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myFairTunes6 now supports iTunes 7.0.1.8
hymn-project.org — V.0.5.7b of myFairTunes6 now supports iTunes 6.0.5.x, 7.0.0.x and 7.0.1.x
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- HelplessSEAL, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14heh, a few days after iTunes 7 comes out, the new drm is cracked. now a week after 7.0.1.8 comes out, drm cracking is once again supported.
- niffkin, on 10/12/2007, -16/+7I had sound problems in 7 for xp and the update did fix it the problem for me.
- whfsdude, on 10/12/2007, -31/+5This is not the cracking of the DRM. It's a memory dump of the song while it's playing. There are major problems with that:
#1. No metadata
#2 You have to play the whole song through.
#3 There is some quality loss
However it Apple's fairplay technology was actually it cracked it would prevent all of those problems above. - gweedo767, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35@whfsdude:
#1. Yes, it does get the Meta Data now. That was fixed a long time ago.
#2. True, but you can sleep :)
#3. Nope, no quality loss. It is the EXACT same AAC stream you get otherwise. - stormgren, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18@whfsdude
#1. myFairTunes6 automagically copies the metadata over from the protected file.
#2. True. Although it does support 6x-speed.
#3. No, there's no quality loss at all.
(I'm not affiliated with the program, I've just used it for a while now.)
Edit: Gweedo beat me to it. - Terc, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5whfsdude, you clearly haven't bothered reading past the title of the article.
#1. No metadata (the metadata is replaced in newer versions of myFairTunes6)
#2 You have to play the whole song through. (6x speed is now supported)
#3 There is some quality loss (There is absolutely NO quality difference from purchased tracks on iTunes, although, this is still not CD quality)
update: looks like Diggers jumped all over this one. Good job guys. - skellener, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3> heh, a few days after iTunes 7 comes out, the new drm is cracked.
> now a week after 7.0.1.8 comes out, drm cracking is once again supported.
Yet iTunes continues to make money and hold market share. Guess they did something right after all. - whfsdude, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14gweedo767, stormgren and Terc,
Thanks for correcting me. I failed to read the article of this one, I was just trying to respond that to "the new drm is cracked." Most of my was based on what previous knowledge I had of the program.
Again, just trying to make the point that the DRM wasn't cracked and this is more of a OS work around to retrieve the audio/meta data.. - TomP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Mirror: http://www.tomwrote.info/downloads
- teamparadox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Semi off topic but did anyone who downloaded Itunes 7 for XP and had the sound distortion problems have them fixed with the latest update?
- stormgren, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4No. They're less frequent (at least for me) but they're still there.
- SpamHater, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3From what I've hard, the patch still hasn't fixed most of the problems version 7 created.
I even know a couple of formerly smug "switchers" who switched back after iTunes 7! I know one guy who sold is Mac laptop on ebay, and another one who just installed XP on his Mac Mini, erasing the Mac OS install.
They both took the same attitude. "If I'm going to deal with unstable crap, I might as well use unstable crap the office IT staff will support." - mushoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Sorta, but after living with that distortion crap for one day and trying every dammend setting(did'nt want to go through the hassle of rolling back) the best that I was left with was a 2.1 iTunes stereo output instead of the 7.1 I'm used to. With the update the distortion is gone on 7.1 but now there is a dammned hiss that a is bit less annoying and a bit more bareable. It's not a problem of my hardware or speakers since the same files and streams sound crystal clear on WMP. Now all I use iTunes is for uploading stuff to my old g2 ipod. Really hope the small hiss is gone next update.
- musicbear, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4@spamhater
...so just because one application - iTunes 7 was behaving badly... instead of looking on forums for work arounds and such and for updates to download, they ditched the OS and all the other apps completely or even went so far as to sell the entire computer off... because of one app... without waiting for patches or for input from other users... because they wanted something more stable... and they chose winXP and iTunes 7 for Windows? Really? hMMn...
- maxdefcon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4DRM isn't updated with every version of iTunes released, is it?
- monofonik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3No, but I think you have to have the latest version of iTunes to shop on iTMS.
- whfsdude, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2For music Apple is using Fairplay v2. Only v1 was cracked. The workaround for v2 was that Jhymn would go fetch the keys via the story and then use those to remove the DRM.
However, since Apple put an end to that DRM hasn't been cracked (well dvdjon might have but he hasn't released it). - Terc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No, but the offset in ram must be updated. The encryption (most likely) stays the same, we dont have to worry about that though, the music is taken after iTunes gets rid of encryption for us
- gotamd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I wonder if they're ever going to give up with DRM in music. I sure hope so. It's not fair to consumers to sell them this junk which may or may not work or be archivable in the future. That's why I'm sticking to 100% CD's for the time being.
