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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Ahhh. DRM rears it's head again. iTunes is offering tunes not protected by DRM for a higher price. They are also involved in, um, discussions with content providers who want them to charge a higher price and get a bigger slice of the pie. NBC will no longer provide content, for example, because Apple wouldn't accede to demands that would effectively raise the price of a video from $2 to $5 and give NBC a bigger cut. Other networks continue to provide shows for the video iPod under the existing arrangements.
I suspect NBC's decision will come back to bite them.
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Dennis
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There is a deliberate opening to work around this. What you do is burn the tracks to a CD (which the DRM permits you to do as often as you like). That produces a completely DRM-free bog-standard CD version of your tracks.
Once you've done that, you can import as Apple Lossless, or MP3, or whatever format you like. The imported version will have no DRM, exactly as though you had ripped it from a regular CD.
There are two drawbacks to this approach:
- It's more work.
- If you re-import in a lossy format, you'll get additional quality degradation (beyond what came from the original conversion before you purchased the tracks, that is). Think of it as making a photocopy of a photocopy. If you re-import in a lossless format, you won't have this problem.
Depending on your system, you may or may not be able to "burn" to a disk image file, rather than an actual CDR. Or not. Your mileage may vary.
Xenophon