3rd Generation iPod Nano write support?

Hal Burgiss hal at burgiss.net
Sat Mar 14 21:17:36 UTC 2009


On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:35:22AM -0700, Ray Parrish wrote:
> Not so fast! I recently read an article on PC magazine onlne about how 
> to close user accounts with many online services,. In the article they 
> claim that if you first burn those mp3's to CD as audio files [which 
> involves converting them to CD music file types] and then rip the 
> resulting CD back to mp3 format files, it legally removes the DRM from 
> them. They were specifically talking about Itunes at that point in the 
> article.

There are several issues here. First, I've never seen mp3's from
iTunes. They are all m4a or somesuch format. If you burn those to cd,
they won't play. They have to be converted first. AFAIK, you can
convert the non-DRM (the newer stuff) to mp3's, but not the older DRM
stuff. 

-- 
Hal





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