How to play iTunes M4P music on HTC Touch Pro

This guide is going to show you how to remove DRM from iTunes music, convert DRM protected iTunes M4P to MP3 and sync iTunes music to HTC Touch Pro. First, let’s take a look at the multimedia support of HTC Touch Pro:

Video Playback: Windows Media Player
Music Player: MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, WAV, Windows Media Player

So, if you want to play iTunes M4P, M4A, AAC music on your HTC Touch Pro, you just need to use TuneClone Audio Converter to help you convert the iTunes music to HTC Touch Pro compatible format and then transfer the output files to your HTC Touch Pro.

Now let’s take a look at how it performs to convert the iTunes music to HTC Touch Pro compatible format using TuneClone Audio Converter:

1. Create a new playlist in iTunes.

2. Add the iTunes songs to the playlist.

3. Launch TuneClone Audio Converter. Click the “Settings” tab. In the pop-up window, you can specify output folder, output file name format, output format, etc for the output files. Note: You can check whether TuneClone virtual CD drive is successfully installed and where it is installed at the bottom left corner of the interface.

4. Switch to iTunes. In iTunes, select the playlist you just created and click the “Burn Disc” button.

5. In the pop-up window of “Burn Settings”, select “TuneClon Virtual_CD-RW” from the “CD Burner” drop-down list, click the radio button next to “Audio CD” and tick “Include CD Text” option. Click “Burn” to start burning.

6. Upon the completion of burning the disc and encoding the music, you can open the TuneClone manager screen to show all the converted music files. To locate the output folder, simply click the “Folder” tab on the interface.

After you get the output music files, connect your HTC Touch HD or Touch Pro to computer via the USB cable, darg and drop the converted music to the music folder, then you can play the iTunes M4P music on your HTC Touch HD, Touch Pro at ease.

Extracted from http://www.tuneclone.com/play-itunes-m4p-on-htc-touch-pro.php

How to convert MKV to AVI MP4 WMV

Matroska’s MKV “universal” container is described by its developers as “the extensible open standard Audio/Video Container”. This translates to a multimedia Container designed to support practically any type of video or audio stream you might care to use. MKV stands for Matroska Video. The project itself is simply called Matroska.

The following MKV video conversion guide is going to show you how to convert MKV to AVI, convert MKV to MP4 and convert MKV to WMV for your iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, BlackBerry and a lot more portable players.

The software you will need is Clone2Go Video Converter Pro. ( free download )

Now let’s take a look at how it performs to convert MKV to AVI MP4 WMV with this professional MKV Video Converter:

Step 1. Download the latest version of Clone2Go Video Converter Pro from http://www.clone2go.com . Install and launch it.

Step 2. Click the “Add Video” button to import the MKV file. Alternatively, you can click “File -> Add Video Files…” to add MKV files. You can also batch import MKV files (folder) by clicking “File -> Batch Add Video Files”.

Step 3. From the “Profile” drop-down list, you can choose the most appropriate output format. For example, if you want to convert MKV to AVI, you can navigate to “AVI Video” category and choose the format you need from the subcategory.

Note: You can also customize a specific profile to meet your needs as shown below:

Step 4. Click the “Start Encode” button to start to convert MKV to AVI, MKV to MP4 and MKV to WMV.

After the conversion is complete, you can click the “Folder” button in the main interface to access the output files.

How to convert DVD to iPod touch/nano/classic?

Apple iPod accepts MP4 format, so you just need a converter that will go from DVD to MP4 if you want to watch DVD movies on your iPod. After you get the output iPod compatible MPEG-4 videos converted from DVD’s, drag them to your iPod with the sync of iTunes. Below is the step by step tutorial showing how to convert DVD to iPod touch, iPod nano and iPod classic.

The software you will need is Clone2Go DVD to iPod Converter. ( free download ) Let’s take a look at how it performs:

1. Download Clone2Go DVD to iPod Converter. Install and run it.

2. Click the “Open DVD” button to load the DVD movie. Alternatively, you can click “File -> Open DVD…” to import the DVD disc. After the DVD is imported, there will be a list of DVD titles showing in the program. Note: If your DVD movie is saved as a folder in your computer hard drive, you need to click the “Add Video” button to locate and import the movie.

3. Tick the longest DVD title from the list. Double click this title and you will preview the movie in the program.
Note: If you want to merge all the DVD chapters/titles into one single file, you need to click the “Options” tab in the Clone2Go interface and make the settings as shown below:

4. Choose the most appropriate profile from the “Profile” drop-down list according to the brand of your iPod (iPod touch, iPod nano or iPod classic). Note: You can also customize a specific profile to meet your needs.