- ohemgeee, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Of course not. DRM makes them money, and in the future once CDs are phased out, they'll enjoy milking consumers for their money over and over.
- ohhush, on 10/12/2007, -13/+5i still think this getting filed under apple is dumb.
- rdwtux, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4I don't fully understand this application. If you want iTunes music without DRM, why not just buy the cd and rip it into iTunes? Or, if you want to pay for the songs for digital download, pay for iTunes and then just grab the songs you paid for, without DRM, from a p2p app or torrent site.
- gotamd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I buy CD's as you suggested. However, I can see that some people prefer to buy single songs instead of CD's (and not all songs are available as CD singles...even if they are, they usually cost almost as much as a full CD anyway). The problem with using P2P to download things you've purchased is that it can still get you in trouble with the RIAA.
- rdwtux, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1if you use p2p, yes your breaking the law. Your also breaking the law by using this app to circumvent the DRM. Either way... but I meant more that if you DO want to pay for the music without DRM there are easier, higher quality ways.
- thejadedmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@ rdwtux:
P2p apps are not illegal. Using them to download illegal files is illegal.
Using your philosophy, simply owning a gun, even if you never used it to kill anyone, would also be illegal. - timmayk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3people shouldn't have to illegally download the same song after purchasing the music on itunes. they should be able to do with the music as they please. drm does nothing more than inhibit honest consumers from using their media as they want to.
- Mr.RX99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I buy whatever is cheeper. Some CD's are ridicuously expensive, but are cheep on iTunes, and for others its the exact opposite. So, I now have a large mix of the two formats.
- Shroomie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I've installed and reinstalled this three times and every time it refuses to run.
- thejadedmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Do you have .net framework v2 installed?
- terrenceisdaman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Does anyone know if this will strip the DRM on any Videos I buy from the iTunes store? i.e. Lost, The Office
thanks- TheWriteGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6No it won't.
- Mr.RX99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It shows videos in the list of songs, so I'm assuming its possible. Then again, I haven't tried it yet, so I don't really know for sure.
- aaronsadowsky, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3idk if I am mistaken...but it seems kinda stupid that this is exclusively for windows when iTunes is a mac program, I hope I am wrong though, and there is a program equivalent to myfairtunes6 for OS X...because I really want it lol...even though i don't buy that much music...but does myfairtunes6 work for videos too?
- brianp6621, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Um iTunes is most decidely NOT a Mac only program. In fact I'd wager that there are many more ipods/itunes programs being used on Windows computers than Macs.
- jeffyjones, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6This is still a hack job compared to what JHymn did, and since it pulls out your Apple ID from the song, it's legality is questionable too. I also don't understand all of the people who go on about converting to MP3. Why would you want to do that and reduce the quality further?
- lemcoe9, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1WHOO HOO!!!!!! Plus digg
- TomP, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Mirror: http://www.tomwrote.info/downloads
- streetstealth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6So, if I understand correctly, the reason this can't be done in MacOS yet is because OSX uses protected memory, unlike Windows where myFairTunes can walk right in on iTunes' memory addresses.
What would have to be done for this to work in the Mac environment? Would it require a risky, custom kernel extension to intrude upon iTunes' memory space?- kdjsmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@streetstealth: I haven't looked into this program yet, so may be talking out my butt, but I saw reference to stream capture in the write up. If that's all it does (and I don't know for sure if it is), something like Audio Hijack on the Mac can perform something similar by recording whatever's running through the speakers. Of course, MyFairTunes might be doing something more than that.
- streetstealth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I do know that what mFT is doing is different from the AudioHijack method--it's getting the audio one step before AH would.
AH is just intercepting the wave data being sent to the soundcard. mFT is actually getting the frames from the AAC before they're decompressed into wave data, so you don't need to recompress and lose quality.
Problem is, all those frames are hanging out in iTunes memory space, and I don't know how you'd peek in there using MacOS.
- macweirdo42, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1That reminds me, argh, my stupid iTunes won't work. Other day just stopped working altogether for no apparent reason, and every time I try to launch it, it crashes with an error.
- griz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4So, is digg in violation of the DMCA if they allow links to the program to stay on their servers?
- aaronsadowsky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Um iTunes is most decidely NOT a Mac only program. In fact I'd wager that there are many more ipods/itunes programs being used on Windows computers than Macs.
-brianp6621
ummmmm was it not developed by Apple...or am I delusional? Personally I don't care at all about how many windows computers use it...I just wanted to know if there is a program equivalent to MyFairTunes6 - aaronsadowsky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0....for OS X
- TimDenike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm curious why all the fuss over myFairTunes? I had a much better experience with QTFairUse.
- myFairTunes seems to strip the DRM by hooking the quicktime output in real-time, playing one song after another at normal (1x) speed.
- QTFairUse runs thru each file, decrypting at a much faster rate.
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