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 11/19/2007 02:07:38 AM · #1
Sorry for putting this in a photography forum, but I know there's some smart people here in other areas.

My son's birthday party is tomorrow and we rented a bowling alley, and I bought a bunch of kid songs on Itunes to play on my Personal Media player, an Archos 160Gb 605 WiFi. I bought a plug-in for the device to (what I thought) be able to play the AAC format of the Itunes songs that I bought, come to find out it won't play "protected" AAC files, just free Podcasts or free songs (which would be nice later on). So I'm stuck with about 30 kid songs on my computer that I probably wont ever play, and only a handful of Mp3's made from cd's to play at his party. No transfer option to this device in Itunes.

So I was wondering if there was a way to convert the AAC files to Mp3 format to play at his party tomorrow, even though they're "protected." I understand the legal limitations of copyrighted music, but it seems silly that I can only play songs that I purchased on an Ipod or in Itunes, or am I missing something? Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you! I'm going to bed soon, but will check any responses and reply in the morning. Thanks again.
 11/19/2007 02:14:54 AM · #2
burn it onto a disk from iTunes, then reimport it (into iTunes, or whatever program you'd like).

Make sure your settings are set to import it at mp3.

It might take you 2 cd's. But it will work.
 11/19/2007 02:18:07 AM · #3
Ooh cool, thank you very much! I'll give it a shot!
 11/19/2007 09:01:17 AM · #4
David is absolutely correct. If an audio file has DRM on it, the best thing is to make an audio CD and then re-rip it to an MP3. Technically, you will lose some audio quality, but under most circumstances you will not hear a difference. You would have to be using high quality playback devices and headphones to tell. There are programs out there to crack apples DRM, but it's a cat and mouse game and it may or may not work at the moment.

Just make sure when you re-rip it, you do it at 128 Kbps. If you resample lower than that, the human ear can often tell. From 128 to 256 I am hard pressed to tell any difference, and that is with headphones on.

I have been purchasing from Itunes for a few years, and I do not use an IPod, so this method is what I have been doing. It's called the "analog hole" and the media companies would love to plug it up.

I am now buying my music from Amazon, which is offering 256 KbpsMP3's without any DRM on them.

Message edited by author 2007-11-19 09:04:56.
 11/19/2007 12:15:37 PM · #5
Thanks for all the advice. I got it with your help. I got to thinking about the "analog hole", and instead of recording to cd I hooked rca cables to the sound input on the DVR dock for the Archos and recorded directly onto it in WAV format. So now I'll just convert to MP3. Thanks so much for your help.
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