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Old 09-03-2007, 09:50 PM   #224
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan View Post
Actually, there are 3 drawbacks:

3. If you only buy 1-2 songs at a time, it's silly to burn a CD for each purchase.

My workaround:

1. Start recording software and set input to line input. Hit record.
2. Play song in iTunes.

After a few adjustments to get volume and other settings right, you can essentially re-record it into MP3.
I'm pretty sure that you can 'burn' onto a disk image. I'm just not sure exactly what the procedure is, as I've never needed to use it. I hardly own any iTunes-store purchased music anyway.

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Originally Posted by nekokami View Post
I thought iTunes would only let you burn a protected track to CD a limited number of times?
The actual restriction is on the number of times you can burn a particular playlist. So you just create a new playlist that "just happens" to have the same tracks in the same order.

Apple really doesn't give a rat's **s about the DRM, except that they have to supply "enough of it" to make the big studios happy. Apple makes their money on the hardware, so their incentive is to make life as easy for their customers as possible.

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