iTunes DRM problems - can't get to my music

[Schnieds]

Hey All,

Unfortunately I have purchased at least a half-dozen albums using iTunes 5 & 6. I have changed computer hardware a few times over the last few years and now I am out of iTunes computer authorization licenses. I am going to be making another computer change soon, but I dodn't want to lose all of the music I have downloaded.

Is there any way to strip the DRM from the music I have purchased other than burning CD's and re-importing? This is really frustrating since I paid for this music and now I have to try to figure out a way to keep listening to it.

 

[pkananen]

contact customer support

 

[Schnieds]

Can they up the computer limit?

BTW.. nice sig. 😉 One of my favorite quotes of all time.

 

[erikistired]

open itunes and go into your account info, you should be able to do a complete deauthorize there. something i've learned quickly is to deauthorize my computer before doing any upgrades to it, just in case.

edit: maybe not, i know there is a way to do it, just can't remember where.

How do I deauthorize all of my computers?

If you have authorized five computers, a button labeled "Deauthorize All" will appear in your Account Information screen. This button will deauthorize all computers associated with your account. You can then reauthorize up to 5 computers. Note: You can only use this feature once a year.

 

[0roo0roo]

yup deauthorize

 

[CKent]

Use a real music player, don't buy DRM'd music - it violates our constitutional rights, and only the RIAA's money makes DRM legal in the first place.

"Let me issue and control a nation's money, and I care not who writes its laws" - Meyer Rothschild

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: CKent
Use a real music player, don't buy DRM'd music - it violates our constitutional rights, and only the RIAA's money makes DRM legal in the first place.

"Let me issue and control a nation's money, and I care not who writes its laws" - Meyer Rothschild

where in the constitution does it say "you have the right to make a bazillion copies of the Jessica Simpson CD you bought" I don't care for DRM, but Apple forces nobody to buy songs off iTunes right? and DRM should be perfectly legal. The last PC game I bought was protected to where I couldn't make a 100% backup copy, is that illegal too? Like it or not, DRM is the way of the digital future, and I'd rather get use to it now, before it's totally shoved down my throat.

 

[erikistired]

Originally posted by: CKent
Use a real music player, don't buy DRM'd music - it violates our constitutional rights, and only the RIAA's money makes DRM legal in the first place.

"Let me issue and control a nation's money, and I care not who writes its laws" - Meyer Rothschild

thanks for adding to the thread!! so helpful. how about you stop stealing music so that we aren't forced into situations like drm?

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: fisher

Originally posted by: CKent
Use a real music player, don't buy DRM'd music - it violates our constitutional rights, and only the RIAA's money makes DRM legal in the first place.

"Let me issue and control a nation's money, and I care not who writes its laws" - Meyer Rothschild

thanks for adding to the thread!! so helpful. how about you stop stealing music so that we aren't forced into situations like drm?

other forms of media exist... such as the compact disc, more commonly known as the "CD"😀

buy cd ---> rip cd ---> DRM-less music

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: fisher

Originally posted by: CKent
Use a real music player, don't buy DRM'd music - it violates our constitutional rights, and only the RIAA's money makes DRM legal in the first place.

"Let me issue and control a nation's money, and I care not who writes its laws" - Meyer Rothschild

thanks for adding to the thread!! so helpful. how about you stop stealing music so that we aren't forced into situations like drm?

other forms of media exist... such as the compact disc, more commonly known as the "CD"😀

buy cd ---> rip cd ---> DRM-less music

qft. I refuse to buy drm'ed music and it's therefore only fair to not pirate music.

 

[erikistired]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: fisher

Originally posted by: CKent
Use a real music player, don't buy DRM'd music - it violates our constitutional rights, and only the RIAA's money makes DRM legal in the first place.

"Let me issue and control a nation's money, and I care not who writes its laws" - Meyer Rothschild

thanks for adding to the thread!! so helpful. how about you stop stealing music so that we aren't forced into situations like drm?

other forms of media exist... such as the compact disc, more commonly known as the "CD"😀

buy cd ---> rip cd ---> DRM-less music

unfortunately the next step to that is "share music on the internet" and now we have DRM. most of my music is ripped from cd, but i buy single tunes on itunes from time to time. it's cheap and easy and since i don't share my music with random folks i'm not really worried about drm.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: fisher

Originally posted by: CKent
Use a real music player, don't buy DRM'd music - it violates our constitutional rights, and only the RIAA's money makes DRM legal in the first place.

