How to transfer music files from iCloud Drive to Google Drive

When iTunes Match users can upload their purchased Music files to iCloud, and then play these DRM-free music files on other player devices. To the DRM Music files of Apple Music & iTunes Match, it won’t work any more when users stop paying for the services. And you can’t transfer them to Google Drive.

Here we talked how to remove DRM from the protected music of iCloud and then transfer the unprotected files to your Google Drive and other audio player as you like.

To remove the DRM from protected music of iCloud, we need a helper – Macsome iTunes Converter, take Mac version for example (Windows version is also supported.).

Go to download the latest version of iTunes Music Converter, install and run it.

Please make sure that if you want to convert the DRM protected music files of iCloud, you need to download them to your iTunes from iCloud at first.

1. Click "+" to import the music files you want to convert.

And you will find all the music files are in the Music library including Apple Music files and iTunes Match music files.

2. Set the output format and output folder by clicking the set icon. If necessary, you can also reset the related audio parameters.

Now the output formats have MP3 and AAC two choices, you can just to choose a suitable one and set the other parameters according to your need.

Moreover, you can reset the conversion speed, the default one is 20X. If you want to get a high audio quality, you can choose a low conversion speed.

3. Now click the "Convert" button to start your iTunes music converting.

After the conversion, all the DRM protected music files are now DRM-free, and go to find the converted files to transfer your Google Drive to enjoy them.

More detailed info go to view the online tutorial of iTunes Music Converter.

http://www.macsome.com/itunes-converter-mac/online-tutorial.html

About iCloud and Google Drive

 iCloud is a cloud storage and cloud computing service from Apple Inc. launched on October 12, 2011. As of July 2013, the service had 320 million users. The service provides its users with means to store data such as documents, photos, and music on remote servers for download to iOS, Macintosh or Windows devices, to share and send data to other users, and to manage their Apple devices if lost or stolen.

Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service created by Google. It allows users to store files in the cloud, share files, and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with collaborators. Google Drive encompasses Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, an office suite that permits collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, forms, and more.

Review of Macsome iTunes Converter for Mac

1． Overview of Macsome iTunes Converter

Macsome iTunes Converter can easily convert kinds DRM protected music and audiobooks to unprotected MP3, AAC formats for iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone, Zune, PSP, Creative Zen and other MP3 players at high speed and CD quality.

2. Detailed information about iTunes Converter

The latest Version: V1.6.0

Support System: Mac OS X 10.6–10.9 / Intel-based only.

Support Input files: Apple music protected M4P，Music Store purchased music，Protected Audiobook, any audios those can be played on iTunes.

Support Input formats: aa，aax，m4p，m4a，m4b，wav

Support output formats: mp3，aac（m4a）

Price: SD 39.95

Size: 3.36 MB

Free Trial Link: http://www.macsome.com/iTunesConverter.dmg

Information Page Link: http://www.macsome.com/itunes-converter-mac/index.html

3. Pros and Cons

Pros:

Nice and simeple user interface.

Work well with iTunes.

Support most iTunes audios, purchased audiobooks and DRM M4P.

Support protected music files and latest Apple Music files.

Select songs from Playlist

ID Tag info are preserved

Cons:

The conversion might take longer for larger files.

Ties up iTunes while it is converting

Can’t keep the chapter info of Audiobook

Sometimes error when batch conversion

Macsome iTunes Converter VS Mac M4P Converter

Macsome can convert not only iTunes Music files, but also convert Audiobooks, which Mac M4P Converter can’t convert.

Mac M4P Converter supports better output audio quality than Macsome iTunes Converter.

https://alternativeto.net/software/macsome-itunes-music-converter/

In a word, Macsome iTunes Converter can meet most one’s need, especially iTunes Fans. After conversion, all the protections can also be removed, and you can enjoy the unprotected Music and Audiobooks on most audio player as you like.

Someone who want to convert these M4P, or AA, or AAX to MP3, you need it.

Someone who want to remove the protections from purchased music or audiobooks, you need it.

If you convert iTunes Audiobooks to MP3, and want to import them to your Audiobook in iTunes, you need to change the Media Kind of Indo by yourself.

How to quickly make a greeting card for Christmas

Here i download some new card templates for Christmas 2015 for Frame Photo Editor, and make some example greeting card for Christmas. 

The process to diy a greeting card is very simple,  with the online tutorial or the built-in guide, you can make a unique greeting card easily. 

