Free (in more ways than one) iTunes music

Mar 22, 2005 22:18

Does anyone here buy music from Apple's iTunes Music Store (iTMS)?

I don't, because their music is encrypted in a form that's both incompatible with Linux and most non-Apple players, and too restrictive for my taste even within those parameters ( Read more... )

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one down rfunk March 23 2005, 13:38:27 UTC
Emailed to your Gmail account.

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ceolnamara March 23 2005, 10:01:53 UTC
Hmm, could I have one of them?

And is there any way to change the format of the encoding? I got some stuff from my dad's computer before I left not realzing that the format is murderous.

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two down rfunk March 23 2005, 14:20:42 UTC
Emailed to your OSU address.

The only way I know to change the encoding once it's downloaded with iTunes is to use iTunes to burn it to a CD, then rip the CD. Of course you lose quality that way since it's lossy compression.

Or maybe use that Linux program to grab the music before iTunes encrypts it.

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