"Let me issue and control a nation's money, and I care not who writes its laws" - Meyer Rothschild

thanks for adding to the thread!! so helpful. how about you stop stealing music so that we aren't forced into situations like drm?

Fsck you, idiot. I buy CDs

I'll go a bit further here and point out that buying DRM'd music is the culprit here. Pay someone to screw you, and guess what? They'll keep screwing you.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: CKent

Originally posted by: fisher

Originally posted by: CKent
Use a real music player, don't buy DRM'd music - it violates our constitutional rights, and only the RIAA's money makes DRM legal in the first place.

"Let me issue and control a nation's money, and I care not who writes its laws" - Meyer Rothschild

thanks for adding to the thread!! so helpful. how about you stop stealing music so that we aren't forced into situations like drm?

Fsck you, idiot. I buy CDs

I'll go a bit further here and point out that buying DRM'd music is the culprit here. Pay someone to screw you, and guess what? They'll keep screwing you.

how is apple screwing anyone with their DRM? I can buy a song, I can play it on my pc, on a lot of portable devices, oh yeah, and I can make a physical cd copy of it. And from there if I want to make 50 more cd's I can do so with zero effort involved.

Itunes, I can buy the ONE or TWO good songs of an album, legally for 99 cents each.
retail cd, 11-20 bucks for the ONE or TWO songs I like with a bunch of crap filler.

yeah, Apple and DRM are teh evilz!

 

[UsandThem]

I posted a thread about this here.

However, Homerboy was not too impressed by it. It seems that you can't post something that he isn't interested in.

However, it looks like it works.

Here it is in more detail:

Link to engadget

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: QueBert

Originally posted by: CKent

Originally posted by: fisher

Originally posted by: CKent
Use a real music player, don't buy DRM'd music - it violates our constitutional rights, and only the RIAA's money makes DRM legal in the first place.

"Let me issue and control a nation's money, and I care not who writes its laws" - Meyer Rothschild

thanks for adding to the thread!! so helpful. how about you stop stealing music so that we aren't forced into situations like drm?

Fsck you, idiot. I buy CDs

I'll go a bit further here and point out that buying DRM'd music is the culprit here. Pay someone to screw you, and guess what? They'll keep screwing you.

how is apple screwing anyone with their DRM? I can buy a song, I can play it on my pc, on a lot of portable devices, oh yeah, and I can make a physical cd copy of it. And from there if I want to make 50 more cd's I can do so with zero effort involved.

Itunes, I can buy the ONE or TWO good songs of an album, legally for 99 cents each.
retail cd, 11-20 bucks for the ONE or TWO songs I like with a bunch of crap filler.

yeah, Apple and DRM are teh evilz!

Lol 😛 Well I think we're coming from two very different perspectives here. I'm a firm believer in personal freedoms and so I don't see where DRM should even be thought about, much less the norm. Again, I'll go a bit further:

1) Moist DRM'd stuff is 128bit, but costs full price. 128bit encoding, even with a decent codec such as Apple's AAC or ogg-vorbis, leaves a lot to be desired.

2) I've been an avid computer enthusiast since the 1980s. Even back then (and nothing has changed), copy protection sounds good on paper, but in practice it tends to punish legal consumers while those who do things illegally get around it easily. It's a fundamentally flawed idea. I think some radical thinking is in order here, because DRM and other forms of copy protection simply don't work. I don't have the interest or the brainpower to give any examples, sorry.

 

[Schnieds]

UsandThemm,

Thanks for the link, that is EXACTLY what I was looking for!!!

My music is now DRM free.... mmmmm.... :beer:

Schnieds

Originally posted by: UsandThem
I posted a thread about this here.

However, Homerboy was not too impressed by it. It seems that you can't post something that he isn't interested in.

However, it looks like it works.

Here it is in more detail:

Link to engadget