I listen to music on the program Quuxplayer. Any music file with the file type "iTunes" will not play. It will say "track failed to play." Whenever I play a music file that is MP3, it works fine. How can I listen to the rest of my songs?

This works for moving "ripped" music files.

After having a second Hard drive failure in less than a year I thought it was impossible to copy my music from my iPod back onto my PC with a new Hard drive. I called Apple for assistance and was told songs on the Cloud could be transferred, but not tracks I had copied (Ripped) off my own personal CD's, then synced those to my iPod, and now wish to copy back to my PC. Apple told me I would have to re-rip them from the CD's. They stated it is not possible to copy or sync the iPod files back to the newly loaded iTunes on my PC. The PC was my master source for syncing my music to my iPod, iPad, and iPhone.

With over 4000 songs you can only image how long that might take. I would have to also go digging in the garage for all the CDs stashed away over the years in numerous boxes. What a secretive way to file the audio files, and a more frustrating answer to give to a customer with a problem. I now seemed to have stranded music on my iPod, iPad, and iPhone. It made me want to throw them all in the trash and start over with some other type of MP3 music storage.
These are only audio files and I knew there had to be a way, whether Apple would be kind enough to help was another story. I called Apple couple of times to different techs just to verify the answer was the same. They consistently claimed it was impossible.

So for those of you to have a drive failure on your PC that wipes out your master "ripped" music files...the PC you sync your other digital devices to upload your newly added iTunes files, there is a way. I have used this method successfully. It took hours of attempts and taking notes...back tracking if something didn't work. Here it is for you to save you the same headache.

COPY and TRANSFER iTunes Music Files from iPod into a blank iTunes just installed on your computer.
For use in case of a hard drive failure or uninstall/reinstall of iTunes, and you need to copy your ripped music from one of your portable devices, rather than reloading one CD at a time. This method copies your music files directly from the iPod, as a storage device, to the PC drive. I only tried it from an iPod. iPad works similar, but I have not attempted to see if the iPhone files are similarly formatted and accessible. Also this is detailed for a Windows 7 PC. I struggled to get it on my wife's Apple/Mac when she bought a new one. I am a PC hack, not Apple. The Mac was done on the fly and I didn't document the steps or take any notes.

***C A U T I O N Before starting or plugging anything in READ FIRST****

After a PC Hard drive replacement, or in the process of uninstalling, and newly installing iTunes to your PC, your music files will not exist there. If you plug an iPod, iPad, iPhone etc into that computer without disabling "sync" first, the PC most likely will overwrite your other device that might have contained all your music (your backup source) to this point. The PC which has just had iTunes loaded, is basically a shell with no music files, and it will sync that blank info over top of your portable device music files. In effect erasing that portable devices music files. You would then loose your music files there as well. Ask me how I know this! Make sure you turn off the sync in iTunes on your PC before plugging the portable device in for even an instant! Failure to follow this important step will result in a permanent loss of your backup data.

Find the Path that iTunes uses to store music files on the computer you wish to manually transfer files to (Target computer).
Open iTunes on this target computer
On PC
upper left corner click the little down triangle.
From popup select "Preferences"
Then select "Advanced"
Copy/write down the "iTunes Media folder location" (Path) *I Copy and paste it to Word or Note pad
On Apple iMac Computer
Upper Left iTunes tool bar click "iTunes"
Select "Preferences"
Then select "Advanced"
Copy/write down the "iTunes Media folder location" (Path)
This Path info will be needed in a later step. If you pasted it to Word or Note Pad it is useful later and avoids errors.

While in iTunes on the target computer turn off Auto Sync to avoid having the iPod open when plugged in. Failure to complete this important step will result in data loss on your other device that is to become your backup source.
On PC
upper left corner click the little down triangle.
From popup select "Preferences"
Then select "Devices"
Check the box for "Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically
On Apple iMac Computer
Upper Left iTunes tool bar click "iTunes"
From popup select "Preferences"
Then select "Devices"
Check the box for "Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically
Be sure to go into iTunes and shut off syncing on (multiple iTunes users if applicable)
Then exit out of iTunes on computer. Make sure iTunes is completely closed

