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Thanks engadget!]]>Sep 1st 2006 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/Sep 1st 2006 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.rarewares.org/files/mp4/mp4creator60.EP.zip.]]>Sep 1st 2006 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/
Which sucks.]]>Sep 1st 2006 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/
Not the same thing, but I wonder if it's the same creator as this?

myTunes Redux is awesome, and lets you wirelessly download files from other people's shared libraries without their knowledge. It works great. So I've heard. ]]>Sep 1st 2006 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/it's very good time.]]>Sep 1st 2006 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/Sep 1st 2006 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/Sep 1st 2006 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/Sep 1st 2006 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/
bob's solution is obviously more time efficient, if this program indeed runs in real time.]]>Sep 1st 2006 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/Sep 1st 2006 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/
What's so wrong with getting your own music from different sources with a better variable bit rate? Or is this just a 'In your face, Apple Corp.!' kind of thing?]]>Sep 1st 2006 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/graphical Windows app

Didn't you mean .NET app?]]>Sep 1st 2006 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/
You can wait a day or two for all of these bugs to get ironed out and someone will write a slick "all-in-one" solution to this in order to get geek cred.

What's the rush? Just don't upgrade iTunes and you can decide to do this whenever you want... perhaps in weeks when some great app is made instead of all this retardedness.]]>Sep 1st 2006 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/
I've kept one of my iTunes at 5.x and still use Jhymn for all of my music purchases on iTunes and wish for something that will do the same for iTunes 6.x

This is a step towards the right direction, but I can just see the cat/mouse game being played here at some point.

As for bob's question, the burn CD/re-rip back into MP3/AAC creates a second generation loss, which maybe can't be heard, but for anyone that cares about the overall sound of their music to any degree will not want to venture down this path.]]>Sep 1st 2006 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/Sep 1st 2006 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/"Anyone that cares about the overall sound of their music to any degree will not... "
use iTunes to download 128kbps drm-encumbered tracks.]]>Sep 1st 2006 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/I strip drm every time I don't purchase it. Lossless. Tangible back-ups. Thank u, come again.]]>Sep 1st 2006 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/
JD]]>Sep 1st 2006 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/
I agree, which is why 98% of my music ripping is done in a higher bit rate from CD. The 2% of the tracks I purchase from iTunes are those I can't find on CD or single tracks that I don't care to purchase the entire CD for.

For those songs, I hate to degrade the process even more by doing the burn to CD and re-rip method.]]>Sep 1st 2006 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/Sep 1st 2006 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/This "real time" solution doesn't work so well for my situation as some of these books are over 20 hours long. I would have to set up a seperate computer for just this project.]]>Sep 1st 2006 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/
Since Sound Recorder only records a minute at a time, you will need to provide a template that is longer than the sounds you want to record. You will only need to do this once. You can create one by opening a wav file and copy and paste it over itself to increase the length. To get the highest quality recording, select Properties from the File menu (with the template open). Click Convert Now and choose 44.100 kHz, 16 Bit, Stereo 172 kb/sec. Click OK. Close properties window. Save your template.

This will allow you to record anything that is played through your computer's speakers, including system sounds, so be sure to turn those off. it is best to do a test recording to make sure that your recording level is set appropriately. Watch the waves during a recording and make sure that they don't go to the edge of the window. If they do, lower the recording level (audio properties).]]>Sep 1st 2006 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://hymn-project.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=9565

Josh]]>Sep 1st 2006 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/
The best thing is to get your hands on a program like Cool Edit, record directly from the sound card, and then just save as MP3.]]>Sep 1st 2006 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/Sep 1st 2006 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/
Would be neat if I got soemthing other than an Ipod]]>Sep 1st 2006 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/Sep 1st 2006 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/Sep 2nd 2006 1:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/Sep 2nd 2006 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/Sep 2nd 2006 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/
You guys crack me up. You've been able to rip DRM off tracks by doing the soundcard/burn to cd thing right since the beginning (it even mentions the burn to cd thing in iTunes help file!), however this is pretty useless because you are /re-encoding a lossy track into another lossy format/. It's like saving a JPEG twice. It won't be any smaller file size, but the quality will be far worse. This is the same thing -- you will double the amount of lossy compression artifacts when you re-encode it. Hymn and this new solution are /lossless/ -- i.e., you aren't re-encoding them, you are just getting the original file (with the original quality), sans DRM. I know that lossy compression is hardly audiophile territory anyway, but why the hell would you want to make the audio quality any worse than it is anyway?

-Tommi]]>Sep 2nd 2006 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/
There are some bugs that happen every once in a while, but I would take fixing song titles over waiting for them to re-record in real time.

Tunebite, just turn on hi-speed digital dubbing at 4x and go to sleep. Wake up and have free unprotected music!

I use it for Napster, only legal loophole that I know of.]]>Sep 2nd 2006 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/Sep 2nd 2006 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/Sep 2nd 2006 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/Sep 2nd 2006 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/
I should add that I'm not the other Alex--the one who is clueless about the technical details of MP3 bitrates. :)]]>Sep 2nd 2006 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/]]>Sep 3rd 2006 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/Sep 3rd 2006 4:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/
Why would you want to buy less quality music for more money and then spend all this time removing DRM and converting etc...?

My time and hard earned dollars are worth more than these tools process!
]]>Sep 5th 2006 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/
but the cd from a used cd store at half the price, rip your songs and take the cd back and get some cash for it. it'll be better quality, and certainly cheaper. you might be out some time or convenience (if yer lazy) but if you want to stick it to the man, cut him out of the loop: stop giving him your money!!!

sure it's not as glamourous as this, but it is wayyy more effective. don't forget, they don't control the after market sales of any of their products.

goto www.eff.org and be enlightened.

cheers!
]]>Sep 6th 2006 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/
I then tried the same search on yahoo.com and got 4 links.

Anybody know why Google's search engine did not return any links to myFairUse6?

Dana
]]>Sep 6th 2006 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.eff.org!]]>Sep 6th 2006 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/Jan 8th 2007 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/mytunes-the-simplified-itunes-drm-stripper-for-windows/I found a virtual CD burning software named "NoteBurner" at

http://www.noteburner.com. It installs a virtual CD-RW burner on your PC, to

convert the music files, all you have to do is to select the default CD

burner to "NoteBurner CD-RW", then you click the "Burn Disc" button, this

software will do all the rest converting work for you.

As I tested, all the process is working very easy. Compared with other method

like recording, this one is fast and keep high quality in the converting

process. Highly recommended to who want to convert their music purchased

online.]]>Jan 14th 2007 10:54PM