5. Click “Start Encode” to start to convert DVD movie to iPod video.

6. Add the output files to iTunes and sync them to your iPod.

Done.

Extracted from http://www.clone2go.com/tutorials/convert-dvd-to-ipod.php

Free custom ringtones for iPhone 3GS using iTunes

I just got my new iPhone 3GS. As I walked through the Internet to search for ways to custom ringtones for my iPhone 3GS, I found the post written by daniel truly helpful. It works fine for iPhone 3GS, which I did not expect, as it was written on October 6, 2008, months before the availability of iPhone 3GS. And I cannot help but share the method (step by step) below:

Two months ago, I posted a tutorial entitled Free Custom Ringtones for iPhone 3G using only iTunes. Since then, this tutorial has gained great popularity. However, I’ve noticed that there are some differences between the newest version of iTunes – iTunes 8 and its previous versions (get the detailed info from http://www.apple.com). Therefore, it is very necessary to update that tutorial below:

Note: If you are using the purchased iTunes music to create ringtones for your iPhone, you need to get M4P to MP3 converter to help you convert the iTunes protected music to DRM free mp3 first.

To create free iPhone ringtones using iTunes 8:

1. Right click on the song you are going to make into a ringtone and select “Get Info.”

2. Go to the “Options” tab and go down to the “Start Time” and “Stop Time” check boxes. Check both boxes and input the time you want your ringtone to start/stop. The ringtone has to be 30 seconds or less. Click “OK” when you’re done.

3. Right click on your newly “clipped” song and select “Create AAC Version”. Or directly click the “Advanced” tab on the main menu of iTunes 8 and select “Create AAC Version” from the drop-down list. The song will be re-encoded using the start and stop times specified.
Note: If your menu item does not read “Create AAC Version” and reads “Create MP3 Version” or some other format, please go to ”iTunes -> Edit -> Preferences -> General”  and refer to the graphs below:

4. After the song is done encoding, navigate to your iTunes Music folder, locate your song, and drag it to your desktop. After the song is on your desktop go back to iTunes and delete the clipped version from you iTunes library (It won’t delete it from your desktop, it will only remove it from iTunes).

5. Go back the song on your desktop and right click on your song and choose “Properties”. Go to the name and extension section and change the extension from .m4a to .m4r (or you can just change the extension right from your desktop).

6. After the extension is changed simply double click on the file to add it to your iTunes library under the ringtones section. Sync your phone with iTunes and you’re done!

If the ringtone section isn’t available, please click “Edit -> Preferences” and refer to the graph below:

Note: Remember to go back into iTunes and uncheck your custom start and stop times for the original version of your song.

How to convert DVD to iPhone 3GS

This is for all those new iPhone 3GS owners still in fix and searching for ways to watch videos on the new gadget. Today I’ll let you know how to watch DVD movies and videos from other sources on your iPhone 3GS.

To begin with you need to know the formats the new iPhone 3GS can play.

The Video Formats Supported by iPhone 3GS Include

H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

The Audio Formats Supported by iPhone 3GS Include

AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV

Now to watch the DVD movies and videos what you need to do is simply rip the DVD movies or convert the video files into a video/audio format supported by iPhone 3GS. After you have the files in a compatible format upload them into your iPhone 3GS through the sync of iTunes Library.

To convert the video files you need to download the Clone2Go DVD to iPhone 3GS Converter.

So are you all set? Let’s start the process now.

Step 1

1. First open the DVD to iPhone 3GS converter.
2. Add DVD video or audio files.
3. If the DVD movie you need to convert is on your disc drive, click on the DVD button.
4. In case you have saved it in a hard drive, click the Add video button and locate the folder.
5. Locate the path of the folders VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. the .vob files appear. Select the .vob files and click OK.
6. By clicking on the Add video button you can also import video from various other sources.

The formats that are supported include

Audio Files (*.mp2,*.mp3,*.wav)
Windows Media Player(*.avi,*.wmv,*.asf,*.dvr-ms,*.ms-dvr)
MOV/MP4 Files(*.mov,*.mp4,*3gp,*.mp4,*.qt)
Real Media Player(*.flv)
Flash Video Player(*.mkv)
MKV Video Player(*.avs)
AviSYnth Scripts(*.mpg,*.vob,*.dv,*.m1v,*.m2v,*.dat,*.amv)

Once the DVD or video has been been imported you can watch it on the main interface.

