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is there any app to remove drm on a song

For iTunes' Fair Play DRM, the easiest legal way is to burn the song to audio CD and then reimport it from that CD. Note that you will very likely degrade the sound quality by doing this, but not necessarily by very much.

to burn it then reimport wont work

We won't be offering any non-legal methods. Google may be your friend.

has anyone else noticed that the people who post here trying to scam something always use sexualized user names?

makes you appreciate Freud, don't it? :D

Are you burning an audio CD or a data CD? Does the CD play in a regular CD player (not computer optical drive)?

...And when you copy it back from the CD make sure your Import Preferences are on AAC and equal to or greater to the original bitrate to minimize any degrading.

DRM Dumpster will automate this process for you by using a rewritable CD.

Free Please

I think you need to answer J. Christopher's question before anyone can try to help you further.

i just want to remove drm from a song

We all got that on square 1. Read J Christopher's question and answer it.

Then you need to follow the follow the instructions given here. iTunes is by far the easiest way to burn an audio CD.

i dont know what is the difference

audio = a music CD you buy in a store
data = files like on your computer

Audio CD is exactly that, CDs that contain audio that are played in every boombox, walkman, car or home CD player.

Data CD is used for backing up files regardless of their format, codec or bult-in encryption.

How to check: In iTunes go to Preferences => Advanced tab => Burning tab => Disc Format: Audio CD.

im trying to burn an audio cd

but i also want to remove drm

This is getting irritating now. We know you are trying to burn an Audio CD. You mentioned that in your initial post. You have yet to reply to previous questions and state whether you have checked your setting.

No one can assist you if you aren't more forthcoming.

What Do I Need To Be Forthcoming About I Just Want To Remove Drm from a song

Assuming one buys an album on iTunes...

One burns said album to an audio CD.

Then one re-imports said CD back into iTunes.

Now one has doubles of the album's songs in iTunes.. one set that is DRM protected directly from the iTunes store, and one set that is not DRM protected because it's an import from an audio CD.

Which part isn't working?

You were informed that burning an Audio CD of iTunes Store purchased tracks will remove the DRM. You said you couldn't burn a CD with iTunes, which is very simple to accomplish. You were then asked what kind of CD you are burning and given instructions of checking the settings. You have not responded on whether these are set correctly or described the process and what issues you are having with burning a simple Audio CD.

Buy a CD with the music on it and import it. If you don't want DRM then don't get DRM protected files. :rolleyes:

You need to answer requests for clarification when you ask for help and are not clear about exactly what you want to do and why you want to do it.

If you don't want to be participate properly in these forums, then please go elsewhere.

here is a quote from a web site describing itunes crap

Why not just burn your music onto CDs and then re-rip the CDs?

Burning your iTMS (iTunes Music Store) purchases to CDs and then re-ripping those CDs results in either a loss of sound quality, or, if you want to avoid that loss, having to rip your music back as much, much bigger files using formats like WAV, AIFF, or Apple Lossless.

Without diving into too much technical detail, it's important to know that audio formats like AAC and MP3 are forms of lossy compression. The sound you get from an AAC or MP3 file isn't a perfect replica of the original audio signal from which such a file was created. Ideally the results are so close to the original that most listeners either can't hear any differences at all, or if they can, they don't find the changes in sound quality very objectionable.

When you burn an AAC file to CD and then re-rip the CD as AAC or MP3, the sound you end up listening to will have gone through a lossy compression process twice. Those losses can add up, taking what were only mild or even unnoticeable deviations from the original sound after the first phase of compression and making those deviations much more noticeable and objectionable. This is especially true if you try to take music at a low bit rate like 128 kbps (what Apple uses for iTMS) and try to compress back down to the same low bit rate.

If you ever do end up having to burn and re-rip (the day is almost certainly coming when JHymn won't work, at least for a while, because Apple has updated their DRM), I recommend re-ripping your iTMS purchases as at least 192 kbps AAC files, or VBR (variable bit rate) MP3 files with an equivalent or better bit rate, in order to minimize the negative effects of a second generation of lossy compression.

Apart from sound quality issues, burning music to CD and re-ripping is slow, inconvenient, and, unless you're using and re-using the same re-writable CD over and over again, wasteful of CDs.

i also want to keep the data and mac id

Someone Please Help

You've already got all the help that you are going to get in these forums.
Please read again the answers in posts #2 and #4 for the legal and possibly illegal methods.

As I don't see this progressing further, I'm going to close this thread.
Please don't ask about this again. These forums do not support illegal or even slightly shady activities.

Thread closed.