Transfer iTunes to Zune

It is very easy to create free ringtones for your iPhone 3G using only iTunes and songs you already have on your computer. This tutorial shows how to perform step by step. It only works with songs that are DRM free. To create ringtones using DRM protected songs, you need first strip the DRM off and then follow the guide. This method has been tested and works with iTunes 7.7.1 and iPhone 2.0.1 firmware. Actually, my friend told me he had tested it with iTunes 8 and it worked smoothly as well, though there were several differences in making settings due to the update of iTunes.

And here is the tutorial: http://www.tuneclone.com/how-to-free-custom-ringtones-for-iphone-3g.php

There are numerous tools available which you can free download in order to convert your audio, video, image or documents to some other format. Here I’d like to share some of them below:

1. Clone2Go Video Converter Free

The detailed info about Clone2Go Video Converter Free is available here.

2. Clone2Go Audio Converter Free

- Extract the unprotected sound tracks easily from video clips such as AVI, WMV and MPEG
- Convert the audio to different formats such as WAV, WMA, OGG, MP3 and AAC
- Extract sound tracks from videos at high speed with satisfactory quality of output audio files - Multi-select files for batch conversion
- Customize output video frame size
(From the web)

To convert your media online and receive it on your mail the following four are the best services that I tried testing:

3. ZamZar

- Supports compressed archives .zip, .rar, .tar, .tgz etc
- All popular video, audio and image formats along with documents including .docx, .xlsx etc. - Also supports downloading of videos into some other format directly from a website. You’ll receive the converted videos in your emails.
- Allows you to manage your files with its own File Manager tool but you need to sign up for it.

4. Media-Convert

- Recipient of 2006 Web user award.
- Supports docs, pdf, open office, Microsoft documents and all popular formats.
- Archives – rar, zip, tar etc
- Videos – mp4, mpg, avi, wmv etc along with video presets for Windows, Mac, Linux, Nokia phones, ipod, iphones, Sony PSP, Wii, Zune and mp4 players.
- Almost all popular image formats are supported.
- Option to split media files.
- 150 MB allowable size for any media.
- Also lists the format supported on most popular phones of the world.

5. YouConvertIt

- Excellent Web 2.0 interface.
- Sends you the converted files in your mail.
- Option to download video from Youtube, Google Videos and Metacafe directly as .flv or to convert them in a different file format and mail them to you.
- Supports documents doc, xls, ppt etc but doesn’t support docx,xlsx
- All popular audio formats are supported

6. MediaConverter

- Supports only common files including 3gp, avi, flv, mp4, mp3, wmv, wav, ogg, pdf, doc, xls, ppt and few more files.
- Allows you to directly convert files from portals like Youtube, metacafe, Blip.tv, Break.com into various video formats and you can download them instantly after the conversion.
- Allows you to change the bitrate of audio and videos and customizing codecs etc.

Clone2Go DVD Ripper(http://www.clone2go.com/products/dvdtoripper.php) is the most powerful software specially designed for ripping DVD’s and converting video files to all popular video/audio formats for playback on all popular entertainment devices such as iPod touch, iPod nano, iPod classic, iPhone, PSP, Apple TV, Zune, Creative Zen, BlackBerry, mobile phone and so on.

With the DVD ripping feature, Clone2Go DVD Ripper can rip all kinds of DVD movies to all popular video formats such as MPEG, AVI, 3GP, WMV and FLV and audio formats such as MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, AMR and MP2. As a video converter, it can convert almost all video formats including MPEG, WMV, RM, RMVB, MOV, VOB, DivX, XviD, AVI to MPEG-4 or MPEG movie formats for MP4 player, iPod, smart phone or any other video/audio formats for various media players.

Clone2Go DVD Ripper can help to download FLV videos from YouTube website and then convert FLV to any other video/audio format you need.

Key features of Clone2Go DVD Ripper:

1. Clone2Go DVD Ripper is equipped with a user-friendly interface and an easy-to-use style, bringing convenience to users.

