http://stevemart.in/2009/01/31/remove-itunes-drm-protection/ My Family, My Work, and Me. Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://stevemart.in/2009/01/31/remove-itunes-drm-protection/comment-page-1/#comment-243 Steve Martin Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:30:05 +0000 http://stevemart.in/?p=242#comment-243 Well, the bitrate of the iTunes songs is pretty high to start with. When converted to a standard music CD, it reverts the track back to a WAV file. I am no expert on the conversion to MP3 from WAV but I always understood it to be more of a compression. Compressions can be uncompressed back to their original state. I know there is some loss, but if you start with a pretty high quality file, the chances of anyone noticing any loss is pretty unlikely. I don't buy many songs from iTunes because of the DRM protection but for the ones I have purchased, I burned and re-ripped and the resulting files sound fabulous. Well, the bitrate of the iTunes songs is pretty high to start with. When converted to a standard music CD, it reverts the track back to a WAV file. I am no expert on the conversion to MP3 from WAV but I always understood it to be more of a compression. Compressions can be uncompressed back to their original state. I know there is some loss, but if you start with a pretty high quality file, the chances of anyone noticing any loss is pretty unlikely. I don’t buy many songs from iTunes because of the DRM protection but for the ones I have purchased, I burned and re-ripped and the resulting files sound fabulous.

]]> http://stevemart.in/2009/01/31/remove-itunes-drm-protection/comment-page-1/#comment-242 Denny Wanlass Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:20:28 +0000 http://stevemart.in/?p=242#comment-242 That is one way to remove DRM but burning a lossy format to a CD and then re-ripping it degrades the quality of the music track somewhat. That is one way to remove DRM but burning a lossy format to a CD and then re-ripping it degrades the quality of the music track somewhat.

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