drhdylan88
Mar 17, 2007, 04:31 PM
If anyone doesnt already know this...you can use imovie to remove drm from itunes music-but it's very time-consuming. BUT, if anyone was to, say, make a workflow that could follow the process and then replace the old file...;) ;)
(Here are the instructions, just to make things easy):
"To remove the FairPlay protection from a purchased song, open up iMovie and start a new project. Now click on the Audio button, and drag any protected song from the song list onto the audio portion of the timeline. iMovie will then proceed to convert the song for use in the project. After iMovie has finished converting the song, click on the Photos button and drag a photo onto the movie portion of the timeline. (As of version 5.0, iMovie requires some sort of visuals to be present before exporting the project. Earlier versions did not have this requirement.)
After the photo finishes rendering, go to the File menu and click on Share. Click on the QuickTime tab and under the 'Compress Movie for' drop-down, select Expert Settings and then click the Share button.
A 'Save exported file as' dialog box will pop up. Under the Export drop-down menu, select the Sound to AIFF option, name the file as desired, and save the file to your desired location. After a couple of minutes of converting, you will have a DRM-free AIFF file. Take that file and import it into iTunes converting it to AAC, MP3, of whatever format your heart desires."
-http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060725200656470 , macosxhints.com
PS- Im trying to do this myself...but will probably fail miserably....also, does anybody know a 3rd-party application (preferably free) that would do this? (That would work too)
(Here are the instructions, just to make things easy):
"To remove the FairPlay protection from a purchased song, open up iMovie and start a new project. Now click on the Audio button, and drag any protected song from the song list onto the audio portion of the timeline. iMovie will then proceed to convert the song for use in the project. After iMovie has finished converting the song, click on the Photos button and drag a photo onto the movie portion of the timeline. (As of version 5.0, iMovie requires some sort of visuals to be present before exporting the project. Earlier versions did not have this requirement.)
After the photo finishes rendering, go to the File menu and click on Share. Click on the QuickTime tab and under the 'Compress Movie for' drop-down, select Expert Settings and then click the Share button.
A 'Save exported file as' dialog box will pop up. Under the Export drop-down menu, select the Sound to AIFF option, name the file as desired, and save the file to your desired location. After a couple of minutes of converting, you will have a DRM-free AIFF file. Take that file and import it into iTunes converting it to AAC, MP3, of whatever format your heart desires."
-http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060725200656470 , macosxhints.com
PS- Im trying to do this myself...but will probably fail miserably....also, does anybody know a 3rd-party application (preferably free) that would do this? (That would work too)