One link to download the greeting card maker: 

http://www.framephotoeditor.com/photoed.exe

If you want to find a free card maker to make a greeting card, you can try to use the Photo Card Maker to make a greeting card as well, the tutorial is similar to the Halloween card guide. 

Finally Merry Christmas. 

How to convert offline Apple Music On PC

iTunes Converter for Win has been released. To Windows users, they have a good helper to convert any iTunes audio files on PC, including offline Apple Music.

If you want to listen to Apple Music offline, you need to download it at first.

Because Apple Music is a cloud based service, adding favourite tracks and playlists in Apple Music will add them to your collection in the cloud. If you don’t turn on Apple Music, you don’t have access to your musical cloud record, and the only way to listen to the music is to stream tracks while online. No offline copies, no playlists, and no bookmarks (just the struggle to remember your favourite albums you’ve recently been listening to).

If you want to backup the Apple Music files and want to listen to these music files really non-internet, iTunes Converter for Win can help you.

First, go to download and install the Apple Music Converter on your PC, run it.

Second, click the button Add, you can choose the different iTunes library to add the audio files to convert.

And select the file you want to convert, click OK, and then all files you selected will be listed on the main window.

Third, click Setting button to set the output format and output path before the conversion as your need.

Finally, click the Convert button to start converting.

After the conversion, you have converted Apple Music to MP3 / AAC format, and the converted files can be played anywhere and anytime as you like.

2015 the Best Selling Songs and Albums on iTunes

"Uptown Funk" was the biggest-selling song and Adele's 25 was the biggest-selling album

iTunes unveiled its list of the top-selling songs and albums of 2015 Wednesday, with Adele’s 25leading the album ranking (to the surprise of no one) and Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars taking the top spot in the song standings with “Uptown Funk.”

But while Adele may have been the one breaking all the records this fall, the iTunes list should remind the world that Drake had a big year too. The Toronto rapper couldn’t top the “Hello” singer’s massive comeback album, but he is the only artist to have not one but two albums in iTunes list of the top-selling albums of 2015, unveiled Wednesday.

Drake’s is-it-a-mixtape If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, the first album to go platinum in 2015, landed the No. 2 spot on the list behind Adele. His collaborative album with Future, What a Time to Be Alive, is at No. 6, sandwiched between Justin Bieber and Kendrick Lamar.

On the songs list, “Uptown Funk” dominated the year, but the other big winner might be the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack, which appeared on the albums list and had two songs—Ellie Goulding’s “Love Me Like You Do” and the Weeknd’s “Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)”—crack the songs ranking. With Wiz Khalifa’s and Charlie Puth’s “See You Again” scoring the No. 3 spot, you could say it was a big year for movie soundtracks in general.

You can check out the full list on iTunes.

Biggest Selling Albums:
25, Adele
If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, Drake
1989, Taylor Swift
Fifty Shades of Grey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Various Artists
Purpose, Justin Bieber
What a Time to Be Alive, Drake & Future
To Pimp a Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar
Beauty Behind the Madness, the Weeknd
Compton, Dr. Dre
Montevallo, Sam Hunt

Biggest-Selling Songs:
“Uptown Funk,” Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars
“Thinking Out Loud,” Ed Sheeran
“See You Again,” Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth
“Sugar,” Maroon 5
“Shut Up and Dance,” Walk the Moon
“Hello,” Adele
“Love Me Like You Do,” Ellie Goulding
“Honey, I’m Good.,” Andy Grammar
“Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey),” the Weeknd
‘Trap Queen,” Fetty Wap

Reblog from http://time.com/4142737/itunes-best-selling-albums-songs-adele-bruno-mars-uptown-funk/

If you have some important Apple Music songs to backup, the Apple Music Converter help you.  It supports Windows Version and Mac iTunes Music Converter  version, you can free download it as you like. 

Special Sales for iTunes Gift Cards

It never hurts to get a nifty discount.

That and it’s nice to build a nice cache of iTunes gift cards to use all year round, especially if they’re available at a discount. Discounted iTunes gift cards are one of the only ways to save on apps, music, movies and even your Apple Music subscription.

A couple vendors are selling discounted iTunes gift cards this holiday season. Currently, the best deal of the bunch is a $100 iTunes gift card for $80 via PayPal Digital Gifts on eBay. The gift cards arrive via email within a few hours of purchase, but the limited time offer is only available in the United States.

The best deal (for U.S. readers) appears to be from PayPal Digital Gifts on eBay, which is offering a $100 iTunes gift card for $80 (or 20% off) with no apparent limit (Jason bought four of these bad boys). The auction listing notes that “limited quantities” are available and the discounted cards sold out in a few days last year.

