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Old 11-23-2008, 10:16 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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So I've come to notice that I can't exactly share my music that I download from Apple.. Hypothetically speaking, if I were to become sick of buying over-priced iPods can I still keep my music that I've downloaded from iTunes and put them on another MP3 player?
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Old 11-23-2008, 10:27 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Hello,

No, because they are DRM protected.

The only current solution would be to burn your music to an audio CD or to a virtual disc drive, and rip the songs to a DRM free format such as MP3. However, this will be time consuming if you have a lot of protected music files.
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Hrm.. well thank you

You wouldnt happen to have any solutions, would you? I know after this iTouch of mine dies I'd rather shy away from another expensive iPod.. but if all my music is stuck with Apple..

Should I subscribe to another music downloading source and just import from there?
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You would have to find a DRM Free source. I know that Zune with Microsoft is having some offers with that. Subscribe with them and get 10 songs a month while you have yoru subscription DRM Free.

There are ways to remove DRM but we can not discuss that here. It falls under the Keep things legal rule.
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most song from itunes are not drm protected anymore. they did away with that last year. but a few are. if it's an m4a file it's not, but a m4p file is. they just refunded me my money on paris album because it was drm and they didn't warn me in advance
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Thanks for the input guys

What music subscriptions (if any) do you guys use? If I'm not mistaken, I believe there is one for unlimited downloading for 15 bucks a month? Or am I flat out wrong?
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