Way to burn a virtual audio-cd?

[latichever]

Is there a way to "burn" a vitual audio cd to a hard drive?

I want to burn cds of my itune library and then rip them so I can remove the protection and play them on an mp3 player.

If I could do some kind of virtual audio cd, it would save me the use of physical cds.

If I can do this, is there any size limitation to the virtual cd?

And if I cannot do this, could I use physical dvds to make the functional equivalent of audio cds, but dvd sized?

(I have roxio easy media creator 7, in case this program could help me do any of the above. I'd check it out on that software myself, but I had to move my computer and the dvd burner isn't hooked up yet.)

Thanks.

[jagabo]

CD-RW?

[latichever]

CD-RW?

thanks for your response but what are you saying with cd-rw?

[mats.hogberg]

Burn your iTunes lib to CD-RW, rip, erase the CD-RW, burn again, rip, erase, burn, rip...
If you're using Nero, try burning to the Image Drive as .nrg image, that you can mount with daemon tools.

/Mats

[mats.hogberg]

..or desinfect your iTunes downloads (remove DRM) with myFairTunes, and just convert them straight to mp3.

/Mats

[latichever]

Before posting this question I did a bit of research about drm removal programs.

jhymn does work with 6.0 And CNET comments about soundtaxi and some others scare me off with tales of crashes, blue screens,etc.

Is myfairtunes stable and reliable?

Or to get back to one of my original questions can you do the functional equivalent of an audio cd with a dvd?

[mats.hogberg]

can you do the functional equivalent of an audio cd with a dvd?

No.

/Mats

[olyteddy]

Back when Pepsi was giving away iTunes, I used Total Recorder to convert them to MP3. Worked pretty good, too. You just let iTunes decode and uncompress the music & TR intercepts the audio before it gets to the soundcard. Using TR's accelerated mode, the speed to convert to MP3 (or OGG or FLAC or WMA) is nearly as quick as ripping from a CD. I use LAME set to VBR 64 to 224 K and get the optimal bit rate for most sources that way. You could also use any audio recorder such as Audacity, but that is usually real time only.