Use iMovie to remove iTMS DRM

So how long till someone writes an applescript to do this for all tracks on a downloaded "cd"?

potentially all tracks as they're downloaded?

Don't you think, or at least I should think that someone could figure out a way to make an external drive "look" like a CD that can be burned to. Therefore you can do one burn session for all your music and one import session to bring it all back in.

ron, I think the bloggers here get paid per post, that's why this is here.

The real issue is that you will lose your tags this way. When burning & re-ripping a CD, iTunes asks if you'd like to overwrite the existing songs. Tags & even Album Art are retained (but be sure to back up your iTMS files before overwriting!).

So, until someone rebuilds jHYMN, this is still the fastest & simplest solution to de-DRM'ing your stuff.

It is so stupid that this is being posted. Yeah, this tip has been around along time; so long that the actual usefulness is no longer there. You see, iMovie version 3 and below (along with QT version... whatever it was at the time) let you export your purchased music back out in the exact same ACC format - WITHOUT the DRM, WITHOUT re-conversion, WITHOUT any recompression!

This tip is completely useless and can be done with just about any audio program that use QT (ie: all of them), what is the point of calling out iMovie. Plus you still have a re-conversion process.

A reliable way to archive and burn iTMS video files would be very nice.

If you burn all the tracks from an album you don't lose tags, as it just sees it as a CD (as it finds out what CD it is with tacklengths etc.. but if its random tracks, then i have found you do!
I just use 1 CD-RW, so it is very cheap and reuseable, and doen't really take any time at all.

Q: Do you lose tags when re-importing, either from a cd-rw or via iMovie? That's the notion that keeps me from converting all my tracks to mp3. If the tags are lost in conversion is there a simple way to 'clone' the tags from the original file to the new file?

Man, David Chartier is the king of digging out old stuff...

Still not as convenient as burning and reimporting via CD-RW...