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Originally Posted by bigpapy
How can I burn my Itunes music on MP3 disk and also transfer the music on Itunes to windows madia player?  |
Short Answer: You can't.....not really
Long Answer: iTunes (and im speaking as a fan and longtime user) is hellbent on heavy DRM, so much so that you cant even play their songs on any MP3 other than the iPod. The new "iTunes Plus" songs are DRM free (the ones with that + symbol next to them on the purchase screen) but that is still a small chunk of the library.
I suppose what you can do is burn the songs to audio CDs and then upload them from the disk in MP3 format. Only problem with that is you would have to retag all the songs and there would be some quality loss.
There are song programs out there (I think) that let you convert the DRM files into MP3s but also at a quality loss.
I am not a fan of this business model and in retrospect I probably shouldnt have started using iTunes. The way I see it though, no matter what technology I invest in for music it will be replaced sooner or later. So if I am buying CDs or DLing iTunes, eventually there will be a new format and I will be rebuying most of my music. For the time being I have an Ipod and an Ipod jack in my car so it doesn't bother me.
I know lots of people would suggest stealing music online, and I understood this 10 years ago when you had to pay 15 bucks for a CD you only wanted one song from, but now I think 99 cents is a very reasonable price for a song. Since were not getting ripped off anymore, if we continue to steal music then we are the villians.