Importing iTunes Song???

[bohunk06]

I don't know exactly where to post this question (so I did it here and in the Cubase forum). Hopefully someone in here can help me. I am editing a video and need to import a song into the video. I have the song that I bought off iTunes. But I need the song to be shortened and edited a little. I have tried importing it into my Cubase but it won't recognize the file. It is one of those protected m4p files. I have tried everything including converting to mp3 (it won't allow that), buring to a disk and importing, renaming the file extension, checked for changing properties, etc, etc, etc. I can't get anything to work. I need to use this song and the last resort I can think of is to play it on my stereo and mic it with some condensers and try to get a decent sound into my Cubase.

Are there any other suggestions that I can try. Certainly there has got to be some way to take this iTunes song and edit it. Help!!

[VomitHatSteve]

It's possible that you could feed the outputs from your media player to the inputs of your recording software and "rerecord" it. I know Audacity can do this relatively easily (you don't even have to run wires, just toggle some settings.)

As a caveat, there may be legal concerns with this. Make sure you have the proper licensing to use the audio in your film.

[TheSunsetsDown]

burning the song to an audio cd and then importing off the audio cd to your harddrive is all you need to do. Make sure you burn the cd as a audio cd and not a data cd.

[buckkillr8]

You could get Audacity (free and a program to have anyways) and edit it.

[ido1957]

Sonic Foundry - Sound Forge Studio 6 will open the .mp4 and convert to .mp3/wav etc....I just tried it and it worked.