Anyone know how to break iTunes 6.0 DRM?

[Ishamael]

I want to play iTunes songs on my Zen mp3 player and cannot do so because of Apple's lame DRM. Anyone know away around this?

I looked into JHymn, but they can't yet crack 6.0 iTunes DRM.

[Oracle]

Buy an iPod?

[Ishamael]

Buy an iPod?

But that wouldn't be breaking it, would it?

Besides, I want to be able to play the stuff on any machine, including non-iPod machines, non-iTunes machines, etc. I've got a Zen mp3 player, but I hadn't considered the Apple DRM until after I bought it.

[Nev]

Get a good iron mallet. Nothing breaks stuff like a good iron mallet.

[Ishamael]

Get a good iron mallet. Nothing breaks stuff like a good iron mallet.

Anyone know where I can get a good iron mallet?

[Agent 57]

Getting back on topic, I'm reasonably sure that you can get past any music DRM by burning the tracks as an audio CD and then just re-ripping them as normal, non-DRMed MP3s.

At least, I've done that before. Might be a bit of a waste/take forever if you have a large collection, tho.

[Lox]

If that actually works.... then you could just burn CDs as images on your hard drive and then mount the image on a cdrom emulator and rip them from that state..... then you wouldn't be wasting any CDs.

Good idea.

[Ishamael]

If that actually works.... then you could just burn CDs as images on your hard drive and then mount the image on a cdrom emulator and rip them from that state..... then you wouldn't be wasting any CDs.

I just burned them to CD and converted them back to mp3. So annoying. If I unlazy myself and find a CD emulator, maybe I'll whip up a script to automate this.

[Kupek]

That's a solution, but you're introducing yet another level of lossy compression, so the quality will go down.

[SineSwiper]

Getting back on topic, I'm reasonably sure that you can get past any music DRM by burning the tracks as an audio CD and then just re-ripping them as normal, non-DRMed MP3s.

But, but, but...that would be using analog output! God forbid that the simplest method of getting rid of DRM is to just re-record the sound. That's unimpossible.

Funny that people are worrying about absolute quality when they are a lossy compression in the first place.