How To Remove Personal Information From iTunes DRM-free Songs
Everton | Jun 12, 2007 | Comments 4
I knew it wouldn’t take long for a way to remove personal information from iTunes DRM-free songs. Apple still haven’t explained why they are adding name and buyer information to tracks, but it’s pretty safe to assume that it’s to track who is sharing music.
According to gHacks the personal information can be removed by converting the file to another format. Not the best way as you’ll lose a bit of quality, but for most people this won’t be a problem as you’ll only notice the difference if you have a very good stereo.
It’s amazing how different MP3s sound on a good stereo, compared to say a pair of headphones, and how easy it is to pick out the differences in quality. It’s one of the reasons I’m slowly re-importing my favourite CDs in the Apple lossless format. Another reason is that I’m going to integrate my iPod properly into my car with a Dension Gateway 500 rather than using a FM transmitter, which will expose poor quality tracks more.
When I first imported my collection I went for the highest possible quality as I was banking on having enough storage to cope in the future, and I turned out to be right. Unfortunately, lossless formats didn’t exist back then so I’m having to slog through all my CDs again.
If you’re importing any music I’d advise using a lossless format – you’ll thank me in the future.
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To be honest, the whole DRM debacle was the main reason I tried to avoid iTunes. I might go back to them once they remove the DRM from their whole selection.
We all knew this was going to happen. Anything that we physically have in our hands or on our computer will always have the possibility of being “hacked”. This is just another example.
I’ll continue to say it until it happens…If the music industry is going to have DRMed music, Subscription based is the only way to go.
yes, the DRM is sicked for those who don’t have an iPod. But it doesn’t matter, I recently find a program, NoteBurner, to convert all DRM music to plain MP3 and npw, my music is free not only prisoned on my computer.
Just convert it to AIFF (Apple WAV) AIFF is
lossless and keeps the metadata like Artist and
song info. (WAV doesn’t)
If you convert all your WAV files to AIFF or
just import them that way to start with you’ll
never have to worry about an itunes update
losing most of your music library info. You’ll
keep all the info because it’s part of the file.