RTP-area local music and culture

[Kevin Darbro <kdarbro AT nc.rr.com>]

On 12/16/05 8:34 AM, "Nathaniel Florin" <npflorin AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately this isn't exactly true. The iTunes
> Music Store sells you MPEG-4 AAC (Advanced Audio
> Coding) files which have a Digital Rights Management
> code built in that, among other things, only allows
> you to play them on an iPod (though you can burn them
> to a generic audio CD as well). There are ways around
> this to get them on your Rio, but they tend to be
> complicated and tedious and are definitely not
> approved of by Apple.

It's as complicated as burning a music CD of the protected songs in iTunes,
ejecting that CD when it's done, inserting it again and ripping the songs to
MP3. At that point, the copy protection is bye bye and you can do what you
want with the MP3s.

- Kevin