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Downloading music from iTunes

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JDN

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I've never used iTunes to download music because i don't like the idea of my music being trapped on the computer. I was looking for information on the iTunes website but i couldn't find what i was looking for.

If i buy music from iTunes can i buy it in a way so i can burn it to CD and use it in my car etc? I know about DRM etc but i just wondered.
 
JDN said:
I've never used iTunes to download music because i don't like the idea of my music being trapped on the computer. I was looking for information on the iTunes website but i couldn't find what i was looking for.

If i buy music from iTunes can i buy it in a way so i can burn it to CD and use it in my car etc? I know about DRM etc but i just wondered.
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You can burn it to an infinite number of CDs and iPods but you can only have 5 computers authorised to play the file at any time. It sounds limiting but infact there is no real limit to yourself. Its not as if you need to play the file on 5 different computers at the same time is it?

The DRM is to stop you passing the file on to your mates and then they do the same and so on.
 
Not only can you burn a song to a cd, but then you could rip that cd back into itunes as an mp3 and now you have non-DRM mp3 file of the same song.
 
The downside of burining the song and ripping it again is that you are bound to lose some of the audio quality in the process (and the audio quality of iTMS music isn't that great in the first place).
 
MacAnkka said:
The downside of burining the song and ripping it again is that you are bound to lose some of the audio quality in the process (and the audio quality of iTMS music isn't that great in the first place).
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This cannot be overemphasized.

If you do re-import in this fashion, don't waste your disk space with Lossless-- it won't magically restore any quality that was lost by the original compression. Go for 192 kbit MP3 or AAC.
 
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