Here’s your chance to pick the DVD or video you wish to play on your iPhone 3GS. Select the portion you want to play. Drag from the Start to trim and Stop to trim button to select the segment.

Step 2

To choose the proper profile look for the drop-down list of Profile option on the right. Choose the profile that suits you best. Like for instance if you want to play the video in MPEG-4 choose the iPhone MPEG-4 Video from the list of profiles.

The Clone2Go DVD to iPhone 3GS Converter also allows you to convert the online YouTube Videos for your iPhone 3GS.

Step 3

Click on the Start Encode button to start converting videos or ripping DVD’s for iPhone 3GS.

Step 4

After the ripping or conversion is complete, go to the Folder button on the main menu to get the converted video/audio files.

You are done. Now upload them into your iPhone through the sync of iTunes Library and start playing.

How to convert YouTube video and burn YouTube video to DVD

The following tutorial will show you how to download videos from YouTube, convert YouTube video to AVI, MP4, MOV, WMV, 3GP, iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, BlackBerry and burn YouTube videos to DVD. It is divided into three parts:

Part 1. How to download videos from YouTube?
Part 2. How to convert YouTube videos to AVI/MP4/3GP/WMV/MOV/iPod/Zune?
Part 3. How to burn YouTube video to DVD?

Part 1. How to download YouTube videos from YouTube?

If you’ve got a high speed Internet connection and a video file you’d like to download for your mobile player, the easiest method is with the Zamzar website (http://www.zamzar.com/url/).

The steps are quite simple. When your video has been downloaded to the
format you specified, you’ll receive an email with a link to download the file. Remember that Zamzar has a 100MB limit on videos, so if the video you are going to download is larger than 100MB, you’d have to turn to a software application to help you download it. Here I’d recommend using Clone2Go YouTube Downloader, which is totally free and works nice.

Part 2. How to convert YouTube videos to AVI/MP4/3GP/WMV/MOV/iPod/Zune?

The software you need is Clone2Go Video Converter ( free download ).

Here is how it works:

1. Import YouTube FLV file to the program.
2. Choose an output format. For example, if you want to watch the YouTube video on iPod, you can choose “iPod MPEG-4″ as the output format.
3. Start to convert.

Part 3. How to burn YouTube video to DVD?

If you want to burn YouTube FLV videos to DVD, you will need DVD authoring software. Here, I’d recommend using DV to DVD Converter ( free download ). Below is the screenshot of this program:

Let’s take a look at how it performs:

1. Import videos converted from YouTube (in Part 2) to the program by clicking the “ADD Video Files” button.
2. Choose DVD menu, DVD theme, transition effects, etc for the output DVD file.
3. Insert a DVD disc into your PC and click “Burn DVD Disc” button to start burning videos to DVD.

Ripping DVDs to iPod Touch/iPhone format with HandBrake Windows and Mac

No doubt you can purchase movies from the iTunes Store ready for iPhone/iPod Touch consumption, but if you already own the DVD, you don’t want to waste your money on the same movie a second time. Instead, you can rip the DVD to a video file on your computer, move it into iTunes Library, and then sync it to your iPhone/iPod Touch. The program I’d like to recommend to do this is called HandBrake, and it’s available for free on both Windows and Mac.

The following tutorial will show you how to rip DVD to iPhone/iPod Touch format using HandBrake. You can follow this guide to convert DVD to iPod Touch/iPhone whether you are using Windows OS or Mac OS X.

Let’s take a look at how it works:

Step 1. Download HandBrake from http://handbrake.fr/?article=download according to your computer OS and install it.

Step 2. Insert a DVD and launch HandBrake. If HandBrake doesn’t recognize the DVD as a source automatically, you may have to click “Browse” and direct HandBrake to your DVD drive.

Step 3. HandBrake will analyze the DVD and let you choose the title and chapters you want to rip for your iPhone/iPod Touch (in general, you’ll want the first title and every chapter). You can get an idea of which title is the main DVD title by choosing the title duration that matches the movie’s playtime.

Step 4. Click the “Presets” menu in Windows, or the “Presets” button on the top right of the HandBrake window on the Mac. You’ll see several presets; choose the iPhone and iPod Touch preset.

Step 5. Now just click the “Encode Video” button (Windows) or Start button (Mac) and sit back while HandBrake rips the DVD to one big file. This can take a while, so you won’t be able to rip a DVD on your way out the door to the airport. Make sure you plan ahead.

Step 6. When HandBrake finishes ripping the DVD, drag the file into iTunes for syncing to your iPod Touch/iPhone whenever you want to.

