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    Posted: 16 Jan 2009 at 2:13pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7832396.stm

I find this hard to believe.

Here's what I'd like to see:

* Music available in multiple formats (including MP3)
* HIGH BIT RATE (128 kbps on iTunes is poor. 256 kbps is better, but it needs to be AT LEAST 320 kbps to match CDs).
* GET RID OF DRM!

If they did that, they'd find that music piracy would fall. Despite DRM being removed from most of iTunes now, how can I convert them to MP3 so I can put the tracks on my mobile?

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I brought a song on Itunes the other day but its write protected so i can't put it on my mobile, gutted. Unhappy
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Icudan, iTunes will let you make a CD out of your song, then rip the song back from the CD to your computer with Windows media player, no DRMBig%20smile.

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Originally posted by mark.hudson6 mark.hudson6 wrote:

Icudan, iTunes will let you make a CD out of your song, then rip the song back from the CD to your computer with Windows media player, no DRMBig%20smile.

* cough * What he said * cough *

There's another more direct method, but I'll let you guess what.

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Thanks chaps, seems so simple now, don't know why i couldn't  think of that, cheers. Wink
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Burning to audio and then re-ripping will obviously give you loss though. If you can find the right tools (as Vulcan hints at) then you can strip the drm from the original.
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