Vanguard382 Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 I need help really bad!!! Well i bought music from itunes a few times and have like 100 or more songs from them... The only probelm is it asks me to authorize my account to listen to them. I try and say you can only authorize it to 5 computers. The only problem is i have only ever authorized it to my computer but have reformated so i guess it thinks that is a diffrent computer... So i am suck with a bunch of music which i can not listen to... Any one know a way i can fix this problem!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators rridgely Posted October 25, 2005 Moderators Share Posted October 25, 2005 I have heard of this happening to a few people. I think the only thing you can do is call apple and plead your case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanguard382 Posted October 25, 2005 Author Share Posted October 25, 2005 lol.... hope that works any way of making it so apple does not cotrol that music like decrypt it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators rridgely Posted October 25, 2005 Moderators Share Posted October 25, 2005 The only way I know of is burning a cd and then reripping it. I'm sure if you looked around you could find a program that strips the copy protection (illegal). I haven't seen one though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarun Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 If he bought it, he owns it and I believe that would be legal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanguard382 Posted October 25, 2005 Author Share Posted October 25, 2005 ha i did it i search the forums and found a way to go into my account and just hit a button which deauthoirzed all the computers now everything is prefect. so i f any one ever has this problem just go here http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/musics.../authorization/ It was simpler then i was hoping.... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr81 Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 Itunes are you mad/loaded, buy music from rusky site like allofmp3.com or mp3search.ru. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted October 26, 2005 Share Posted October 26, 2005 Just one reason why DRM (Digital Rights Management, or rather Digital Restriction Management) sucks. .wmv and such formats with DRM's are bad for you and you should stay away from them. .mp3 and .ogg is good. Sucks that you have payed for the music, and now cant listen to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted October 26, 2005 Moderators Share Posted October 26, 2005 Just one reason why DRM (Digital Rights Management, or rather Digital Restriction Management) sucks. .wmv and such formats with DRM's are bad for you and you should stay away from them. .mp3 and .ogg is good. Sucks that you have payed for the music, and now cant listen to them. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It indeed sucks! .mp3 is good (LAME vbr encoded that is), however for lossy I lean more towards .mpc and .ogg since they have gapless playback. I don't buy any DRM'd music because many years ago after buying just one .wma and after a disk format I could no longer play the file. I also don't use .wma or any other audio codec that may accidentally have DRM enabled. The whole DRM thing is a reason to just go to a record store and buy the audio CD (which under current terms means you don't actually own the audio CD, you have only purchased a license to use it an unlimited amount of times). I also stay away from copy-protected/copy-damaged audio CD's which is just more DRM b.s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanguard382 Posted October 26, 2005 Author Share Posted October 26, 2005 any way to convert itunes bought music? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted October 26, 2005 Moderators Share Posted October 26, 2005 any way to convert itunes bought music? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Be careful when talking about DRM'd music and ways of circumventing it because if someone feels their intellectual property rights are being abused they can and very well may sue people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 Even if you own the music you downloaded, if the file is DRM'd its illegal to circumvent the protection because of the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) which is a very stupid law. .wma and any format which uses DRM should be strongly avoided. You supposedly can convert it by burning it to a Audio CD in Windows Media Player, then rip them back to mp3, or even better ogg vorbis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted October 27, 2005 Moderators Share Posted October 27, 2005 .wma and any format which uses DRM should be strongly avoided. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I completely agree! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanguard382 Posted October 31, 2005 Author Share Posted October 31, 2005 hey i found a way to change the file format to MP3 it is a program called HotRecorder for Media http://www.hotrecorder.com/ shoudl work prefect tested it out. I aslo decided to buy it when it was $19 and still legal lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 Yeh, but now you ended up having todo additional purchases in order to listen to which you legally own the right to listen to since you bought them. I think that you should contact Apple and explain that you are very upset and frustrated about their stupid DRM formats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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