.m4p files not playing?

I want to have a song playing in the background and it's one i got off itunes and it's in .m4p format. However it won't play. Any idea why?
thanks!

m4p is a protected file that is only allowed to be played in iTunes.

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Background: so I had @me.com account with all my music purchased but it got disabled. so I tried to reset it but of course my birthdate did not work. I dont have contacting apple but they could not verify me with only 1 security question, no credit card, and incorrect serial number. so the @me account cant be accessed. Later that year my computer got struck by lighting destroying the hard drive/computer. the good new is I had a backup of the music. I put the music file on the new computer and when I tried to play the .m4p protected files itunes wants my @me.com account I cant access. I have my music on my computer and on my ipod classic but can only play the music on my ipod classic. I have many more tracks I want to add to my ipod but dont want to lose the music I already bought. I already tried many times with program to convert the music but it seems that need the music to play in itunes to work (authorize computer).
Question: Is trying to get my music to play the .m4p files a lost cause? Or can I stream the music from my ipod classic to computer then convert it? Or can I copy an authoriztion file from ipod classic? Any assistance with is would be very helpful.
PS: fairplay is not fair at all.

You could try doing this -
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=826020&tstart=0

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Recently I have tried to convert mpeg files so that I may play them on my iPod video. It really has not worked out for me though. I am using quicktime pro to convert the video but as soon as I put the video on my iPod there is no sound. I am using all the updated versions on iTunes and Quicktime but the problem is not going away. Can anybody help? Thank you.

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Thanks for your reply, I ran it through Media Info. Here are the results:
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1 Video stream: MPEG video
1 Audio stream: AC-3
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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:50:15 -0700
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Subject: HELP....AVCHD / MPEG files not playing correctly!
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Welcome to the forum.A screendump of what these SD files exactly are would be very nice.Run them throught Media info.http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
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The .swf is loading just fine... but it is expecting to load a .flv video file.
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