On PC (to copy the music files to transfer)
Plug in iPod into USB port of computer (you will need to find it as a storage device)
Go to "my Computer" or WINDOWS KEY+E
Click on iPad device icon that should be showing up as a Device/Storage (May have to reboot to detect?)
Folders appear but not your music. There is a "hidden" folder that contains your music
Alt+T to make your Windows Toolbar menu appear (if it isn't already)
Select Tools
Folder Options
View
On the list find Hidden Files and folders
Click "show hidden files and folders"
A new folder should appear "ipod_control" (folder is faded to indicate a hidden folder)
Click on the "ipod_control" folder to open it
Find the "music folder" and click on it
You will see a list of iTune files of your music (i.e. F00, F01, F02~) These F00, F01, F02~ files are the normally hidden files. They are not MP3 and F00 will contain multiple song files, F01 will contain mor multiple song files, and so on.

On PC to move the music files
Shrink your screen so you can see your current screen, and your desktop at the same time
Right click on your desktop and create a "NEW" "FOLDER" and name it "music"
Open your new "music" folder
Minimize it (shrink it) so the iTunes music folder and your newly created "music" folder are both visible
Move your cursor to the open iTunes music files click once and then CTRL+A (Copy ALL shortcut)
All the iTunes music files should be highlighted at this point
Drag the iTunes highlighted files into the other open "music" folder you created
Wait for all the files to transfer. Depending on how many files you have this can take some time
Close the window you have open with the iTune Music Files (iPod)
Minimize your "music" folder
You should now be looking at your open desktop and see the little music folder icon
Open iTunes (the actual program)
On iTunes go to EDIT, then Preferences, then Advanced,
Make sure your "iTunes Music folder location is set to
C:\Users\Your User Name Desktop\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media (or whatever your default: What you should have found in the initial steps above and copied to word)
Click the box for:Keep iTunes Music Folder organized
Click OK
Minimize iTunes
Open up the Default iTunes path you used above (C:\Users\Your user name Desktop\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media ) If there is a "music" folder existing it may be a residue file picked up when you loaded iTunes. Rename this possibly existing folder musicOLD or something similar and drag it off onto your desktop just in case you need it.
Drag your "music" folder (you created from iPod files) on your desktop into the open iTune window C:\Users\Your user name Desktop\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media folder in this example case. This creates path C:\Users\Your user name Desktop\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\music
Right click on the "music" folder you just added
Select Properties and uncheck the Hidden File box. Click apply
Open iTunes Program and click FILE (to find FILE you might have to click the down triangle upper left and select "Show menu bar"
Click ADD FOLDER TO LIBRARY. Select Music. Or "AUTOMATICALLY ADD" or get to the actual MP3 song level and copy each iTunes folder of music over.
itunes will start converting the files and they will show in your PC iTune song lists. Once all copied files have been added unplug your iPod.

Note: The hidden music files can also be copied from a computer iTunes files to a flash drive or portable external hard drive. Then transferred to another target computer iTunes folder using similar techniques. If when attempting to view the files on the portable storage they don't show, remember to un-hide again. They may show as folders like F00 F01 F02, etc.
To add these songs to an iPhone or iPad first get them into iTunes on a computer and working there.
Be sure to sign into the proper Apple ID user account before beginning to change setting or sync options
Be sure to be signed into the Apple ID account that matches the device you will sync
Open up the Computer with iTunes and go back in and turn the sync feature back on by removing the check in the box
On PC
upper left corner click the little down triangle.
From popup select "Preferences"
Then select "Devices"
UN-Check the box for "Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically
On Apple iMac Computer
Upper Left iTunes tool bar click "iTunes"
From popup select "Preferences"
Then select "Devices"
UN-Check the box for "Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically
Plug your iPad, iPod, iPhone into the target computer with the loaded files in iTunes . iTunes and the device should sync
Do not shut down or disconnect the device until the sync process is complete
Once complete, disconnect the device from the computer.