Staples is offering a 20 percent discount on $25, $50, and $100 iTunes gift cards. (limit 3, expires December 5, 2015)

Best Buy is offering a “buy one, get a second at 20% off deal” on iTunes gift cards (for an effective discount of only 10%). You must add two eligible cards to your shopping cart for the discount to appear.

We’ve received reports about $100 of iTunes gift cards for only $75 from Rakuten.com (via SlickDeals.com), which sounds like a better deal until you realize that:

1. You must pay with Visa.

2. There’s a limit of one $100 card per customer.

3. They charge sales tax (at least in California).

Using Rakuten, the total for a $100 iTunes gift card comes to $83.75 (after tax), which is more than the eBay/PayPal deal above.

What have you seen? If you find any great deals on iTunes gift cards, please share them with us via comments and social media and we’ll update this post.

Reblog from http://www.powerpage.org/the-best-deals-on-itunes-gift-cards/.

After you purchased the gift card, if you want to buy some music songs, the iTunes Music Converter can help you make full use of the Music. 

If you have some protected Movies to convert, M4V Converter Plus is a good helper. 

Good News for iTunes Converter Fans

Macsome Inc recently released a new iTunes Converter Version for Windows users – Macsome iTunes Converter for Win V1.3.0 on November 26, 2015. In other words, Windows users can also use the iTunes Converter to convert your iTunes audios, like iTunes Match Music, iTunes Music, Apple Music, Audiobook, purchased Audiobook to MP3 / AAX with CD output quality and excellent conversion speed.

What iTunes Converter for Win can do for you?
1. Convert any iTunes audio files
Any Audios on iTunes you can play them successfully, you can use the iTunes Converter to convert them. Even the purchased music files and purchased Audiobooks you can also use the iTunes Converter to remove the protections.
2. Convert iTunes Match Music to MP3
When you subscribe to or turn on iTunes Match, your device or computer will be associated with your Apple ID. Your Apple ID can have up to 10 devices and computers associated with it.
When you convert the iTunes Match Music to MP3, there is no devices account limitations any more. Please make sure that your iTunes Match Music need to be downloaded from the iCloud.
3. Convert any downloaded Apple Music to MP3
When you subscribe Apple Music, you enjoy your entire music library from all of your devices. But when you cancel the subscription, even you have downloaded the Apple Music files, you can’t play them any longer.
Don’t Worry, iTunes Converter for Win help you solve the problem to convert any downloaded Apple Music to unprotected MP3 / AAC or other audio format. And then you can play the converted Music without limitation as you like.
4. Convert unprotected and protected Audiobooks on iTunes
When you use iTunes to play the Audiobooks normally, you can also use iTunes Converter to convert the AA / AAX to MP3 / AAC audiobooks with fast conversion speed.
5. Split the big audio files
iTunes Converter for Win is also an audio splitter for Win. With it, you can split the converted Music files or Audiobooks to small clips by setting the time duration as you need. The Split function can only work on converted Audios.

Find more tutorials to iTunes Converter for Win, go to view:
http://www.macsome.com/itunes-converter-win/online-tutorial.html

The Great and Wonderful songs for Thanksgiving Day 2015

Thanksgiving Day is coming, and the music song is as important as the Thanksgiving Day food and gifts. Here i collect some wonderful music songs for Thanksgiving Day, and you may like it.

Oliver! - Food, Glorious Food

"Oliver!" based on the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. Nothing makes you more grateful for your impending feast than a bunch of starved orphans who get nothing more than gruel for each meal.

Bing Crosby - Count Your Blessings

This classic by crooner Bing Crosby is a sweetly sung song that almost sounds like a Christmas carol that my grandparents would listen too. It was written by the wonderful Irving Berlin for the 1954 holiday film "White Christmas." It’s a winner for the whole family that will stick in your heart from the first time you hear it.

Johnny Cash - Thanksgiving Prayer

This is a thanksgiving song by none other than The Man in Black, Johnny Cash. Amazing right? As a special present to our readers, I made sure to include the link where he sings this holiday treat on the TV show "Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman." You’re welcome.

Thanksgiving Song - Mary Chapin Carpenter

Mary Chapin Carpenter wrote and performed this beautiful country classic. It comes off of her "Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs of Christmas" album but lends itself to Thanksgiving more than Christmas, truth be told. So if there are country fans in your household this may just be the next Thanksgiving classic tune in your home.

