I have a question about de-protecting my itunes files

[Isaac of Trek]

Does anyone know of a free way for me to deprotect my entire coolection without having the some trunkated? ot explain the CD thing, as it seems not to work.

[The Corporal]

Burning them to CD's requires you to burn in AIFF format, so you'll only get 12-20 songs per CD. You should be able to get around the protected files by going into Preferences<Advanced<Importing and switching your preferred import format to MP3. Then select all of your purchased songs, right-click to open the contextual menu, then select "Convert Selection to MP3." It'll take a little while, but it should work.

If that doesn't work for you somehow (it's worked for me before), download Audio Hijack and rip and re-import manually. The downside there is that this way takes forever if you have a lot of music since there is no way to get iTunes to play the music faster...

[Ayrrie]

Burning them to CD's requires you to burn in AIFF format, so you'll only get 12-20 songs per CD. You should be able to get around the protected files by going into Preferences<Advanced<Importing and switching your preferred import format to MP3. Then select all of your purchased songs, right-click to open the contextual menu, then select "Convert Selection to MP3." It'll take a little while, but it should work.
I tried that. iTunes tells me you can't convert protected files. Friggin iTunes condom.

[The Corporal]

That's new. Must be the latest upgrade, just two or three months ago I converted a few of my protected songs for a friends. Anyway, there is still either the Audio Hijack or burned CD method.

[Pimptastic]

download a ripper for your ipod like f-tunes or other we have itunes products then

Close itunes.
Open other program.
Pull wanted music off of ipod and not out of hard drive or from burnt cds or anything.
Have the program save them in any format you want.

Hope that helps is alot of people with the same problem so alot of programs for this about, clearly it is as you have lost your fav cd and the only copy left is on the ipod and not to avoid copy protection cos thats bad lol

[Isaac of Trek]

heh. the reason this is an issue is thatI lost my iPod and chise to get a music player phone. so, yeah.

I'll try The Corporal's idea when I get back on my computer. I'm on at laptop ATM

[Pimptastic]

if possible back up the files somehow before you mess with them itunes has a very annoying delete cos he is a pirate policy have had my own try to wipe me out a few times i taught them tho opened my ipod in hard drive mode and changed the screens flashy white looks and font, bet you didnt see that coming did you ipoop

[The Corporal]

Audio Hijack (to my knowledge) doesn't directly interface with iTunes. It works on any program that produces sound, so you can use it to get a cool song of a YouTube video, for example.