tuaw.com— DRM Dumpster, from BurningThumb, isn't magic and it doesn't perform any new tricks. All it does is automate the task of burning a CD-RW and then importing your music back to iTunes.
Nov 14, 2006View in Crawl 4
@rhesuspieces00"I haven't tried it, but there is a way to use iMovie to do the same thing without the use of a CD-RW. You could probably write an AppleScript to automate it."as mentioned by klawz, below (far below), FairGame does what you propose:<a class="user" href="http://seidai.50webs.com/">http://seidai.50webs.com/</a>
This day would have been today or last year if WMA could play everywhere, like it would if Apple didn't provide some heavy competition to this format.DRMed WMA CDs would have been the only CDs you could buy today if it was not for the iPod and iTMS success.
What the heck are you talking about?While WMP 11 tries to apply DRM to any song you import via a CD. iTunes never did such a thing. I don't see what Songbird can do that's different here. It'll certainly wont remove DRM from iTunes Store songs.
Since everyone is talking about reimporting the CD using a lossless format, I thought I should illustrate why this might not be ideal for everyone.You see, when you are directly importing a pressed (bought) CD, you are doing this:700mb PCM > ~350mb FLAC/Apple/Monkey's/WavPackBut if you do that with a CD bought on Apple Music store, you are essentially doing this:~80mb AAC > 700mb PCM > ~350mb FLAC/Apple/Monkey's/WavPackSure there's no quality loss, but there's a huge filesize expense. I guess it depends on how important not breaking the law is to you.
"You are mistaken. Reading my RAM isn't illegal. That's all myFairTunes does."Hrm, I assumed that was something similar to Hymn, but reading it looks like it's grabbing the decrypted stream out of memory. It's probably legal, but you'd be hard pressed to defend it in court if I had to guess. I'm not saying that I think it is or should be illegal, but more that it's definitely a gray area. You are not so much removing the DRM from the data as you are removing the data from the the DRM, which is still pretty close to the same thing in the eyes of the law.This method while not as good quality wise is at least pretty explicitly legal. Personally, I don't care (I dont' need to remove the DRM from my iTunes tracks for any reason, and if I did I would just use whatever the most convenient and quickest method was at the time - I bought it, I should be able to do whatever I want with it, within the bounds of personal use... but that's another discussion).
Closed AccountNov 15, 2006
Or you could just use this tidy little app to strip the drm off the files directly<a class="user" href="http://www.hymn-project.org/">http://www.hymn-project.org/</a>No quality loss.
klawzNov 15, 2006
This works for me, iTunes doesn't know any better:<a class="user" href="http://www.virtualcd-online.com/">http://www.virtualcd-online.com/</a>(I did disable my real burner though - results may vary for you)
klawzNov 15, 2006
correction, "by" should be "buy"
hansamuraiNov 15, 2006
Or don't use Itunes in the first place?
l0k1Nov 15, 2006
@rhesuspieces00"I haven't tried it, but there is a way to use iMovie to do the same thing without the use of a CD-RW. You could probably write an AppleScript to automate it."as mentioned by klawz, below (far below), FairGame does what you propose:<a class="user" href="http://seidai.50webs.com/">http://seidai.50webs.com/</a>
delmonteNov 15, 2006
This day would have been today or last year if WMA could play everywhere, like it would if Apple didn't provide some heavy competition to this format.DRMed WMA CDs would have been the only CDs you could buy today if it was not for the iPod and iTMS success.
delmonteNov 15, 2006
What the heck are you talking about?While WMP 11 tries to apply DRM to any song you import via a CD. iTunes never did such a thing. I don't see what Songbird can do that's different here. It'll certainly wont remove DRM from iTunes Store songs.
tropican8Nov 15, 2006
Since everyone is talking about reimporting the CD using a lossless format, I thought I should illustrate why this might not be ideal for everyone.You see, when you are directly importing a pressed (bought) CD, you are doing this:700mb PCM > ~350mb FLAC/Apple/Monkey's/WavPackBut if you do that with a CD bought on Apple Music store, you are essentially doing this:~80mb AAC > 700mb PCM > ~350mb FLAC/Apple/Monkey's/WavPackSure there's no quality loss, but there's a huge filesize expense. I guess it depends on how important not breaking the law is to you.
mrgreen4242Nov 16, 2006
"You are mistaken. Reading my RAM isn't illegal. That's all myFairTunes does."Hrm, I assumed that was something similar to Hymn, but reading it looks like it's grabbing the decrypted stream out of memory. It's probably legal, but you'd be hard pressed to defend it in court if I had to guess. I'm not saying that I think it is or should be illegal, but more that it's definitely a gray area. You are not so much removing the DRM from the data as you are removing the data from the the DRM, which is still pretty close to the same thing in the eyes of the law.This method while not as good quality wise is at least pretty explicitly legal. Personally, I don't care (I dont' need to remove the DRM from my iTunes tracks for any reason, and if I did I would just use whatever the most convenient and quickest method was at the time - I bought it, I should be able to do whatever I want with it, within the bounds of personal use... but that's another discussion).