DRM Removal - Comments Page 2

Thanks for the information. My manager gave me an itunes gift card for Christmas, and I was baffled about how to get the songs into the ogg format that I use at home on my Linux desktop. I've already downloaded and burned the songs to CD so I can rip them when I get home.

I tried the Audacity suggestion of hitting recording while playing an song in iTunes and nothing happens (as I suspected). This is with the latest Audacity 1.3.3-beta for the Mac.

I don't see how Audacity will record streaming audio as it only has options for "Internal Microphone" and "Line In". Moreover, you can't drag and drop a DRM protected iTunes file (from the iTunes store) and have Audacity import it as it would an MP3 or AIFF etc. What am I missing?

EDITOR'S NOTE: My Audacity v1.2.6 for Windows has Wave, What-U-Hear, Digital In, Midi Synth, Line In, Auxiliary, and Microphone options. It seems the Mac version is lagging a bit.

Disclaimer: I don't do this myself.... If you download music files (mp3, wma) from a p2p program, occassionally Windows Media Player won't play them due to DRM. What I do is simply take the file and convert it with Koyote Soft's free converter. Here's the website: http://www.koyotesoft.com/indexEn.html

It converts just about any type of music file such as m4a files to mp3, wma... whatever you need. I originally got it to convert the iTunes files cuz I dont like iTunes; I prefer to use WMP. But on a whim, I discovered if you get a file that WMP won't play, simply convert it to the other format, i.e. from mp3 to wma or vice versa and - viola! - no usage rights problems.

cool. free the music - ow and audacity works fine for me i have a pc though

Can somebody explain to me how to use FairUse4WM ? I downloaded and extracted it but can't get it to work.

Thanks.

One of the simplest methods is missing -- if you are converting iTunes store somgs, simply burn them to an audio CD in iTunes, then import the CD as MP3 files. Goes much faster than converting the audio stream in real time. =)

EDITOR'S NOTE: That's what NoteBurner is good for -- it eliminates the need to waste CD-Rs in the process.

What about Daniusoft WMA MP3 Converter?
I have used it to convert DRM video and music which seems good.
http://www.daniusoft.com/wma-mp3-converter.html

JHymn (http://www.hymn-project.org/jhymndoc/) will strip the Apple ID and copyright information as well as convert the songs to wav or mp3.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Jhymn only works on old versions of iTunes...

Is it possible for Itunes to see that a song you purchased legally was converted to mp3 using one of the above programs? Can they find out?

EDITOR'S NOTE: I don't think so... iTunes would have to search your entire hard drive for MP3 copies of all the songs in your iTunes music folder. That would be extremely CPU intensive, and would take a long time to run.

So it is possible. Is it better if you take the MP3 copies and put them in a different folder?

EDITOR'S NOTE: They would still be "visible"...