My Favorite Things - Julie Andrews

This song from "The Sound of Music" by the famous Rodgers and Hammerstein is familiar to most. I grew up singing this with my family during the holidays substituting some of our own favorite things into the song. It is simply a song about gratitude for what we love most and fits perfectly with the Thanksgiving season.

Over the River and Through the Woods

“Over the River and Through the Wood” is a Thanksgiving song by Lydia Maria Child . According to Wikipedia this song was written in 1844, originally as a poem with the title, "A Boy's Thanksgiving Day." There have been many versions of the song over the years that add Christmas lyrics in but the original was just about Thanksgiving. I’ve added a link to my favorite version by Danny Kaye and the Andrew Sisters. It has a lot more of the extra Christmas stuff added in but it’s Danny Kaye!

We Gather Together - Celtic Spirits

This is one of my favorite hymns of all time. Most of us grew up singing this in church every Thanksgiving but it is a Dutch hymn that made it to American congregations in 1903. This song is forever altered for me since I first heard the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of it called "We Gather Together to Watch Cheesy Movies." I’ve linked to a beautiful Celtic rendition of the beloved hymn.

What a wonderful world - LOUIS ARMSTRONG.

It is a very simple song, that you can hear like a man talking his story to you. His voice is very attractive, and all of us need to believe in that "It is a wonderful world, and we can build a better world tomorrow"

Reblog from http://www.heraldextra.com/entertainment/the-top-thanksgiving-songs-that-actually-exist-i-swear/article_9a2afa92-4baf-11e3-9f6a-001a4bcf887a.html, 

Happy Thanksgiving Day 2015.

Ad time:  Want to convert Apple Music M4P to MP3, Macsome iTunes Converter is your best choice.

How to transfer Apple Music from M4P to MP3

Even when you subscribe the Apple Music service, you can enjoy all the Apple Music files online or offline. But you know that all Apple Music files are protected M4P format with Apples Fairplay DRM, in other words, you can only use Apple Music to enjoy the music files instead of other MP3 player and like this.

If you want to play Apple Music songs on MP3 player, you need to convert Apple Music from M4P to MP3 and then transfer them to your MP3 player easily and enjoy them freely.

Here recommend you an all-in-one yet simple Apple Music Converter – Macsome iTunes Converter, which is used to convert any protected iTunes music files to MP3 / AAC and so on. If you can play these iTunes music files, you can use the iTunes Converter to convert them.

Quick guide to convert Apple Music files from M4P to MP3.

Step 1: Free download and install Macsome iTunes Converter and run it.

Tips: Download iTunesConverter.dmg by clicking http://www.macsome.com/iTunesConverter.dmg.

Step 2. Load Apple Music files to convert.

Click Add button and choose the Music library and add the files you want to convert.

Step 3. Click Macsome iTunes Converter Menu, and in the drop-down list, choose Preferences, turn to Advanced to set the output format.

Step 4: Click Convert button to start removing DRM from Apple Music.

 After the conversion process is finished, you can play the converted Apple Music MP3 files anywhere and anytime as you like.

M4P VS MP3

M4P stands for MPEG 4 Protected (audio). The M4P file extension is seen in an Apple iTunes purchased song which uses Apples “Fairplay” DRM (digital rights management). Unprotected AAC  files have an M4A extension.

M4P files can usually only be opened with iTunes and the computer must be authorized prior to playing transferring from an iPod or burning the file. An iTunes account can be authorized on five computers and an iPod may contain the content from a maximum of five accounts.

AAC or M4P file quality is better and file sizes smaller compared to MP3 files.

MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3) is a standard technology and format for compressing a sound sequence into a very small file (about one-twelfth the size of the original file) while preserving the original level of sound quality when it is played.

MP3 provides near CD quality audio. It is one of the most common music file types. It is not an MPEG 3 but uses the audio compression found in layer III in MPEG 1 or 2 video files, the audio stream layer.

How to delete the terrible DRM of Apple Music

Since Apple Music came up, users always complain for the sucks DRM and so on. When you input “Apple Music” via Google, the first page you can find one title that “Apple Music and the terrible return of DRM” .

All of us know that iTunes removed all the DRM limitations of music files in 2009, and now it came again on Apple Music. In the terrible DRM article, the author said that

“There's not even a single standard playlist format to make switching services easier, like the old .m3u playlist files my friends and I used to swap back and forth between iTunes and WinAmp and whatever else. There's just lock-in, endless lock-in.”

