Posted by Java Jive on 07/14/06 08:56

Or, some sound cards will record 'What You Hear', and the older versions
don't have DRM on this (I think some newer ones do).

Or, if you have 2 PCs with/or two soundcards, both with SPDIF In/Out, then
you used to be able to connect them suitably and play back digitally through
one while recording digitally via the other. Again more recent models may
have DRM on this though.

That's how I freed up my Liquid Audio collection, and damned good thing I
did, as they're no longer supporting that encryption method (in fact, I'm
not even sure they're still in business).

As the OP said, DRM on what you've rightfully paid for is just another
encouragement to piracy - bloody absurd.

"Joel" <joelx@usa.net> wrote in message
news:5l9eb2h8lo3v6f1ugkr6phu2cqt09p3u67@4ax.com...
> Jerry <whoisit@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
> >Do you mean by burning to a CD and then ripping from the CD back into
> >something mp3s? Or is there a better way?
>
> If you haven't yet used iTunes 6.x, your purchases can be decrypted
> with Hymn (www.hymn-project.org), which is ideal for both direct
> playing and conversion, but the CD burning/ripping method is quite
> acceptable, I've found.

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