3rd Generation iPod Nano write support?

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Mon Mar 16 20:15:31 UTC 2009


On 03/14/2009 02:17 PM, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> 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. 
> 

You might want to have a look at the links I provided.






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