Note

HandBrake Windows doesn’t do a very good job on ripping DVDs to iPod Touch/iPhone format. Here, I’d like to recommend the DVD to iPhone Converter from Clone2Go. This piece of software can merge several DVD chapters into a single file, trim the video length, extract sound tracks from DVD as audio file, support M4V, MP4, MKV, AVI, FLV, WMV, and a lot more output video/audio formats, customize profile for the output file and support sorts of mobile players like iPod Touch, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Zune, BlackBerry, etc. And this iPhone converter can help you download YouTube and convert YouTube to iPhone, convert DVD, video and YouTube to iPod as well.

M4P converter – convert DRM protected AAC to MP3 WAV WMA

Are you annoyed by iTunes DRM? Do you want to remove it because you want to play the iTunes music on non-Apple MP3 players like PSP, Zune, Creative Zen, BlackBerry, PS3, iriver, Walkman, mobile phone MP3 player, etc, use it as background music in a home video, or anything else that DRM limits it to do? Many people know you can remove the DRM from 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.
2. Burn your playlist to make an audio CD. You cannot select the “MP3 CD” option since it requires the DRM protected iTunes music files be converted to unprotected MP3, WMA or WAV 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 as MP3, WMA or WAV 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 M4P Converter. TuneClone M4P Converter 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. Create a new playlist in iTunes.
2. Add the protected songs to your playlist. Since iTunes burns the protected music with TuneClone virtual CD drive, there is no limit as to music length so long as you have enough hard drive space.
3. Launch TuneClone M4P Converter. Click the “Settings” tab. In the pop-up window, you can specify output folder, output file name format, output format (WMA, MP3, WAV), etc for the output files. Note: You can check whether TuneClone virtual CD drive is successfully installed and where it is installed in the bottom left corner of the interface.



4. In iTunes, click the “Burn Disc” button.
5. In the pop-up window of “Burn Settings”, select “TuneClon Virtual_CD-RW” from the “CD Burner” drop-down list, click the radio button next to “Audio CD” and tick “Include CD Text” option. Click “Burn” to start burning.



6. Upon the completion of burning the disc and encoding the music, you can open the TuneClone manager screen to show all the converted music files. To locate the output folder, simply click the “Folder” tab on the interface.

Top 10 Free Video Converters

File formats always get in your way when you have your favorite song and your favorite player. Downloading videos and watching it on cool portable devices such as iPhone, Zune,Creative Zen, Sansa, iRiver etc is what every movie-buff would look for. There are several third-party software on the market like the video converters to help you out. The converters can change the video file formats to one that is supported by your playable device. Well, I picked out some selective free video converters that will help you convert the different video formats to get video formats compatible to your video players. Here’s are my top 10 video converters.

1. E. M. Total video Converter

This is one of the complete solutions for video conversion of all popular video formats. Total Video Converter allows reading, playing and conversion of different types of video formats. It is a great stuff if you are looking to convert different kind of videos or audios that you can use on your cell phone like say mp4, 3gp, xvid, divx mpeg4, PDA, PSP, iPod etc

It supports the video and audio formats

MPEG4 (.mp4), H264/AVC mpeg4(.mp4), 3gp (.3gp, 3g2), WMV (.wmv), Zune (.wmv), ASF (.asf), SAMSUNG L55W DC (.mp4), CASIO (.avi), KODAK DC V550 (.mov), iPod mpeg4 mov (.mov), iPod mpeg4 (.mp4), iPod H264 (.mp4), iPhone mpeg4 (.mp4), iPhone H264 (.mp4), Apple TV mpeg4 (.mp4), Apple TV H264 (.mp4), Game Psp (.mp4), Nokia cellphone (.mp4, .3gp), Sony cellphone (.mp4, .3gp), Ms Mpeg4 AVI (.avi), Divx AVI (.avi), Xvid AVI (.avi), H264 AVI (.avi), Mjpeg AVI (.avi), HuffYUV AVI (.avi), Swf Video (.swf), FLV video(.flv), Gif Animation (.gif), NTSC, PAL DVD, NTSC, PAL SVCD, NTSC, PAL VCD, Mpeg4 Mov (.mov), Apple Quicktime (.mov), HD Mpeg TS (.ts), MPEG1 (.mpg, mpeg)

2. Clone2Go Video Converter Free

This is one of the widely used video converters that allows switching file formats. It can convert video formats such as DivX, XviD, MOV, rm, rmvb, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, AVI to MPEG-4 movie format or iPod/PSP or other portable video device, It supports conversion following files

