Any way around iTunes 6 DRM?

[blurredvision]

I use iTunes for my music buying needs, and I previously used the j-hymn applet to convert my legally purchased music into mp3's so I could burn a cd to listen to in my car. When iTunes 6 released, I went ahead and upgraded without thinking, and it turns out they changed or upgraded the DRM protection on purchased songs, effectively breaking the current version of j-hymn.

I just checked out the j-hymn project site, and it doesn't look like they've gotten around the new stuff yet, and was wondering if there were any progs out there which can do what I'm wanting.

Sorry to the mods, but I legally own any music I have now. I listen to my music mainly in the car, and having a complete crapload of mp3's at my fingertips has spoiled me to where switching cd's or only having only 12-15 songs on a cd sucks. I've had my mp3-compatible deck for about 6 months now.

 

[n0cmonkey]

I thought iTunes could burn a cd to be played in a car with the AAC (or whatever) files it allows you to purchase...

 

[igowerf]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you can burn using iTunes.

 

[xtknight]

Record it by analog methods. Try Audacity.

 

[LASTGUY2GETPS2]

Burn on CDRW, rip, repeat

 

[Gooberlx2]

If you have to convert to mp3 for your player anyway, then you'll only lose audio quality from going lossy-->lossy. Might as well just burn the CDs (and rip back to mp3 if you insist on using mp3-data-CDs).

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
If you have to convert to mp3 for your player anyway, then you'll only lose audio quality from going lossy-->lossy. Might as well just burn the CDs (and rip back to mp3 if you insist on using mp3-data-CDs).

See, this is what I'm trying to avoid. That's a lot work when compared to the excellent jhymn program, which you can set it and forget it.

 

[sonoma1993]

Originally posted by: LASTGUY2GETPS2
Burn on CDRW, rip, repeat

I say go by this guy method, burn it to a cd-rw and just rip it to mp3 of whatever bit rate you want.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: LASTGUY2GETPS2
Burn on CDRW, rip, repeat

Or this. Maybe there is some virtual drive you can burn to too? Not sure? Didn't know iTunes burned CDs (why would it if there's DRM?)

 

[bucwylde23]

i'd like to know how to also.

 

[LASTGUY2GETPS2]

Originally posted by: xtknight

Originally posted by: LASTGUY2GETPS2
Burn on CDRW, rip, repeat

Or this. Maybe there is some virtual drive you can burn to too? Not sure? Didn't know iTunes burned CDs (why would it if there's DRM?)

Maybe you could look into Daemon tools. They can run virtual drives, i just don't know if they can run virtual cdrw drives. Give it a shot, if it works you would be burning and importing rather quickly.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: LASTGUY2GETPS2

Originally posted by: xtknight

Originally posted by: LASTGUY2GETPS2
Burn on CDRW, rip, repeat

Or this. Maybe there is some virtual drive you can burn to too? Not sure? Didn't know iTunes burned CDs (why would it if there's DRM?)

Maybe you could look into Daemon tools. They can run virtual drives, i just don't know if they can run virtual cdrw drives. Give it a shot, if it works you would be burning and importing rather quickly.

alcohol 120 has much better virtual drive functions than daemon tools.. Dtools is useful for mounting images, but that's about it

 

[Gooberlx2]

In any case with virtual drives, the whole process, though faster, won't be automated as it seems blurredvision was hoping for.

All this is one reason I won't buy from these services....and I like lossless anyway.

 

[AsianriceX]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I thought iTunes could burn a cd to be played in a car with the AAC (or whatever) files it allows you to purchase...

I think he meant that he wants to burn a data cd with mp3's on it since his car deck is mp3 compatible, and not aac compatible.

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: AsianriceX

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I thought iTunes could burn a cd to be played in a car with the AAC (or whatever) files it allows you to purchase...

I think he meant that he wants to burn a data cd with mp3's on it since his car deck is mp3 compatible, and not aac compatible.

Technically, my Pioneer unit in my car is AAC compatible, but it will not play purchased music via iTunes, only those songs you encode manually into AAC.

 

[sourceninja]

check out something called sharpmusique. Might not be legal in your country.