2. Supported input media formats: DVD, MOV, WMV, FLV, MPEG-4, MPG, RM, RMVB, AVI, DivX, XviD, VOB, ASF, DV, 3GP, M1V and M2V.

3. Supported output media formats: video: AVI, WMV, MP4, 3GP, FLV, MPG, MPEG4, MPEG and MPEG-II; Audio: MP3, WAV, OGG, AMR and MP2.

4. Download FLV videos from YouTube website and convert FLV videos.

5. Rip DVD, convert video(including online YouTube video) to the specific video/audio format for iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, PS3, Zune, Creative Zen, mobile phone, etc.

6. Support video source from DV video.

7. Change video and audio properties independently, customize output video frame size, split files into smaller parts, etc.

8. Extract audio from DVD movies or video files.

9. The professional package software that bundles DVD ripper, video converter and YouTube downloader/converter rather than a simple DVD ripper.

Availability and Price Clone2Go DVD Ripper is available at http://www.clone2go.com/products/dvdtoripper.php.

You can free download Clone2Go DVD Ripper from http://www.clone2go.com/down/dvd-ripper-setup.exe for a try. And it costs USD39.95 to register the full version.

If you have questions concerning Clone2Go DVD Ripper, please feel free to contact us via clone2go.support@gmail.com . We are dedicated to providing you with the best product.

It is no doubt PSP is a great game player. But it is also a very good entertainment device which can be used for playing music. Assume you have some songs on your iTunes and are trying to figure out how to put them on your PSP. You copy and paste them in the PSP music folder, however, the PSP doesn’t recognize the songs as music at all. So what’s wrong? Don’t worry! This guide will help you out of the trouble.

The music downloaded from iTunes is under DRM protection. In order to play it on your PSP, you need to strip the DRM off and have the iTunes M4P M4A converted to PSP MP3 format. You can burn the protected M4P music files to CD-R or CD-RW disc to make an audio CD and then use some CD ripper software to convert the audio CD track back to PSP MP3. Also iTunes allows you to burn the protected music files to CD-R or CD-RW disc to make a standard audio CD:

1. Insert a CD-R or CD-RW disc into your CD-ROM drive. You’d better use CD-RW disc as it can be used for more than once.

2. Create a new playlist in iTunes. Add the protected songs to your playlist until you have 72 minutes of music. Click Edit and select Preferences. Select the Advanced tab. Tick the Audio CD option on the Burning tab. Click the Burn Disc button to make an audio CD.

Note: You cannot select the MP3 CD option since it requires the protected music files be converted to unprotected MP3 files.

3. After the audio CD is successfully burned, insert the disc into your CD-ROM drive again. Then you can use iTunes or Windows Media Player to import the music tracks on the burned disc to MP3 files. 

Sounds a good idea! But it would be a time consuming process if you have a library of iTunes M4P music files ready to be converted to PSP MP3 for playback on your PSP. And it is a waste of CD discs. Moreover, the information about the M4P music files like title, artist and album will be lost after burning and ripping back to MP3 or WMA files. So this method is not recommended if you have a big collection of iTunes M4P music files ready to be transferred to your PSP.

Here, I would recommend using TuneClone M4P to MP3 Converter to convert iTunes M4P to PSP MP3. It applys the virtual CD burning technology to simulates the burning and ripping process. You just need to burn the iTunes M4P playlist to TuneClone virtual CD burner. Then TuneClone will directly convert the iTunes M4P music list to PSP MP3 for you. It is very fast and the information about each music song will be preserved perfectly. You can follow its the step by step tutorial to learn how to convert iTunes DRM protected M4P music to PSP MP3. 

After getting the output MP3 files by adopting either the burn-and-rip method or the way of using TuneClone M4P to MP3 Converter, now you can begin to transfer the MP3 files to your PSP:

• Connect the PSP to your PC with a USB cable.
• Press the "home" button on the PSP (it’s a tiny button to the lower left of the screen) then use the left-right directional buttons to find "Settings", then the up-down buttons to find "USB Connection" on the PSP.
• Press the "X" button (you got it, the round button with the "X" on it) and your PSP should display "USB Connection".
• In a moment or two your computer should tell you that a new USB device has been connected, then show you a new generic hard drive, usually E: or F:
• Click on the drive letter that corresponds to the PSP unit.
• Now create a new folder on that drive and name it "psp".
• Within the new "psp" folder create another folder, and name it "music".
• Copy your desired mp3 files into the new "music" folder.
• When you’re done copying your desired music tracks, press the "O" button on the PSP to get out of USB connect mode.