<p>The iPod lets you store and listen to or watch the music and video files. The iPod Touch offers mobile email and Internet connectivity, and has a media player. You can use your password if you forget your iPod using the iTunes "Restore" function. <br /> <p><br /> <p>1. Connect your iPod to your computer, put one end of the cable into the USB port on your computer and the other end into the iPod's data port. The iTunes program to start or you can double-click the iTunes icon from the desktop to start the program. <br /> <p><br /> <p>2. Click the iPod icon under "devices" on the left side of the iTunes window. <br /> <p><br /> <p>3. Click "Summary" and click "Restore." <br /> <p><br /> <p>4. Click "Restore" again. <br /> <p><br /> <p>5. Click "OK" once you restore the complete message. <br />

<p>Most email providers allow users attachments with e-mail message sent to your computer to download. You can transfer music files from an e-mail through the transfer of these tracks in iTunes and sync your iTunes library on your iPod. Starting the synchronization process takes only minutes. The program may transfer audio files to your iPod or use a MP3, WAV, AAC or <br /> <p><br /> <p>1. Open an Internet browser application. Visit the provider's e-mail and log into your account. <br /> <p><br /> <p>2. Open the e-mail with the music files for download. Click on the audio links in the e-mail attachment. A new window asking if you want to download the audio files. Click "OK". Be sure to note the location to download tracks. <br /> <p><br /> <p>3. Connect your iPod to your computer via USB cable. Open the iTunes media player. Click "File" and select "Add to Library". In the browser window that appears, select the audio files you just downloaded. Click "OK". <br /> <p><br /> <p>4. Click the iPod icon in the left pane of the program. Click the "Music" tab in the window that appears. Check the box next to "Sync Music." Choose the "Complete Music Library" option. Click "Apply." The tracks begin to upload to your iPod. The program will notify you when the synchronization is complete. <br />

<p>While listening to music on an iPod touch device, the transition between songs is often accompanied by a brief pause. Enabling the option of playing without a break for the songs on the device, but you can eliminate this pause, then the songs on the iPod Touch to change, without a pause between them. If you want this feature to connect to your music, you can do in a few easy steps. <br /> <p><br /> <p>1. Connect the iPod Touch to the computer via the USB cable that came with your device and double-click the iTunes application icon to start the program. <br /> <p><br /> <p>2. Click the arrow to the left of the iPod touch under the "Devices" heading in the iTunes window. Click the "Music" option to audio files stored on the device view. <br /> <p><br /> <p>3. Click on the music file first in the list of files stored on the device, hold down the "Shift" key and click the last file in the list of files stored on the device to highlight all the files. <br /> <p><br /> <p>4. Right-click on any of the files and select "Get Info" option from the context menu that appears. Click the "Options" tab to the options of audio files. <br /> <p><br /> <p>5. Place a check next to the "gapless album" option and select the "Yes" from the "gapless album" drop-down menu. <br /> <p><br /> <p>6. Click the "OK" to apply changes to all the songs on the device. Now, the continuous play feature will be enabled for all the songs on the device, so you change songs without a break between them. <br />

