A Lesson In Crime: How To Liberate Your iTunes-Store Purchases - Idolator Comments

A Lesson In Crime: How To Liberate Your iTunes-Store Purchases

mackro — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:28:59 EDT

You guys can throw me into the fire if you want, but I semi-regularly buy tunes from iTunes, mainly because I want to guarantee a non-defective mp3 download from an artist, and I want the artist to get paid -- middlemen be damned.

I do burn these tracks to CD-R, but I catalog these CD-Rs so that I minimize burning multiple songs again and again.

That said, you can get past ANY DRM issues from any operation system, hardware, software, whatever by finding a way to record the audio raw to another digital source, like a secondary computer, then use some freeware wave editing application to create the songs from the big wave dump, then convert these files to any compressed music file format you want.

Is it more time? Sure. It's just as painful as the "good ol' days" when you had to actually wait the entire length of the songs to make cassette mixes. Heresy, I know.

mackro

A Lesson In Crime: How To Liberate Your iTunes-Store Purchases

PurduePaul — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:55:53 EDT

Deserves them right, you find a way to lock something, someone will pick that lock.

"Hack the World"

PurduePaul

A Lesson In Crime: How To Liberate Your iTunes-Store Purchases

a3ulafia — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:39:01 EDT

But if the creators of the DRM can't even keep it safe from themselves? I wonder how many other ways there are to clean ITMS files.

a3ulafia

A Lesson In Crime: How To Liberate Your iTunes-Store Purchases

pete — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:46:04 EDT

This method is exactly the same as burning to a CD and re-ripping. You lose all kinds of audio quality.

Currently the only way to strip the DRM off iTunes music without loss is QTfairuse6 or myFairTunes6 (recently patched for iTuunes 7 compatibility).

http://hymn-project.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1555&postda...

DRM is bad people. Please don't buy iTunes tracks in the first place.

pete

A Lesson In Crime: How To Liberate Your iTunes-Store Purchases

AcilletaM — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:34:54 EDT

Wow, that is like the Rube Goldberg way of getting around burning the files to CD and then reimporting them (which is still all Apple tools so Jobs still cries a little).

AcilletaM