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You do. They have some kind of a watermark or metadata specific to your copy but don't have DRM.
by zekica 4y ago
You do. They have some kind of a watermark or metadata specific to your copy but don't have DRM.
- ubercow13 4y agoOnly for iTunes ones, not Apple Music.
- z3c0 4y agoNice! It's about time. Too bad they spent almost two decades doing the opposite, or I'd still have my account.
- pwdisswordfish0 4y agoiTunes music has been DRM free since 2009 (with some exceptions, probably).
- z3c0 4y agoWas that retroactively applied? Because my music from pre-2009 remained DRM'd, but maybe I just needed to re-download them. On top of that, it was all AAC, and I regularly had to convert the files to be usable anywhere but Apple's products. It became such a chore, that I gave up on the Apple music ecosystem entirely, and I don't really have any regrets about it.
- leveraction 4y agoSame here. I had 2 or 3 ipods back in the day and loved it although they had a tendency to fail on me. Eventually, I decided to remove my paid-for downloads off of my ipod. That is when I discovered Apple's DRM and the fact that iTunes was a totally closed universe. I had to abandon all my tunes and I was very mad. That was maybe 2007ish? I have not owned another Apple product of any kind since. They lost me for life not that it seems to have hurt them any.
- mschuster91 4y agoVLC has supported AAC from at least 2006 onwards [1]. Yeah conversion has always been a pain in the butt but back in the time you had to convert between everything all the time anyway (the nastiest example being wma-based devices like the Zune). [1] https://wiki.videolan.org/index.php?title=Advanced_Audio_Coding&oldid=3660 https://wiki.videolan.org/index.php?title=Advanced_Audio_Cod...
- moffkalast 4y agoLook at that subtle off-white metadata. Oh my god, it even has a watermark.
- crossroadsguy 4y agoJust the right amount of restriction. It just works.