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Originally Posted by Xenophon
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 |
Once you burn these tunes to CD, you do not have a standard CD. You have one with a bunch of bits MISSING! AAC and Mp3 toss out bits from the audio. There is no way you can ever get them back. I won't ever pay for music where the company selling it decides to cheat me of the full set of bits that is on the CD. Then ripping this abomination CD and converting it to Apple Lossless is then another silly idea because it's not lossless. No music that isn't truly lossless should be converted to any lossless format.