Input format
avi, asf, mov, rm, rmvb, flv, mkv, mpg, 3gp, m4v, vob, YouTube videos and more

Output format
avi, mp4, wmv, flv, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, mpg (PAL or NTSC), mp3, wma, ogg, aac

Free download

3. Videora (only Windows)

From Youtube videos to DVD’s, Videora can convert a wide range of video formats to make it compatible for different playing device. Videora offers a set of programs for different devices such as Portable Media Players, Portable Game Systems, Mobile Phones, Video Game Consoles, Media Streamers and More Red Kawa Software. It supports formats like avi, divx, xvid, flv, x264, vob, mpeg, DVD’s, YouTube, etc. It also allows batch conversion.

4. Keyote Video Converter

This is one of the video converter that allows conversion to a range of other formats. The videos can be pre-visualized and extracted in sequence. Keyote has a is fast with the conversions.

It supports the following formats

AVI, MP4, iPod, PSP, 3GP (mobile phone format), Zune, iPhone, FLV, MKV, WMV, ASF, MOV, QuickTime, MPEG, RM, VCD, VOB and more.

5. Advanced Video Converter 6.0.0.2

This is a easy to use Video Converter tool that offers extensive video conversion. The software allows batch conversion of video files. It supports conversion of AVI, MPEG, MPG, ASF, WMV to the following video types: AVI, MPEG layer 1 and layer 2, WMV(Windows Media Video), RM (Real Media).

6. Cocoon Software Quick Media Converter 3.48

This is a powerful video converter that offers extensive video and audio conversion to different video formats. With this software you can convert videos recorded or taken from your Web cam or DV Cam flux in avi divx format to other video formats. It supports batch conversion.

Using Quick Media Converter 3.48 you can convert between the following file formats:
flv,avi,divx,xvid,mpeg4,ipod,iphone,psp,3GP,3G2,AVI,DIVX,XVID,TS,DVD,VCD,MPEG,Mpeg2,Mpeg4, mp4,vob ,mov,h264,h263, wmv.Audio :MP3,WAV,amr, m4a, ,wmaQMC

7. Abcc Free All Video Converter Pro

This video converter comes with a simple and ambiguous interface. It supports conversion to all popular video formats to to MP4, iPod, iPhone, Zune, 3GP, etc.

The conversion formats supported by the Abcc Free All Video Converter Pro include
AVI, WMV, MPEG, MP4, ASF, VOB, 3GP, iPhone, MOV, FLV to AVI, MP4, WMV, DVD, 3GP, iPod, iPhone, Zune, Apple TV, FLV, SWF, and MOV.

8. Kigo Video Converter on Mac OS X

This is a versatile video converter for Mac OS X. Kigo can convert videos for popular video players such as iPod touch, iPod classic, iPod nano, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, PS3, Creative Zen, iRiver PMP, Archos and others. It converts video files such as MOV, MP4, RM, RMVB, DivX, ASF, VOB, 3GP, WMV, MPEG, AVI to iPhone movies

Kigo supports conversion of the following video formats

DivX, XviD, MOV, rm, rmvb, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, AVI to MPEG-4 movie

9. VidDownloader

Often you download cool videos from the streaming sites like YouTube, Google Video, iFilm, Blip.TV, DailyMotion, etc. This webapp allows you to convert all these downloaded videos to a playable format.

10. Avi2Dvd (Windows)

In just, a few clicks Avi2Dvd converts Avi/Ogm/Mkv/Wmv/Dvd to Dvd/Svcd/Vcd. With Avi2dvd you can generate DVD menus with chapter/audio/subtitles buttons with extreme facility.

Capture video from DV and convert DV video?

Are you fond of recording videos with your camcorder? Are you frustrated that there are so few devices that can play videos directly from your DV? Don’t worry, Clone2Go DVD Ripper comes to the rescue! This DVD ripping software tool has another bright feature: capture video from DV as video source and convert the DV video to all sorts of video formats for your needs.

You will feel free to play the videos recorded with your camcorder on your iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, BlackBerry and a lot more mobile devices. You can also upload the videos to YouTube website and publish the videos to your own website or blog as well.
Unlike other DVD rippers, Clone2Go DVD Ripper combines the following features into one single program:

1. Rip DVD to video/audio
2. Convert video to video/audio
3. Download YouTube/Google video
4. Convert YouTube/Google video to video/audio

Here is the link to the tutorial of this DVD ripper: http://www.clone2go.com/tutorials/dvd-ripper.php