Mar 6, 2006

your best bet is when he buys music burn them to a music cd then rip them back to the pc using media player therefore they arnt protected for whenever you want to use on a different pc or format it....

whoever · Mar 6, 2006

jhymn is good if you have iTunes pre 6.0

http://hymn-project.org/jhymndoc/

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