Remove iTunes DRM

[Surely]

I have spent THOUSANDS of dollars of music. My library is at a lofty 1.5 terabytes. I am NOT going to manually burn them to a disc. Sorry!

Are you actually saying that you bought 1.5TB of stuff on iTunes Music Store. (Conservatively 200 songs/GB = 300,000 songs = lots and lots of $$$$) and neglected to read the Terms of Service that spell out the rights you have to the media you paid for.

Something is exaggerated here.

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According to balamw's conservative calculations, and your comments, it looks more like you spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at the iTunes Music Store. I think that you can afford to ditch the puny Archos 605 30GB player and buy a massive 160 GB iPod Classic....... or maybe not, after spending that much money in iTunes.

Or maybe you should call Apple and tell them about the hundreds of thousands of dollars you gave them, and maybe they'll give you a free iPod and use you in some sort of new marketing campaign, calling you the Ultimate iTunes Store Shopper? Apple's version of Subway's Jared?
Or maybe you should have saved all the money you spent on music and bought a house instead?

/yeah, that was mean, wasn't it?

 

[Much Ado]

^ Mean, but true.

It's enough to fill over 187 iPhones

 

[milo]

It is true, the RIAA is now attacking people who rip their music for digital players.

That's creepy...and yet, the only reason he got caught was because he was sharing those files with P2P.

How exactly would the RIAA go after you for ripping your CDs assuming you're not sharing them?

How old are you?

They scanned his drive, sent him a list of all the "illegal" music on his drive an sent him a bill for $14,000 so settle out of court.

And how did they scan his drive? He was running some sort of p2p software, right? He got busted for sharing, not for ripping cds.

And this whole thread seems pretty fishy...1.5 TB? And why buy so much from iTunes if you're not planning on sticking with iPods?

Personally, now that Amazon has their store, I don't buy much with DRM. iTunes plus if it's available (and not much more than amazon), otherwise amazon if they have it, otherwise I don't buy it.

 

[ltldrummerboy]

QTfairuse6 is the only free program out there that does the job well. Unfortunately, it's Windows only. Not a problem for me, because I have my iTunes library mirrored on an XP machine nearby.

 

[gnasher729]

I have spent THOUSANDS of dollars of music. My library is at a lofty 1.5 terabytes. I am NOT going to manually burn them to a disc. Sorry!

Since your library is 1.5 Terabytes, and iTunes songs at 128 KBit/second are about 4 MB on the average, that would make your library about 375,000 songs for which you paid about $375,000.

If you paid that much for music, then should pay for professional help instead of posting on MacRumors.

 

[balamw]

Since your library is 1.5 Terabytes, and iTunes songs at 128 KBit/second are about 4 MB on the average, that would make your library about 375,000 songs for which you paid about $375,000.

If you paid that much for music, then should pay for professional help instead of posting on MacRumors.

I was being conservative and estimated 5 MB per song when I did this calculation a few days ago in this thread.

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[Eidorian]

¿Don't buy music with DRM?

I'll stick with DRM free downloads or eBaying CDs for $4-7 new.

¡Lé Gasp!

 

[jim.arrows]

Nothing he said was inconsistent...

He said he spent thousands on music AND his library is 1.5TB; he never said he bought 1.5TB of music via iTunes. Even if he only spent $1,000 on iTunes, I can still understand him wanting to automate the process to avoid having to burn & rip 1,000 songs... don't know why everyone's giving him such a hard time, although he did have somewhat of a crappy attitude in a few replies.

 

[Cleverboy]

don't know why everyone's giving him such a hard time, although he did have somewhat of a crappy attitude in a few replies.

Agreed on both counts.

~ CB

 

[solvs]

although he did have somewhat of a crappy attitude in a few replies.

That's why. I don't get why some people come here asking for something like this, then get uppity with the replies, especially the ones that are trying to help. With that kind of attitude, less people want to help, even if the question wasn't what this was.

 

[balamw]

That's why. I don't get why some people come here asking for something like this, then get uppity with the replies, especially the ones that are trying to help. With that kind of attitude, less people want to help, even if the question wasn't what this was.

Bingo.

It's not like there aren't plenty of other threads about this topic here and elsewhere to be found easily by Google. The OP is probably one of those folks who assume that anything in the iTunes library is DRMed. (hence the 1.5 TB library comments).

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