BurningThumb’s “DRM Dumpster” is the legal way to convert DRM tracks from your iTunes music library to MP3 files. DRM Dumpster uses a CD-RW and iTunes itself to convert all of your DRM music files to MP3 files that you can use with any music player.
Using DRM Dumpster is easy:
• Launch DRM Dumpster
• Click the Dump DRM button
• Insert a CD-RW
DRM Dumpster does the rest for you. When the operation is complete you will have a new playlist in iTunes that contains the MP3 files.
System Requirements:
– Mac OS X 10.2 or later
– A scriptable version of iTunes (DRM Dumpstrer was tested using iTunes 7)
– A CD-RW disk and CD Burner
More info and download link here
This can’t be “legal”.
–mAc
Hurray. I can play all my iTMS tracks on my new brown Zune.
And after two cycles of lossy compression, my new Zune will sound just like it looks… sh*tty!
first post:
is it really legal??
With Apple closing at $85.00 per share, has anyone calculated Apple to Dell recently? How big is the gulf? Thanks.
Peace.
I’m sure it’s as legal as iTunes is now. I’ll bet the reason for the CD is the program is simply doing what you can already do with iTuens: Burn a playlist and then import that playlist as mp3.
Slick way to automate the process, though.
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Sure it’s legal. You’ve always been able to legally burn a CD of your DRM-encoded music and then re-import the songs to remove the DRM. The program simply uses a script to automate the process using a re-writable CD.
Same process as before, just less work.
S L O W
and pointless
if you already paid. there is no point.
According to MarketWatch, the market cap of Apple is at $72.5B and Dull is at $58.13B. What I’d like to know is why has Dull gone up lately? Whaddya Whaddya?
BUT THIS IS LEAGAL
Because you are burning a CDRW then importing and reburning, a labouios task but this makes it easier
To answer an above poster’s question….
Market caps for Apple vs Dell:
A: $72.6 billion
D: $58.1 billion
No need of “DRM Dumpster”! Everybody can do that since the first version of iTunes and MacOS X !
umm… Jeff. Answer? Nosomush.
For future people who want to ask about AAPl market cap comparisons. It takes about two seconds to find it. fianance.yahoo.com and type in the ticker symbol, AAPL, DELL, GOOG, MSFT, whatever. Yahoo does the math for you and lists it on the first page, no degree in finance or algebra required.
eMax:
Pointless? Not so much. I can’t share my purchased music on the network at work. ITunes doesn’t allow it. I’ll be able to do so now more easily by converting the files into MP3.
It would be nice if the script is able to take a couple of thousand files and convert them over night when you’re not using the computer. If only there was a way to create a virtual CD-R it would be quite quiet as well
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This is still not as good as using Wiretap or Audio Hijack. You can even snag songs off of iTunes Radio, or anything that plays through your computer.
There is a straight line
from the act of people divulging DRM work-around hacks
to the DRM masters finding a way to cripple that hack.
I would argue that this is illegal, both the act of using the software and the software itself.
It’s very clear that the primary, if not sole use for this is to bypass digital copy protection. That in of itself makes both the act and the product illegal. (regardless of the fact that you bought the music or may be using it under otherwise fair-use).
This is despite the fact that it is legal to burn a CD from iTMS content and then re-import it back into the computer. The reason why this is not illegal is that you’re burning a CD without bypassing the copy protection. The protection system is allowing the burning of the CD, and importing it back into iTunes doesn’t break the law because at that point there is no copy protection.
With this software, there is no purpose to burning the CD other than to strip the DRM (again, that act is illegal).
***Note none of this is to say that I think it should be illegal, that I think DRM is a good thing, or that the DMCA isn’t completely retarded.
Bah.
Audio Hijack has been converting songs to MP3 since 2003 — no DA/AD — straight digital to hard disk, in whatever digital audio format you want.
Niffy
Maybe I have missed the point here, but as of now, you can only burn tracks that you have put on your iTunes library from any source <u>other</u> than ITMS. You cannot burn stuff you have bought from ITMS as MP3, at least not natively on the Mac.
As for whether it is legal, if yu have paid for the song on ITMS, there should be no difference to stuff you have ripped from a CD that you legally paid for.
Steves Job: “Maybe I have missed the point here, but as of now, you can only burn tracks that you have put on your iTunes library from any source other than ITMS. You cannot burn stuff you have bought from ITMS as MP3, at least not natively on the Mac.”
Of course you can.
Trying it now, not going good. Lot’s of EXC_BAD_ACCESS in iTunes 6.05.
If I update to iTunes 7, I lose Volume Logic and the original Coverflow.
It doesn’t work on my Danish OS’ed MacBook..
Doesn’t even locate any of my files!
Macslut sez: I would argue that this is illegal, both the act of using the software and the software itself.
It’s very clear that the primary, if not sole use for this is to bypass digital copy protection. That in of itself makes both the act and the product illegal. (regardless of the fact that you bought the music or may be using it under otherwise fair-use).
Well, illegal in the US, perhaps, boyo, and in fact, since it’s merely a mechanism for automating controls and actions already present in iTunes they’re going to have a real hard time explaining in court just exactly what protection mechanism was bypassed.
Seem to work better now in admin mode with auto log-off disabled.
Takes forever to locate DRMed songs though, then if it crashes it deletes all the sorted songs and starts all over again. Been better if it found a disk full, then burn/rip that. Then find another disk full and so on.
This program is really useful for huge collections, but I’m still in the sorting phase so far.
Make sure when it asks to burn the disk in the begining that the blue arrow option of mounting disk on desktop is selected. Burning and then ejecting the disk loses the song info stored in memory, it’s a audio cd, so the info is not on the disk. This is my experience from burning/ripping manually.
Manual method:
Create Smart Playlist of all DRM music
Set burning option to match cd-r ability
Set import MP3 at higher bitrate of 192 to match the higher quality but lower bit rate of AAC.
Turn off auto-eject after burning.
Create Playlists with 14 or 15 DRM songs each
Open Disk Utility and quick erase CD-R if necessary
Burn a playlist to cd-r, when finished it should mount on desktop, click it in the Finder and then click back in iTunes to mount it there. The track info should be preserved, now rip. When finished Disk Utility quick erase and repeat for next DRM playlist.
Of course one should set the same bit rate 192 MP3 import options for this DRMDumpster program.
Once all the DRM has been stripped, remove the orginal DRM files to backup and run a program called MP3Gain. What this will do is alter the Mp3 files so the volume is nearly the same for all the songs from different albums. Something iTunes fails to do, making horrible cd compilations.
A good program to use is Volume Logic, as it automagically engineers the music to sound professional. Unfortunatly it doesn’t alter the Mp3 files, so perhaps ripping the audio channel with something like Audio Hijack on select playlists will make nice compilations.
Enjoy.