Now you’re ready to go! Use the left-right arrows to move to the music area, then the up-down arrows to find "Memory Stick". Choose that folder by pressing the "X" button again, and you should be able to find all your favorite music!

Apart from the basic functions of calling and SMS, a mobile phone is also a pretty good multimedia player, which enables you to play games, enjoy videos and music and browse images etc., so long as the media is accepted by the specific phone. In order to know which formats the specific phone accepts, you can make a simple Google search or visit the tech specs page in the official website of the phone.

If you want to enjoy DVD movies on your mobile phone, you have to get a DVD ripping program to help you rip the DVD movies to the format (MP4, 3GP, AVI, etc.) supported by your phone. Here, I’d recommend using Clone2Go DVD Ripper, which I have been using for a long time. The main reason I am fond of it is that, apart from the DVD ripping feature, it also serves as an all-in-one video converter. Plus, it allows you to download videos from YouTube.com and convert YouTube FLV videos to any other video format you need. So this DVD ripper can help you rip DVD movies to mobile phone video, convert any video to mobile phone video and even convert online YouTube video for your mobile phone. However, it is not free. It does cost you USD39.95 to register the full version. And there really exist many counterpart freewares to do so. Yet, it is well worth a try if you want to avoid the trouble of getting these programs from time to time. Here is the screenshot I captured from Clone2Go DVD Ripper.

Personally speaking, due to the narrow screen, I don’t like playing games or videos with my mobile phone. However, I do enjoy listening to all kinds of music with my mobile phone. If you have downloaded songs from a CD or a shareware site like Limewire, you can easily put them on your mobile phone. However, any song you purchased directly from iTunes store will not play on your phone, due that it is encrypted by DRM. I have found the easiest way is to burn the music to an audio CD and then rip it back to Windows Media Player or a similar program as an MP3.

And Wordpress has a little tutorial that shows how to get MP3 files from iTunes DRM protected AAC (M4P) music in two different ways. One is to burn an audio CD in iTunes and then rip the CD back to MP3 as I mentioned. The other is to use a program called TuneClone, a piece of software that works extremely great for converting a large collection of DRM protected iTunes music to MP3, with the metadata of the music well preserved at the same time. Together with Windows Media Player, TuneClone can also help you get DRM protected WMA (Windows Media Audio) music converted to MP3 for your mobile phone.

At last you can get a microSD card, with which you can transfer the videos and music to your phone to enjoy them wherever you go. Of course, you can also get some software to help you transfer the output files from your PC to your phone. Many of them are available online.

"The majority of my albums are in my Windows Media Player and I would like to transfer those albums to my iPod. Now I don’t know how to. All I know is that WMA is not compatible with Apple iPod. So how do I rescue my songs? I tried to use limewire to download free music but it is a mess."
If you meet the same problem, you got the right place! The following tutorial details how to put both protected and unprotected WMA (Windows Media Audio) music files to iPod.

If the WMA files you are going to play on your iPod are unprotected, you just select and drag them into iTunes Library and they should be automatically converted to whatever iPod format you selected in iTunes preferences for importing.

If they are WMA files protected by DRM, it is not that easy. You need to use some software to strip the DRM off your WMA files and then convert the WMA files to the much more widely-supported MP3 format.
Note: As with any transcoding, the quality will go down. But if you’ve got a lot of protected WMA files you’d like to get on your iPod, this solution would do the trick. In this tutorial, I’d like to show how to remove DRM from WMA files and convert the WMA files to MP3 format using TuneClone Audio Converter. Let’s take a look at how it performs:

1. Settings at TuneClone

Download TuneClone (fully compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista) and install it. After launching TuneClone, click the Settings button. In the pop-up dialog of Options, you can specify the Output Folder, Output Filenames, Output Format (here we choose MP3), etc. for the output files.

