DRM Removal - Comments Page 5

I have over 100 m4p and about 3000 m4a and i want to convert them all into Mp3 into an external drive. I've played around with sound Taxi and looked into Noteburner. I've also seen the free softwares and the purchase ones. So i guess my question is. Is it better to just purchase a program or a free software enough?

EDITOR'S NOTE: I think NoteBurner should work fine for that.

I bought many songs through Musicmatch and Yahoo. I can no longer get a license to play my Musicmatch songs. Is there any way to get around this problem? I would use less than legal means to unlock my songs due to the fact that I paid for them and the provider has now locked me out from listening to them.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Why can't you play the Yahoo Music (Musicmatch) songs any more?

Musicmatch no longer downloads media usage rights when I click on one of my songs to play or burn. The server is no longer active; therefore I can't play or burn my songs that were purchased through Musicmatch.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Musicmatch became Yahoo Music in 1994 and in 2007 Yahoo began migrating Musicmatch users to the Yahoo Music Jukebox with plans to discontinue the Musicmatch service on August 31, 2007. Sounds like you need to contact Yahoo for help getting your account straightened out.

I have TunePat which is very wonderful for converting drm m4p to mp3. The converting speed is amazing faster. To my surprise, it can batch convert more than one thousand songs at a time in iTunes! Strongly recommended!

Using Martijn's idea I wrote the following script to convert all .wav files (though obviously the extension is arbitrary) into .mp3 files. At least on my system, the 'vlc:quit' portion didn't work -- according to vlc's man page, it should be 'vlc://'. Also, below I tweaked the 'ab' parameter to 1024, experimenting a little; I don't know if that's a legitimate bitrate for this format, and maybe it's my imagination, but I think the files sounded slightly better.

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#!/bin/bash

#Specify extension here.
FORMAT='.mp3'

for INDX in *.wav
do
#sed parses out the actual filename
FILE=$(echo "$INDX" | sed -n "s/^\([^.]*\)\.[^.]*$/\1/gp")

#Copy file
vlc -vvv "$INDX" --sout "#transcode{acodec=mpga,ab=1024,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=raw,dst=\"$FILE$FORMAT\"}}" vlc://quit > /dev/null

done

echo -e "Exorcising DRM demons...\n\n"
#Remove all .wav files...
rm *.wav

sleep 1
echo "Done.\n"

Wow, NoteBurner Audion Converter for Mac is really awesome! thanks!

Zittware is pleased to announce the availablity of CDMaster32 V6.0.0.0; it's main feature is to allow persons to convert purchased iTunes tracks (M4P, M4A, or AAC) to an unprotected format like MP3, WAV, or OGG (Vorbis).

For more information; please see our free tutorial at:
http://www.zittware.com/Products/CDMaster32/Tutorials/iTunes_to_MP3.html

I use another program named TuneClone Audio Converter. It just works great for me.

Do any of these (paid or free) have the ability to scan your Itunes library and convert the songs to another location using some kind of organized file structure? Thanks in advance!
Ivan

I am using linux and want some software so that i can get all the songs off my i-pod onto mp3 is there anything you can recomend

EDITOR'S NOTE: Try Amarok or Banshee. See http://askbobrankin.com/itunes_alternatives.html