Apple iPad has released for several months, questions about it come along, and a great amount of iPad users concern in How to Transfer Music from iPad to iTunes on Mac.<br /> Some iPad users react: The songs on iPad were erased caused by unknown reasons. And iTunes allows only one-way synchronization of music's from computer to iPad. So they extremely want to find a way to transfer my music from iPad to iTunes, but they just don't know how!<br /> Or just as my friend Steve complaint to me: "That is a pity, I was so careless to delete my iTunes library and transferred all my music from my iPad, but I forgot that it wouldn't add iPad music. Is there any way to transfer music from iPad to iTunes on Mac? I have 2000 songs in total, I really want to go back through all of them."<br /> Fortunately, there are a lot of programs to transfer iPad music to iTunes library in the internet market now. Here I found one iPad to iTunes transfer software to help and it works well and very simple to use.<br /> The following show you How to <a href="http://www.ipad-converter-mac.net/guides/transfer-music-from-ipad-to-itunes-on-mac.html">Transfer Music from iPad to iTunes on Mac</a> by this software.<br /> Step 1: Download and launch <a href="http://www.ipad-converter-mac.net/">iPad Converter for Mac</a> software. Run the software, connect iPad to Mac, this software will automatically detect iPad, then the iPad icon library and playlists will appear in the main menu. Related information about iPad shows in the right window. Such as, type, capacity, version, serial number, and format. You can see these easily, when you come into the main interface.<br /> Step 2: Click "Music" button in the left side, all the iPad songs will appear in the file list. You can check before the songs you want to transfer Music from iPad to iTunes. This iPad to iTunes Transfer software support you add more than one files to transfert at a time, if you don't transfer all the songs, you need to click the "check" button one time. It is very easy-to-use and friendly interface.<br /> Step 3: Click the "Export-&gt;Export to local" option on the "File" top-menu, or directly click the "Export checked files to local" button to export and select the target folder for saving iPad Music in the dialog box that appears, and press "Save" button and start to transfer music from iPad to iTunes.<br /> Meanwhile this software contains the following Features:<br /> Mac to iPad Transfer<br /> Transfer music, videos, photos, TV Shows and podcasts from Mac to iPad library without using iTunes;<br /> Backup iPad files on Mac<br /> Retrieve iPad music, videos, photos, ePub, TV Shows and podcasts files for backup on your Mac; Mac iPad Converter<br /> Convert DVD movie or all popular video formats to MP4 and MPEG-4 for playback on your iPad, iPod and iPhone;<br /> Rip DVD music to iPad converter<br /> Easily rip DVD audio and movie music to MP3, AAC, M4A that can be played well on iPad, iPods and iPhone with excellent quality of sound.<br /> So by using this <a href="http://www.ipad-converter-mac.net/ipad-transfer-mac.html">iPad to Mac transfer</a> you can effortlessly transfer music, Photo, ePub, albums, playlists and video back to iTunes.<br />

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How to convert m4p music to mp3

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The M4P file type is primarily associated with 'Protected AAC File' by Apple Inc. AAC is the audio layer from the follow-on format to MP3. The .M4P extension is AAC purchased from Apple's Music Store (iTune) and is protected by a Digital Rights Management scheme.

Most songs sold through the iTunes Store are encoded using FairPlay-encrypted 128 kbits/s AAC streams in an MP4 wrapper, using M4P extension. Apple has maintained tight control of its FairPlay encryption. Other online music stores cannot sell music files encoded with FairPlay. This means that consumers who want to listen to songs downloaded from the iTunes Store must either have an iPod or convert the files to an open format. There are two ways to convert M4P music to MP3. One way is to use itunes for sophisticated computer user, another way is to use third party program for beginner, which is much easier.

Part one: Using itunes to converting M4p music

Step 1: Run iTunes and set burner options firstly. You can choose

Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Burning menu and then select your CD burner.

Note: If you don't have a physical burner, you may use a virtual burner program, NoteBurner. After you install it, you can choose NoteBurner Virtual CD-RW as what you do in the first step.

Step 2: Create a new playlist in iTunes and add all m4p files you want to convert to this new list.

Note: If you use NoteBurner, you need to select the output format in NoteBurner. After you click Settings button, you can set the output as MP3, WAV and WMA.

Step 3: Click Burn Disc button in iTunes to starting the burning. If you use NoteBurner, this is the final step since the program can rip back the burned music automatically. The output folder will be open automatically after all music finishes encoding.

Note: If you burn the m4p files on real CD, you need to rip the music back in iTunes. Open iTunes Edit>Preferences>Advanced menu and click small Importing tab inside the Advanced tab to choose "WAV encoder" or "AIFF Encoder" in the "Import Using" dropdown. In the left-hand panel under "Devices", select the CD that you burned

Step 4: In the main window opposite, deselect any CD track(s) you do not want to convert. Right-click or control-click over them, and choose the "convert to AIFF" or "convert to WAV" option.

Step 5: After the conversion, you may find the converted file at C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music

Part two: Using third party program to convert M4p music

Comparing to the previous method, the following is more simple and easier, you can finish the job with just several clicks.

Step 1: Free download M4P Converter, install and run it.

Step 2: Clicking "Add" or directly drag-drop protected M4P files. Batch M4P to MP3 conversion supported.

Step 3: In the "Setting" button, choose MP3 format (*.mp3), you can also custom the music.

Step 4: Click the "Start" button to start converting M4P to MP3. After successful converting M4P to MP3, the result shall be stored on the "Output path" folder. Then you can use them for playing without any limitation.