arg! iTunes...

[nageov3t]

*shakes his fist*

I got suckered into downloading/installing iTunes yesterday. I had a pretty obscure song stuck in my head that I couldn't find on P2P.

everything was going fine -- installed the program and told it not to assosiate itself with any of my files. once it was running, I downloaded the song, and the world was good. Then I realized that it assosiated itself with all of my audio files. And it keeps on assosiating itself with all my audio files every time I close the program and open it back up again.

so my plan now is to uninstall the accursed program. which is all well and good, except for I now have a handful of songs downloaded from iTunes. anyone know of a way to get Winamp 5.xx to play the songs? they're .m4p

tried doing a quick google search, but wasn't able to find anything that looked promosing.

 

[buckmasterson]

Have you tried converting the file to a different format, or will it even let you? I was going to download itunes this morning to cash in on my 6 pepsi caps. Maybe I'd better think twice or so?

 

[nageov3t]

the only thing that I've read about that works pretty well is burning the songs to a CD (which iTunes will let you do), and then using MusicMatch or something to rip the CD files to MP3's.

but I only have 3 songs at the moment, so it's not worth it at this point. plus, I've been using DVD's to burn everything for so long, I'm not sure I remember where my CDR spindle even is

 

[0roo0roo]

did u look at the settings? i have itunes installed and it doesn't take over my associations like all media programs, u have options...

 

[Sid59]

change the settings to not take associations. it took associations on my othe PC, but once it slapped it, it never acted again.


as for the other question, i've read tha Real player and the newest version of Foobar2K can "unlock" the key and play the DRM M4P.

 

[joinT]

mytunes.linu.cx - not recommending, just saw it in Maximum PC

 

[edprush]

Originally posted by: loki8481
the only thing that I've read about that works pretty well is burning the songs to a CD (which iTunes will let you do), and then using MusicMatch or something to rip the CD files to MP3's.

but I only have 3 songs at the moment, so it's not worth it at this point. plus, I've been using DVD's to burn everything for so long, I'm not sure I remember where my CDR spindle even is

did you ever try the burn---rip process? were your mp3s of poor quality?