How to Transfer Purchased iTunes DRM Songs to Another Computer

As we all know that the songs purchased from iTunes are protected by DRM in an M4P format, which prevent you copying them to other non-Apple portable devices such as MP3 players, smartphones, tablets, and also other computers, they can be played on your one authorized computer. And if there’s a possible that your authorized computer crashed or you just want to copy the m4p songs on another new computer, then how do you make it?

And here are several ways to copy your purchased DRM iTunes songs to other computers:

Method 1:  By manually copying your iTunes music files to an external hard drive and then manually copy them to your another computer.

Plug in your external hard drive to your computer. Open Windows Explorer and go to your iTunes music folder. On Vista it’s C:\Users\your.username\Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music. On Windows XP it’s under Documents and Settings.
Copy the iTunes Music folder to your external hard drive, and then plug the hard drive into the other computer.

Make sure iTunes is installed on the other computer, and just copy the contents of the iTunes Music folder from your external hard drive to the new computer (in the same location as the old computer). iTunes will recognize the files the next time you run it, and you’ll be good to go.
Please kindly note that to copy your music to the external Hard drive, which must have enough space.

Method 2: Use an iPod to move your music to another computer

You can use the Transfer Purchases from iPod option under the File menu to copy iTunes Store purchases from iPod to another computer. You cannot, however, transfer songs from other sources from the iPod library to iTunes. You’ll need to follow the steps to use iPod as a hard disk to transfer music files from one computer to another. This process will require the use of iTunes 7 or later on all computers. After you have the files transferred, you’ll need to authorize any iTunes Store content. If you won’t be using your old computer, you can deauthorize it

Method 3: Use a third -party softare to remove the DRM and convert the M4P songs to MP3, WMA or WAV format that can be played on other computers. And Noteburner m4p converter is such a program that will help you archieve you goal: play iTunes songs on more than one computer without any restrictions.

NoteBurner audio Converter has been used and praised by numerous users around the world as an ideal solution for converting various audio or music files format to MP3, WMA or WAV format. NoteBurner Audio Converter converts any DRM protected music files (such as M4P, M4A, WMA, M4B) and unprotected music (WMA, MP3, rax, MP4, WAV, RA, snd, OGG, aif) to plain MP3, WAV, WMA formats with Virtual CD-RW drive. It is a protected audio and music converter tool designed for virtually burning.

Steps to convert iTunes M4P songs to another computer with Noteburner

Remove the DRM and convert M4P iTunes songs to other formats such as MP3, WMA for playing on another computer, and below is taking converting iTunes m4p to mp3 with Noteburner for an example:

1. Download iTunes m4p converter and run as administrator to install it on your Windows OS.

2. Set output format and output folder on the main Windows of Noteburner iTunes m4p converter: you can choose mp3 as the output format, please go to MP3 tab and check the ID3Tag options, then click OK.

3. Go to iTunes and create playlist to contain songs for converting to MP3: Since NoteBurner utilizes virtual CD burning mechanism to convert audio files, it’s suggested that one playlist shall contain no more than 74 minutes music, that’s approximately 650 MB files, the standard capacity of Compact Disc.

4. Choose NoteBurner as CD burner, and then burn the playlist: In iTunes 10, please right click the playlist that you want to burn, then please select the iteam”Burn Playlist to Disc”.
Before the burning starts, you will be prompted to choose CD burner. You should:
•Choose NoteBurner Virtual_CD_RW as the CD burner
•Select Audio CD as Disc Format
•Check the “Include CD Text” option

5. Get the MP3 files:

The converted playlist and songs will show up on the main window of NoteBurner.
a. You can double-click any song to preview the music, or click the Play button to play selected song
b. Click the Folder button to open the output folder, where you will find the converted MP3 files

6. Tranfer the converted iTunes Music to a portable device without restrictions: Go to the output folder and tansfer the converted mp3 iTunes music to a portable device auch as such as a flash disk for transfering the non-DRM iTunes songs to another computer without any restrictions.
Personally think the method 4 will be worth more recommendation, since you can not only transfer the non-DRM iTunes songs to another computer, but also you can transfer to your any portable media players such as mp3 player, andriod smartphones, Sony Walkman, Zune etc.

If you are a Mac user, you can also refer to this Mac iTunes m4p to mp3 converter.

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