The unusual case of a lunchtime post...

[andrewducker]

This article amply demonstrates why I will never, ever buy DRMed music.  Microsoft is switching its authentication servers off.  Which means that any music you bought from them is now stuck on the PCs they're authenticated on.  Which means that when those machines die you lose that music.

Frankly, Fuck That.

In conversation with cairmen yesterday, similar ideological reasons for my dislike of the iPhone came up.  It's shiny, and it's neat to play with, but frankly it's not so much nicer than other phones that I'm willing to put up with Apple's ridiculous licensing agreements.  I have a Nokia phone.  Anyone can write software for it.  I can install anything I damn well please.  I shall be continuing to support manufacturers who produce hardware like this.

Comments

[andrewducker]

How do you remove Apple's DRM?

[johanna-alice.livejournal.com]

You need a Mac authorised to play the track in question. This shouldn't be a problem as the friend you are proposing to get tracks from presumably has an iTunes account and you can have upto five computers authorised at one time...

Then you place a JPEG into iMovies, import the .M4P as a soundtrack to the movie then save as AIFF. Reimport the AIFF into iTunes and convert to .M4A.

I'm sure it is possible to automate the process as I got this method from poking around in a (non-functional) piece of software designed to do that very thing.