For the terrible DRM, users can’t make full use of Apple Music, don’t worry, here I will show you how to delete the terrible DRM easily and quickly.

Only one program, your Mac, Apple Music subscription, you can easily remove the DRM from Apple Music.

The program name is Macsome iTunes Converter (http://www.macsome.com/itunes-converter-mac/index.html). It is always used to convert any Apple Music to MP3 / AAC, and remove DRM from protected Apple Music. If you have some other iTunes audios , you can also use the iTunes Converter to convert it to the format you like.

First go to free download the latest version of Macsome iTunes Converter, install and run it, you can see the following friendly user interface.

Second, click Add button and choose the Music library and add the files you want to convert.

Third, click Macsome iTunesConverter Menu, and in the drop-down list, choose Preferences, turn to Advanced to set the output format.

Forth, click Convert button to delete the DRM from Apple Music.

While you finish the conversion, you have deleted the DRM from Apple Music as well, and now you can enjoy and play the Apple Music wherever as you like.

After conversion, all the DRM limitations of Apple Music files can be removed. And you can enjoy the converted Apple Music files without any limitations any more.

Want to know more about the Apple Music Converter, view http://www.macsome.com/itunes-converter-mac/apple-music-converter.html

How to delete the unwanted MP3 segments and crop your MP3 for free

If there are some one music clip you like and want to add to decorate your videos or use as your ringtone, how to edit / cut the music songs? Now the article will tell you how step by step.

To cut the unwanted music clip, you need a free music editor to help you, like Macsome Audio Editor. 

You can use the free Audio Editor to easily edit, cut and trim mp3 / AAC without the quality loss caused by other editors on Mac. And you can save to a file easily, or adjust volume. Add fade in or fade out effects.

Step 1. Download, install and run Macsome Audio Editor.

Download Link: http://www.macsome.com/AudioEditor.dmg

The audio editor is freeware. There is no additional cost to get the full version of Macsome Audio Editor.

After you download the installation file, install it and launch the audio editor.

Step 2. Click Open to add the music you want to edit.

Step 3. Click Play button, and now press Start button to start selecting automatically. If you want to end selecting, press the End button.

Step 4. After you select the part of the music, click Crop to leave only the selected music part, and then if there is still some segment you want to remove, select and then click Del button.

After you crop the audio, the selected fragment will be added to the program as a new file, and you can free to edit. And now you can use the cropped audios as you like, like setting it as your ringtone, add into some video clips and so on.

In addition to the above mentioned, Macsome Audio Editor also supports ID Tags adding and editing, Setting audio and saving. You can take a try.

More functions and guides, you can view: http://www.macsome.com/audio-editor-mac/online-tutorial.html

How to free split MP3 Audiobooks to several clips on Mac

Sometimes you may have some audiobooks are MP3 formats, but the whole file is so long up to 4-5h per file. However MP3 audiobooks don’t keep the chapter info.

If you want to find the exact place which you listen to the last time, it is very difficult. Have you ever thought of splitting the big MP3 books to some small clips, so you can listen to them one by one.

First of all, if we want to split MP3 audios, we need a free audio splitter to help us, here we use Macsome Audio Splitter (http://www.macsome.com/audio-splitter-mac/index.html) to split big audio files in unprotected MP3 or AAC file format to multiple smaller pieces in a few seconds. on Mac.  

Step 1. Click the download link url to free download the free MP3 splitter, install and run it.

http://www.macsome.com/AudioSplitter.dmg

Step 2. Click the Add button, select the files to add in the new window and then click the Open button to add.

Step 3: Click Split button to customize the splitting settings.

Audio Splitter provides users 3 methods to split the audio files.

Method 1: The default option is splitting by the duration with the input seconds value.

Method 2: Split by the numbers of segments, the default value is 1.

Method 3: Split according to the starting and ending time by the input second value or click "+" button to increase the number of interception and click "-" button to delete the excess ones.

Step 4. Click the Output drop-down list and select Custom to customize the output path. You can also use the default path ~/ Documents/ Audio Splitter.

Step 5: Now click OK button to start the unbelievably fast splitting. Audio Splitter can split the files to multiple smaller pieces in a few seconds.

Now you can fast find the original or generated audio by right-click Show in Finder. And now you can enjoy the split MP3 books as you like.

Macsome AudioSplitter could only split unprotected MP3 or AAC files. If you want to split audio book files you purchased, such as Audile AA files, you may need to try our Audiobook Converter

 (http://www.macsome.com/audio-book-converter-mac/index.html).