Comments on: Remove DRM protection from iTunes tracks with iMovie HD

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:20:06 +0000

Jeff
May 4, 2009 at 6:45 am
Same thing a problem here. Any luck?

Nope !
It’s a darn conundrum !!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:45:12 +0000

Same thing a problem here. Any luck?

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:59:03 +0000

Following your iMovie steps precisely ( after 1st simply trying to drag from iTunes “Purchased” to the desktop, then iMovie . . which got the same results as the next attempt ), I still get the drop-down window telling me to open iTunes and “authorize this computer” . . which it already is !
So what’s gets me beyond that wall !

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:08:56 +0000

Regarding Sirius, It is the best 15 bucks I could ever spend a month. Many years ago I purchased their first portable unit (50 hours stored when undocked) and loved it. It finally died and Sirius yelled at Best Buy to give me the (at the time latest Stiletto 100) for free. Best Buy finally gave in and just charged me a little bit for the cost difference, which (for some reason) Sirius reimbursed me for.
I used to spend 20-30 on iTunes for music and spend hours finding music on bittorrent, now if I hear a song I like, I smack the “love” button and the song is saved. No purchasing involved. It records the music constantly so I have a couple days worth of music recorded directly off the stations if I want to go that way, or I can play through the Library of loved songs. Or I can use the built in Satellite tuner or WiFi.
It is costly initial investment (sirius offers refurb units for dirt cheap ($100 for my 350 unit), but is funny to watch your friends stare (with envy) as you hit the pause button on live music to answer the phone. (think DVR for music. With no Tivo removing media at random times)

Oh, and they stream the music online for free when you have an account.

Bonus: all stiletto units have wifi and double as powerful wifi scanners.

By: Edward

Edward — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:22:05 +0000

I’m trying this same approach with movies, to remove the DRM from a show I purchased on iTunes, and it’s not working.

Anyone know how to do that?

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:11:49 +0000

DRM is still a major problem in the online music and video industry. I hate DRM, and Iâ€™m sure 99% of the people reading this agree with me – DRM sucks. The only benefit is for the record companies, so that their music cannot be shared on file sharing/BitTorrent websites. It brings the user absolutely no benefits, and many drawbacks – including limiting what you can do with your music/video in almost every way possible. Whether itâ€™s putting the file on your mobile phone, or wanting to use it on more than five computers. Well, it looks like 5thirtyone has a stunningly simple solution to your DRM problems.
I’ve found Melodycan software which seems to handle what I am looking for here – converting DRM protected MWA files to unprotected MP3 files. It looks like what i’m going to go with.

By: business

business — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:36:13 +0000

It works Thanks! It’s easier and there’s more available options using Windows, but just got a Mac and love it.

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:30:48 +0000

I’m with jessemoya, I don’t think anything of paying my Sirius sub anymore. I love the variety of music and it lets me listen to new groups that I would never have heard about otherwise. Go ahead and get it, you won’t be sorry and if you are, they’re very easy to cancel. They don’t harass you or anything (I know because I did this about a year ago to try XM. Came straight back to Sirius after a few months.)

By: blueas

blueas — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:52:58 +0000

As I payed for the DRM music file, why still limit?

And I found Daniusoft WMA MP3 Converter could convert may DRM video and audio in a high quality with fast conversion speed.
http://www.daniusoft.com/wma-mp3-converter.html

Is it legal to remove DRM?

By: Mac-A-Doodle » Quick Tip: Stripping DRM with iMovie

Mac-A-Doodle » Quick Tip: Stripping DRM with iMovie — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:52:03 +0000

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