Music downloaded online is mostly restricted by DRM protection. To break the protection, many people burn their music collection to a CD so that they can play music on every device. Some people claim that they will never purchase music online. Instead, they buy CDs.
What’s your option? Despite the other factors, from the angle of costing, A CD is costing more than a music collection downloaded online. But there is one thing: if you ever have an incompatible MP3 player for your downloaded music, you have one thing to spend – a blank CD. And if you purchase music from iTunes, don’t ever think that Apple do not pose restriction on your iPod. Apple lets you transfer music from a computer to numberless iPods, but do not allow you to use iPod to copy a music library from one computer to another.
There is a better way to play and share music, as I discover recently. That is to create a virtual CD burner on your computer, virtually burning music on your computer but not a real CD. This method saves you a lot of time and money. The easiest thing to do is to download a free or low cost program to handle creating the virtual CD or DVD drive for you. One popular method is using M4P converter, which is intended to help you make backups of your iTunes library without burning actual disks.
These M4P converters adopt virtual burning technology so that you can burn music without a real CD. What is also worthy to tell is the fast burning speed and the ability of performing audio conversion. It is handy for making sure you have an mp3 for every song, in case something happens to your computer, external drive or online storage.
I do test a lot of M4P converters in the market. Not a bit of them have problems like converted songs skipped for a second, and several of them do not get good output quality, and some cannot keep album information etc. As far as I know, NoteBurner Audio Converter is the most satisfied M4P converter I tested although this program needs media player to accomplish the conversion process, such as iTunes, Windows Media Player, RealPlay etc. It is fairly easy to use, and easy to master. The converting speed is very fast compared to most of the M4P conversion software in the market. Other programs such as TunePat, Tune4Win etc. are also good. Google search “M4P converter” and you will discover more.
However you choose to solve your problem, there is not one method to create a virtual CD drive. And M4P converter is the easiest method as far as I know. If you have a solution other than that one, please add it to comments – I could love to hear new tips and learn from you.
