If you have moved from Apple's iPod to Microsoft's Zune, or you like to transfer Music songs bought from iTunes to Zune, you probably confront such problem: how to get itunes purchased music on Zune, is Zune compatible with iTunes? can I import itunes songs to zune software directly?

The answer is absolutely NO, iTunes purchased M4P files have DRM protection which prevent users from playing iTunes media with other incompatible players such as Zune, PSP, Creative Zen, Sony Walkman, Cell Phone, Blackberry Storm, etc.

So if you want to transfer itunes Music to Zune, you need a DRM Remover to convert iTunes Protected M4P files to MP3, then use Zune Software to sync regular MP3 Music to Zune

What You need is Daniusoft Media Converter Pro, this software has powerful function: DRM Remover, video converter, audio converter and extract audio from video. which can remove DRM protection legally and convert other video & music even HD video in high quality. You can learn more about it and free download it here
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Part 1. Convert iTunes Music to Zune

Step 1. Install and run Daniusoft Media Converter Pro, click"Add" to import iTunes Protected Music files

Step 2. Choose "MP3" as output format, and the default setting works great(you also can customize the output audio and video, just click "Setting" to set the specific parameter for your music video files)

Step 3. Clikc "Start" to convert itunes m4p music to MP3 for Zune.

Part 2. Transfer iTunes Music to Zune Software

After you convert itunes purshed songs to unprotected mp3, you can add it to zune via Zune Software directly now, just run Zune software, connect your Zune device to computer via USB cable, then the Zune software will detect your Zune player. Drag the converted MP3 to Zune software and click "Start to sync", then your Music files will be transferred to Zune.

Note:Now You can upgrade to iTunes Plus version on a per-track basis - at a cost, it still costs 30 cents to upgrade a track to DRM-Free iTunes Plus version and upgrading Music Videos will cost your 60 cents. You may also choose to upgrade entire albums, which are priced between 4

how to upgrade iTunes library to DRM-free iTunes Plus

When Apple announced that their iTunes Store would be moving to DRM-free music, higher quality 256KBPS tracks, they also began offering the option to upgrade your individual tracks in existing iTunes library to the higher bit-rate and DRM-free iTunes Plus versions. Apple is now allowing users to upgrade your previously purchased Music to the iTunes Plus version on a per-track basis - at a cost, it still costs 30 cents to upgrade a track to DRM-Free iTunes Plus version and upgrading Music Videos will cost your 60 cents. You may also choose to upgrade entire albums, which are priced between 4.

Now new iTunes Plus feature allows users to purchase or upgrade to DRM-free tracks encoded in 256kbps AAC and then share it on as many computers as they would like, Unfortunately, many people were unsure of how to enable iTunes Plus, Apple didn't make it very clear how to enable iTunes Plus, here is a guide about how to enable itunes plus

Step 1.To begin with, go to your account page by clicking the button in the upper-right with your email address. When prompted, enter your iTunes password to progress to your account page.


Step 2. You should now be at your iTunes account page. As you may have already noticed, the first option on the page is iTunes Plus. Go ahead and click the "Manage iTunes Plus" button. On the next page, make sure the box is checked next to "Always show me iTunes Plus music and music videos when available”(this checkbox also can be used to disable or turn off iTunes Plus)and click "Save Changes".

 

Step 3.That's all there is to it! Now that iTunes Plus is enabled on your account, you'll now be able to buy iTunes Plus songs from the iTunes Store. any music and music videos which are available DRM-free will show a plus (+) sign next to the price, which is $1.29 for each track.

Note: At the beginning Apple required you to purchase the upgrades for all of your qualifying music all at once, whether your wanted them all or not. now Apple has dropped its restriction that forced users to upgrade their entire libraries at once, iTunes users who want to upgrade their DRMed library to iTunes Plus can now do so on a song-by-song or album-by-album basis. if that makes things easier for you.

If your mp3 players don't support itunes AAC music files, just like this:
If you want to play those unprotected AAC music files you purchased in iTunes on other media player that doesn't support AAC or if you need an MP3 version of an AAC song for other uses, this article that will tell you an easy and free method to convert AAC songs to MP3 formats easily in iTunes and the sound quality will be perfect.

The tool which we'll use in this tutorial is "iTunes". Very few person know that iTunes can be used to convert audio files, In fact its the best tool for this task(not only converting AAC to MP3 files, iTunes also can convert MP3 WAV and other music files to AAC or M4A and preserve audio quality while converting files). Following is a step-by-step method to convert iTunes AAC songs to MP3 files for free:


1. First download iTunes if you don't have it:
Download iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

2. Now install it and run the program. in iTunes, click on the Edit menu and select Preferences. then go to "Advanced" tab and click on "Importing" Settings, Change the "Import using" setting to "MP3 Encoder"



 

3.Select the desired quality level on the "Setting" list. the higher Quality will take more time but encodes the best quality MP3. you also can select "Custom" to change Stereo Bit Rate, Sample Rate, Channels, Stereo Mode according to your requirements




4.Click "OK" twice to Save those settings and exit the Preferences box.

 

5.Select the AAC track you want to convert in the iTunes window (you can click and convert more than one at a time if you wish) right-click on it;

 

6.Choose "Create MP3 version" from the popup menu to convert them to MP3.

Note: if you purchased the songs from iTunes, some protected AAC music files(M4P) or all of them could be copy-protected and you won't be able to convert those to MP3.

And apple recently launched iTunes Plus which allows you to remove the DRM from your iTunes track and upgrade it to a higher quality format. but you need pay for 30 cents a song for this upgrade. It's basically like having to buy the song over again just to remove the DRM.

 

Or if you don't have enough money in your budget to upgrade each previously purchased song to DRM-free Music files

As the most popular online music store iTunes has millions of customers which download thousands of music every second.
M4P – a copyright protected iTunes format of "protected AAC". It is a format of downloaded music from iTunes store that can be listened to only through the iTunes compatible players like iPod.
So, if you want to listen to iTunes music with other mp3 players such as Zune, PSP, Creative Zen, Sansa Fuze, cell phone, G1/Gphone and play itune music on xbox 360, PS3, windows media player, window movie maker or share them with your friends, you have to convert M4P to MP3.

Now, we can convert M4P to MP3 with two methods.

Burning and re-import.

Convert M4P to MP3 with a Professional Protected Music Converter

Solution 1: M4P->CD-> MP3
To convert M4P to MP3, you can burn M4P onto a CD (using the iTunes CD burning option), then re-import the CD as unprotected MP3 into the iTunes library.
1. Buy songs on iTunes.
2. Insert a blank CD. (You'd better use a rewrite CD which can be used circularly and use some software like Nero to wipe off the music files you have processed.)
Note: You need to change iTunes settings in "Edit"->" Preferences" before burn and import.
Follow the picture instructions below:

3. Go to File->Create a New Playlist

4. Drag and Drop files you want from your library to the New Playlist.
5. Right-click playlist and select "Burn Playlist to Disc" or you can left- click "Burn Disc"
6.After conversion, left-click “import CD” to import CD files to iTunes library as MP3 format.
(And you can find the unprotected MP3 file by the side of the original file in > "My Document" > "My music" > "iTunes".)

Solution 2: Convert M4P to MP3 directly
Daniusoft Digital Music Converter can convert M4P to MP3 with one step and the speed is up to 27x. It also can convert protected WMA to MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG and various file formats on Windows PC.

Simple steps to convert M4P to MP3:
1. Add iTunes M4P and other protected files.
2. Choose "MP3" as the output format
3. Pressthe "Start" button.
Now you can own the music forever and play it on your mp3 player, cell phone, windows media player and other portable players without restriction