Convert protected music file?

[longway80]

I have some music purchased from iTunes and want to use it with my home video. Searched the internet, and found this guide:

Convert Protected Music Files to Plain MP3

Did anybody tried this software and did it work?

I was suggested to burn the protected music to CD-RW and then rip back. If this software works, it may save me some disc.

[Richard_G]

Can you play them back on your pc? If so, just open Windows Sound Recorder, select Wave as your source, click record and then play back your music. The Sound Recorder file can then be saved as a WAV file.

[AlanHK]

Try hymn.

[mats.hogberg]

Last time I looked, Hymn (jHymn) only worked with iTunes stuff bought using iTunes 4 or earlier. May have changed recently tho.

/Mats

[Soopafresh]

http://www.tunebite.com/en/tunebite/index.html


QT Fairuse Works with iTunes 7-

http://hymn-project.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1553&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

[olyteddy]

TotalRecorder works too. It can re-record 'protected content' pretty much as fast as you can stream it to it & re-encode the output (if you want). As an example, Audible books re-encode to 80 Kb MP3 at about 9X on the rig in my details.

[Richard137]

First of all, the writing CD's procedure si over-rated and it takes a lot of steps to be made, when on the other hand you can have a software that does it all for you with just a few mouse clicks. Not to mention the quality loss in this procedure, burning and ripping cd's.
Hymn it's not working for quite a while now. They tried to release some version that it's using Tunebite drivers but only works with iTunes.
Total Recorder works pretty ok, although I had some fights with it, when I searched myself for a converting software. And it's not even close to how fast TUnebite works.

I would say Tunebite is the best after all these considerations for your daily converting/getting around protections routine. And it's all perfectly legal.

[MJA]

TotalRecorder works fine with itunes

[olyteddy]

Have you tried accelerated mode in TotalRecorder?

[kisrum]

Not to mention the quality loss in this procedure, burning and ripping cd's.

Really? How? I've never noticed a quality loss in burning Itunes to CD and then ripping back to .wavs and converting to mp3s . I think the loss of quality comes in not buying the CD in the first place

[CrayonEater]

I think the loss of quality comes in not buying the CD in the first place

Succinctly said, and true. CD audio is in raw digital format, not a compressed, lossy format like MP3. It's the best format you can get that's widely available. If you can avoid lossy formats altogether - stick with WAV or some lossless compression - you will not suffer quality loss during conversion to other lossless formats. But data and quality is lost during the conversion to a lossy format (be definition, that's what a lossy format is), and any quality losses are magnified if you later convert yet again to another lossy format.

[kisrum]

But data and quality is lost during the conversion to a lossy format (by definition, that's what a lossy format is), and any quality losses are magnified if you later convert yet again to another lossy format.

Got it, thanks. I typically take mp4 and convert to cd audio for personal use in the car since I don't even have an mp3 player yet. Recompressing to mp3 would have further loss issues but in a Honda Civic at 70 mph, in my sand-blasted ears, I'd never hear it.

I've used goldwave to capture one of the notorious Sony root kit CDs for my daughter, so she could play it on her computer. Yes I had to use the removal tools to get it off of mine.

[Schmier]

Take a look at this prog - SPAM
It re-records iTunes files saving them as unprotected mp3 / wav files. And the best thing - keeping the tags!

You are in breach of the forum rules and are being banned for spamming.
/ Moderator mats.hogberg

[FrancisWard]

SPAMMER

[Alex_ander]

I wonder, will Graphedit load the decoders for a DRM'd file? If it will, there's a precise way of writing audio to wav (by connecting WavDest+FileWriter DS filters instead of audio rendering device). This should be better in quality than capturing sound (e.g. with TotalRecorder).

[olyteddy]

TotalRecorder replaces your audio drivers, intercepting the audio stream from the de-coding program (iTunes, Audible Manager, etc.) and allowing you to save that stream or re-encode it. You can see what format a stream is and optimize your recording based on that (i.e. PCM 44KHz 16 bit Stereo, PCM 22KHz 8 bit Mono, etc.) The latest versions also allow you to choose which application to capture, allowing background transcoding. I've been using it for several years now and haven't had any problems so far.