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- bigkm, on 10/11/2007, -0/+27Um.. i just select some tracks and drag them to my desktop and a folder is created with individual songs. this works for albums too.
- GotMex, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14"Additionally, iTunes Export copies the actual music files out of iTunes' managed folder structure entirely, which means your MP3's are completely separate and playable by your media player of choice."
You can also drag & drop the songs you need from the iTunes window to a folder of your choice. The playlist feature is nice though. - ajskhan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12Finally - this took quite a while!
- LxRogue, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11They are just mp3 files, and iTunes is just a media player. There's nothing stopping me from using a different player or moving the files around, so why is this useful?
- roastedbagel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8your comment made me lol...just cause of how rediculous it is...im convinced you work for Best Buy's Marketing team...I wont believe otherwise...
- ThreeDee912, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8On a Mac, you just Select All in iTunes, and drag and drop the songs somewhere on the desktop, or in a folder. Quick and easy file copy.
- Branden, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Wow, I was able to legitimately bury all of those. Good work.
- isosceles, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Dugg down for misleading title. It's a glorified file copier, it does nothing to "free music from iTunes," which implies cracking Apple's DRM.
- bdbr, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Sheez, people, read the article. IT JUST CREATES A PLAYLIST (in a standard format). If you have DRMed music in that playlist, its still DRMed and won't play on anything but an iPod (which BTW wouldn't use that playlist!).
Buried as inaccurate. It takes a lot more than a playlist to free music from iTunes. - GodsHand, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9Is there a Mac version?
- dasunst3r, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Does this work even with DRM'ed files?
- cuttensteele, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I thought this was digg...not icanhascheezburger...maybe I'm wrong?
- TwoSlick, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Yeah, I don't get it. I just select the playlist I want, select the tracks, and drag them to a folder. They're copied just like that, so what's the point of this util?
- Zenithan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4You're getting dugg down because Rhapsody is made by RealNetworks, best known for their horrible RealPlayer application, which liked to nestle itself deeply into Windows with iron claws. People hate Real with good reason. Also, Rhapsody really isn't worth dealing with just to liberate your iTunes... tunes.
- belman420, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Actually, it doesn't take anything but a file copying mechanism to "free music" from iTunes. Freeing music from the iTMS (which are DRM protected) is different. iTunes doesn't actually modify your mp3 or protect the AAC files you rip from CDs.
If your music isn't bought from the iTMS, you can do any of these things:
1) Find your iTunes music folder in Explorer/Finder and copy/move that elsewhere (it's organized!).
2) Find the music in your playlist and drag+drop it to you desktop or elsewhere.
If you have an iPod, the same thing works on it's arranged slightly different on the iPod's filesystem.
All it takes is a little curiosity and attention span to figure this stuff out - you don't need to know anything more than how to copy files. - ShrimpCrackers, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Except Walmart sells it next to their iPods so not quite unknown.
- inkhead, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Sentui for Mac is the best though ;-)
- stalefries, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Either see what bigkm said farther down*, or whip something up in Applescript.
*: http://digg.com/software/Free_your_music_from_iTunes_with_iTunes_Exporter?t=7951236#c7951236 - Ayavaron, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Those aren't even the right spoilers. Those are from the fanfic, not the real book.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Ouch. No need to be a hater.
- mace2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2any other download sources? this one is MIA :(
- nsjoker, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2What does this app do? Does it strip protected songs?
- clperez390, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2no
- clperez390, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1no
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1And, if you're a mac user, ever since the invention of iMovie and GarageBand (so...for a while) you've been able to strip the drm out. No special program needed.
- smcavoy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1SyncTunes
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Very catchy. You may want to trademark that in a hurry.
- kazamx, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3YAY, I have wanted this for awhile.
- stalefries, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Edit timer ran out.
Or you could try this: http://www.worldsworstsoftware.com/software.html - eatrains, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2bury
- facelogic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I've been using the freeware PodPlayer to do this for 2 years. Just a single 1 or 2mb exe you can stick on your ipod and play tunes or extract stuff on any (windows) PC you hook it up to. It saved my ass when I lost my drive on my PC too...I was able to quickly get all my music back from the iPod.
http://www.ipodsoft.com/site/pmwiki.php?n=podplayer.Homepage - Trapped, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Actually, it is bundled with the iLife suite of applications from Apple in that people can purchase which comes in a box.
- huntz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2bah...
for mac I use iTuneMyWalkman
- http://ilari.scheinin.fidisk.fi/itunemywalkman/
iTuneMyWalkman is an open source application that will help you synchronize the contents of iTunes playlists to your mobile phone or other portable device. The purpose is to make the process as easy as possible, almost like it is with an iPod.
for windowze iTunes Sync
- http://www.binaryfortress.com/itunes-sync/
In just a few easy steps you can synchronize any iTunes playlist with any MP3 player that shows up as a drive letter in Windows.
bye - MephistoX, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Its called using Audacity. Open the file and then save the stream as an mp3, or something else.
The possibilities are endless! - socketscientist, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Never had any issues just dragging the contents of an iTunes playlist to my Walkman phone. It doesn't have enough memory to be bothered with playlists, but wouldn't any device that did have enough memory also have the ability to make its own playlists with dragged and dropped files? Just trying to figure out who would find this app useful ...
- ChaoticCheez, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2There's already been programs like this out for over a year that strip DRM off of iTunes songs. There was actually an episode of TheBroken dealing with this issue almost a year ago. Come on now this is old news. Buried for inaccuracy.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This has been around for ages...
- JuiceShepp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Indeed, none the less, it's still a great program, and there's nothing wrong with a bit of promoting it.
- EdwardsNH, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Or use iDump.
- jackfreedoms, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Review All Software
http://reviewallsoftware.blogspot.com - darrenpauli, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1DiG, DuG - the difference is u
- deanh12345, on 07/10/2009, -0/+0OK People, iTunes Exporter does rock, but aren't we all overlooking an EASIER, sometimes BETTER way to free your music?
Drag-and-drop, baby. That's right, iTunes doesn't make it that hard, afterall. Open iTunes, select the tunes you want to export, then drag them into a destination folder on your hard drive. An exact copy is made almost instantly. Easy, yes? As to better, the limitation of iTunes Export(er) is that it only exports in bulk by track name, without any distinction to album or artist. So if you want a separate folder for each album that you export, you are out of luck. At least with the drag-and-drop method, you can create the album folders and then drop into them.
Shablam! Have fun, the easy way. - samshaikh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+01. hold down mouse button
2. drag files to appropriate location using spring-loaded folders.
3. learn how to use your operating system - NerveBand, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3What happened to Right Click > Reveal in Finder/Show in explorer?
- inkhead, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1There are plenty of free utilities to do this for Windows and Mac already. Just search versiontracker.com, do we really need a post about a software utility when there are dozens of free ones that any reasonable person (meaning knowing how to to use a search engine) could find?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1It's been around awhile... You don't have to wait for something to be posted to digg before you using it.
- udahlen, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2iTunes is good.
- JuiceShepp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0"iTunesExportUI is a wizard based tool to export playlists from the iTunes Music library to a generic m3u file format." This way you can import your iTunes playlists into other media players.
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