Tip: You can get the output protection removed MP3 music folder by clicking the Folder button after the whole process.

2. Burning at Windows Media Player(WMP 11)

Create a new playlist and drag into it the WMA files you are going to enjoy on your iPod. After that, click the Burn button and select Audio CD from the drop-down list. On the right panel of CD Drive, click Next Drive to locate the CD drive to TuneClone’s Virtual CD Burner.

Note: If you are unsure whether TuneClone’s Virtual CD burner is successfully installed or where it is installed, please refer to the bottom left corner of TuneClone:

Then, drag the playlist you created just now to the Burn List and click the Start Burn button to start burning the playlist. While the burning gets started, TuneClone will automatically convert the WMA playlist to MP3 files. You can open the manager screen to show all the converted music files.
Note: If you get the output files formatted as 01-1.mp3, 01-2.mp3, etc., please click the output MP3 songs in the manager screen and drag the counterpart original WMA songs to the Track Info panel of TuneClone one by one. The information about the artist, album, title, etc. will be changed accordingly. It would be a time-consuming process if you are burning a big collection of music. However, since Windows Media Player 11 doesn’t support CD-text burning, this seems to be the only way to get the information back.

After you get the output MP3 files converted from the WMA playlist in your Windows Media Player, you can now begin to transfer the MP3 files to your iPod with the sync of iTunes.

Are you annoyed by iTunes DRM? Do you want to strip it off because you want to play the iTunes music on other mobile devices other than iPod and iPhone, use it as background music in a home video, or anything else that DRM limits it to do? Many people know you can strip off the DRM off iTunes music by simply burning the song to a CD, and ripping it back over, losing very little quality(if settings are correct):

1. Insert a CD-R or CD-RW disc into your CD-ROM drive. You’d better use CD-RW disc as it can be used for more than once.

2. Burn your playlist to make an audio CD. You cannot select the MP3 CD option since it requires the encrypted iTunes music files be converted to unprotected MP3 files.

3. After the audio CD is successfully burned, insert the disc into your CD-ROM drive again. Then you can use iTunes to import the music tracks on the burned disc to MP3 files.

And the method I am going to introduce does the same exact thing but you will not need a CD-RW disc, a CD ROM drive, or even need to burn anything! It’s that simple. Let’s show you how to perform this.

We are going to be using a program called TuneClone. TuneClone is basically a program that acts as a virtual CD drive that allows you "burn" MP3 from iTunes and "rip" it. TuneClone "lies" to your computer saying that you have a CD-RW drive that it will burn to (like Alchohol 120%). You can use this to move your library of M4P DRM protected music to the MP3 format that you can use on any player out there worth its salt. This is a useful tool for anyone looking to break their relationship with the iPod. The best part is that it maintains all of the music file’s metadata. Below is the step by step tutorial that shows how it works:

1. Download TuneClone from http://www.tuneclone.com and install it.

TuneClone is fully compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista. A virtual CD Burner will be installed. This virtual CD-RW will be used to convert music files.

2. Make settings at TuneClone

Click the Settings button at TuneClone. In the pop-up window, you can specify the output folder, output filenames, output format, etc. for the output files.

Note: Apart from MP3, TuneClone also allows you to convert iTunes M4P to WAV and unprotected WMA.

Tip: You can get the output protection removed music folder by clicking the Folder button after the whole process.

3. Make settings at iTunes(iTunes Create a playlist, and then add the files you want to convert into the playlist.

 

After you have created the playlist ready to be burnt, click the Burn Disc in the bottom right of iTunes. In the pop up window of Burn Settings, make the settings as highlighted below:

4. Start to burn Click the Burn button to start burning. After the burning gets started, TuneClone will automatically convert the music file to MP3, WMA or WAV. You can open the manager screen to show all the converted music files.

The most important step is to choose the CD burner. Then the software can convert the music files automatically. It is exceedingly easy when you want to batch convert lots of files.