Converting Protected AAC audio file to MP3
 

I was wondering if there is anyway to convert protected AAC audio files that are downloaded off of itunes into mp3 some way. I already know you can burn a cd with it and then rip that same cd and youll get mp3, but I was wondering if there is another way. Thanks in advance.

Try this. AAC to MP3 converter it should do what you're looking for.

If you don't want to waste a CD, you could always burn to an image file, mount that image and then rip from it.

Alternatively, there are tools to strip the FairPlay protection, though I don't know much about those :/

Hey thanks for that, everything was working untill it started to try and convert it and asked me for my itunes password, and then wasnt able to connect with it. Dont know what happend there. If anyone, knows how to get and use the tools to strip the protection id appreciate it. Unless theres another program that will do it.

Any reason why to convert AAC to MP3? MP3 is inferior to AAC, so you will only loose quality this way. Better strip of the DRM part (a tool to do that was already mentioned).

I know AAC is all around better than mp3, but I dont have an ipod and I want to burn these to an mp3 cd, so I need it in MP3 form, how would I strip the DRM.

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Found another program that may be of some use to you.

Go here

jHymn worked up until iTunes 5.0. So far if you have that or a later version of iTunes, your only viable option is to burn a CD.

For some reason the protected files dont show up as if their not there lol. I guess it doesnt allow protected files to be converted. :(

As such an elaborate thing as jHymn was created I think we can safely assume that we won't find much in terms of programs that can do this until someone cracks Apples new (with itunes 6) protection.

So burning a copy on a cd-r(w) and then ripping it is the best way to do it for now.

I agree that burnning to CD and then re-ripping to MP3 is probably the way to go for now.

I am aware of an algorithm to transcode MP3 data into AAC while still in the compressed space. Such an algorithm avoids introducing additional quantizer error in the signal, and achieves pretty good results. I am not aware of a reverse algorithm -- to take an AAC compressed signal and convert directly to MP3. This is probably due to the facts that there isn't a whole lot of sense in investing energy deriving a process to conver from a superior codec to an inferior codec, and that MP3 only clearly specifies a decoder scheme, not an encoder.

Chances are, even if you had unprotected AAC files, any transcoding algorithm would simply decode the AAC data to a PCM stream, and then re-encode to MP3. This isn't a whole lot different than burning your AACs to CD and re-ripping them with your favorite MP3 encoder.

Any hints where I can find information about this algo?

Good god delete that shit and download it from somewhere that doesn't suck. Transcoding lossy to lossy formats is the greatest sin you can ever do, and shouldn't be too hard to find your music elsewhere for free without supporting vile DRM.

Converting Protected AAC audio file to MP3
 

To convert copy-protected aac audio files to mp3 you can also use MP3 Recorder Studio. If you need to convert several songs at once, choose to skip silence and to split files by silence.

lol, thanks. I posted this about 2 and a half years ago and you made your first post in this thread! I'm flattered :).

edit: what the fuck, didn't realize how old this was.

I have compared different converters and I recommend MelodyCan.
It converts music and movies, and also can remove drm protection. The converter is easy to install and use. ))

:). I haven't been on here in so long!! Got a random email saying someone replied to my thread. Ah 3 and a half years ago.... where did time go!