Not Yet Rated Remove protection from itunes files

#  Jan 09, 2007 at 4:58 PM

Join Date: Jan 09, 2007 Post Count: 24   Kosmokramer User Options View All Posts By Kosmokramer View Kosmokramer's Stats     Not sure if this post would go in here. As you all know if you have itunes music that you purchased from itunes that those files will not transfer to your zune b/c they are "protected" or "m4p" files. Well not any longer there are plenty of programs now that will remove that protection and allow the files to be played on your zune. I currently use "SoundTaxi" it was a free trial but cost about $15 to own, and it has been well worth it.

#  Jan 09, 2007 at 5:33 PM

Join Date: Dec 20, 2006 Post Count: 234   Zune User User Options View All Posts By Zune User View Zune User's Stats     Awesome KosmoKramer. Thanks for the tip! :yes:

#  Jan 12, 2007 at 4:21 PM

Join Date: Jan 12, 2007 Post Count: 223   taiarain User Options View All Posts By taiarain View taiarain's Stats     We've been converting everything downloaded from iTunes to mp3 anyway so I had no problems loading my Zune. Now, I just have to rip all my CD's.

#  Jan 18, 2007 at 5:07 AM

Join Date: Jan 16, 2007 Post Count: 15   FourBear User Options View All Posts By FourBear View FourBear's Stats     This would be really useful for me, since almost all my songs are already in iTunes.

#  Jan 25, 2007 at 3:33 PM

Join Date: Jan 12, 2007 Post Count: 223   taiarain User Options View All Posts By taiarain View taiarain's Stats     Are Rhapsody and Napster worth it? I thought Napster was subscription based. Wouldn't it be great if everyone just sucked it up and offered mp3 versions of all their stuff?

#  Jan 25, 2007 at 7:35 PM

Join Date: Jan 25, 2007 Post Count: 71   Schwarz User Options View All Posts By Schwarz View Schwarz's Stats     Schwarz;2002 said: I know this is the perfect solution... doh! I meant to say, "I know this ISN'T the perfect solution. I personally think the Rhapsody subscription account is worth it. I've been keeping my whole family's mp3 players filled with current (and classic) tunes for over a year. Subscription content is definetly not for those trying to build a music library. But, with my Rhapsody subscription...I have (access to) a bigger library than any one individual could possibly own. I plan on signing up for a Zune Marketplace subscription as soon as my 2-week free trial runs out. ...I'm thinking about dropping Rhapsody as I now have a Zune, my wife is using a Shuffle-G2,...and for my daughter...well, I might just have to buy her a Zune of her own onatello:

#  Jan 27, 2007 at 7:18 PM

Join Date: Jan 12, 2007 Post Count: 223   taiarain User Options View All Posts By taiarain View taiarain's Stats     Once you cancel the subscription, you lose everything you have, right? I'm much more of a permanent library building girl, myself.

#  Jan 25, 2007 at 2:48 AM

Join Date: Jan 25, 2007 Post Count: 71   Schwarz User Options View All Posts By Schwarz View Schwarz's Stats     I know this is the perfect solution, but if you have purchased content that is DRM/I-Tunes protected content, burn the content to CD (which you've paid for the rights to do), then rip the tracks into your Zune library. This might take awhile if you've purchased alot of music from Rhapsody/Napster/I-Tunes, but the benefit would be that you'd have a copy on CD if anything ever happened to your digital media. :clap: Happy Zune'ing!!!

#  Feb 22, 2007 at 2:02 AM

Join Date: Feb 20, 2007 Post Count: 104   happy2bg33k User Options View All Posts By happy2bg33k View happy2bg33k's Stats     Schwarz;2002 said: I know this is the perfect solution, but if you have purchased content that is DRM/I-Tunes protected content, burn the content to CD (which you've paid for the rights to do), then rip the tracks into your Zune library. This might take awhile if you've purchased alot of music from Rhapsody/Napster/I-Tunes, but the benefit would be that you'd have a copy on CD if anything ever happened to your digital media. :clap: Happy Zune'ing!!! This works, except that now you have the artist's CD quality audio encoded to AAC (lossy) from iTunes, burned to CD, then re-encoded to mp3 or wma or whatever (lossy), so you have now lost even more sound quality. Unless you import the tunes onto the Zune from the CD in some sort of lossless format, which I'm not sure the Zune supports. Apple lossless is great, except it eats up disk space really quick.

#  Feb 28, 2007 at 10:06 PM

Join Date: Feb 28, 2007 Post Count: 15   eventrdr User Options View All Posts By eventrdr View eventrdr's Stats     I've used SoundTaxi too. I've also had a good experience with TuneBite. Pretty much does the same thing as SoundTaxi. It's nice being able to "free" locked music that I've bought.