DRM Dumpster automates the DRM stripping process

Good news for Windows XP users, there is a software named "NoteBurner" which use a virtual CD-RW burner to automates the whole process of burning and ripping. I post a simple guide on:

http://tomypost.blogspot.com/2007/01/convert-protected-music-files-to-plain.html

It all seems rather "sledgehammer to crack a nut", though. I avoid DRM by simply not using the overpriced iTunes store. I buy CDs and rip them at a bitrate more suited to aural enjoyment. My favourite musicians still get the paltry crumbs thrown at them by the record labels, but I avoid subjecting my ears to low-grade iTunes tracks.

Hummm! If this software becomes popular, it's probably to switch to the Zune!

http://www.cliczune.com

Nice app. Think I'll give it a werl. How do I strip the DRM as soon as I purchase a song?

I DJ for weddings and other parties and I use a program called MixMeister for mixing, organizing, and playing the songs. There is no way to play the songs that I've bought off of iTunes in MixMeister or any other program for that matter without stripping the DRM off first. iTunes just doesn't cut it as a professional DJ program. For the life of me I don't understand why Apple doesn't let you play music from their store using other software. All I want to do is play the music, not burn, duplicate it or anything else. Plus it's on my computer, not a Zune or any other mp3 player. That just pisses me off. Either come out with iTunes Pro DJ software (which I can't believe they haven't done yet considering they have pro versions of every other program in iLife) or lighten up on the DRM! BTW I've been waiting for a program like DRM Dumpster...hope it works good.

screw DRM screw the music industry they have been ripping everyone off for decades

Not being able to listen to all my music while on the Xbox is such a pain. I think this whole DRM thing is temporary. I've already started spending more money at emusic than I do at iTunes.

I see the point of wanting to use it on other devices - people should be screaming at Apple about that. I would much rather see a petition, protests and or lawsuits to tell Apple to license FairPlay to other device makers.* But still iTunes depends on DRM to function as a viable business.

Granted some breakage of DRM is part of the model, but if those loopholes are exploited such that the DRM is irrelevant, then iTMS will no be credible as an online good provider and there goes the download model.

This app is annoying because it celebrates breaking the DRM, and then has the gaul to ask for a donation.

* This is actually the perfect time for that if you ask me, given that MSFT has walked away from PlaysForMaybe with the Zune.

hahaha @ #17 Alyson

People are so freakin' uptight! Stripping the DRM is NOT a big deal. This is my rational.

They bought the song with the DRM. Therefore, that said person is doing things legally. They've bought the right to have that track(s). My situation.. my Audi plays MP3s on SD cards. AAC is not available as an optional format. So, I either buy a CD and add to the garbage pile of excess waste.. or I buy electronically. Environmentally speaking, I think you know the right answer.

@Alyson

This application doesn't 'get around' the DRM; it just automates a facility already provided in iTunes by Apple.