Why I can't burn my Itunes music on MP3 disk

[bigpapy]

How can I burn my Itunes music on MP3 disk and also transfer the music on Itunes to windows madia player?

[DealsR4theDevil]

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.

[bigpapy]

Thanks

[bhampton]

That's weird... I seem to see MP3's of all my itunes music on the hard drive. I've never had problems moving them around... ???

I guess the stuff you buy from itunes is another story and that's understandable. But... The only stuff I "purchase" is the occasional digital copy that comes with Blu's. Those can be backed up and then restored to whatever computer you want... but I think you can only have 5 computers autherized at a time.

-Brian

[Galley]

It's the record companies who insist on DRM, not Apple.

[Blu-Buddha]

There's a program for Mac called DRM Dumpster. You just need a cd-rw. What it does is gathers all your purchased music up, records a cd-rw full of songs in cd format, copies those back to the computer in mp3 format, erases the cd-rw and starts the process over again with the next set of songs until they're all copied over. It's recommended to save the original, purchased files so it knows not to convert those again. It's probably one of those sketchy-legal programs but it works.

[MattVollet]

Originally Posted by Blu-Buddha

There's a program for Mac called DRM Dumpster. You just need a cd-rw. What it does is gathers all your purchased music up, records a cd-rw full of songs in cd format, copies those back to the computer in mp3 format, erases the cd-rw and starts the process over again with the next set of songs until they're all copied over. It's recommended to save the original, purchased files so it knows not to convert those again. It's probably one of those sketchy-legal programs but it works.

Nothing quite like buying a program for something someone can do by themselves

[Blu-Buddha]

Originally Posted by MattVollet

Nothing quite like buying a program for something someone can do by themselves

How's the view from that high horse? Dude, I have thousands of purchased songs that I wanted to put on my non-apple mp3 player. Even with this automated program it took 3 1/2 days to convert and re-tag them all. Totally worth the $30.

[Galley]

There is only one legal way to remove DRM from purchased tracks. It's very easy, but unfortunately, unless you reimport them as lossless files, there will be some loss of quality.
1. Burn the purchased tracks to a CD-R.
2. Import that CD in the format of your choice. DRM gone!