iTunes music sotre restrictions

[theNEOone]

1. unlimited CD burning of songs (burn any unchanged playlist up to 10 times)
2. play your music on your ipod
3. play your music on up to 3 computers


are these only "honor system" restrictions, or are they somehow imposed in the mp3s themselves? i have alot more than 3 PCs and several mp3 players, both portable and car players/home systems.....also, can someone please clarify "burn any unchanged playlist up to 10 times." how is it possible to make such a restriction (assuming it's imposed upon you and not voluntary). would nero or other CD burning software recognize such a restriction? also let's say you take the mp3 and convert it to wav or wma, and then back to mp3 - would the "protective information" be lost in the conversion? i'm not trying to do anything illegal, i just hate the fact that i'm being given restrictions on something i'm buying.


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[LordJezo]

Step 1) Buy song

Step 2) Burn to cd as audio file

Step 3) Rip back to pc in mp3 format

And there you go. It just wont let you burn their file all that many times, but once you burn it to a cd as audio it's yours to do as you please.

 

[theNEOone]

hmm, ok. i was browsing apple's site and it seems that the store uses a format other than mp3. any idea if winamp supports that file type?


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[randomlinh]

winamp will not play the protected aac audio of itunes. that's how it's controlled. you have to use itunes pretty much. and if you convert it to aac, it kinda just craps the quality even more... so if you don't have an ipod, and dont' like itunes, it's prolly not for you. granted, if you're not using itunes, you're stuck using WMP... winamp will not play any DRM'd media (AFAIK, maybe it will in the future).