Stupid question - Metadata in iTunes songs?

[FSMBP]

I got somewhat of a stupid question about songs downloaded from iTunes.

I know that even though songs are DRM-free but each song has metadata about the user who downloaded it.

If I re-encode the song, such as making it into a .mp3, does that remove the metadata? Thanks for any responses.

 

[Jolly Jimmy]

I believe that re-encoding them would remove such information (if it's there)

But beware of the further loss of quality your already compressed songs will suffer if you re-compress them.

 

[sbking]

You can remux the m4a file into a mp4 with YAMB, then rename the mp4 extension to m4a. This also removes the metadata without re-encoding the file.

 

[FSMBP]

Ok, thanks guys!