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.