m4p files

[Keith G. Robertson-Turner]

Globe Trotter wrote:
> how does one play a m4p file? the following is what i get when i try 
> the command file on the file
> 
> ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, iTunes AAC-LC

For non-encrypted AAC, there's "madplay" for the console, or any
full-featured modern Multimedia player for Linux (e.g. MPlayer) + codecs.

For encrypted AAC or any other encrypted MM files, since cracking the
encryption is both illegal (in some countries) and technically difficult
(because it's a moving target), ultimately the easiest way is to re-dub
the audio by recording it playing back on any supported player (e.g.
iTunes) then re-compressing it to an unencumbered format like e.g.
ogg/theora. Most of these DRM players also feature the ability to burn
the files as cdda format Audio-CD (usually a limited number of times),
which you could then use to re-rip using cdda2wav or similar.

Unfortunately, DRM players are virtually non-existent on Linux (if
anyone knows different, please tell me), so other than doing the
re-dubbing under Windows or Mac OS X, I suppose vmware or wine might be
the solution.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39162419,00.htm

-
K.