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> DRM free digital music from all of the record labels Is this true? Can you show me where I can get DRM-free releases from Mountain Fever? Better yet, can y

by jMyles 10mo ago

> DRM free digital music from all of the record labels Is this true? Can you show me where I can get DRM-free releases from Mountain Fever? Better yet, can you add that information here? https://pickipedia.xyz/wiki/DRM-free https://pickipedia.xyz/wiki/DRM-free

raw_anon_1111 10mo ago
Your link doesn’t work. But I assume you are talking about this label? I looked at the first artist and I found the artist’s music on iTunes. Everything that Apple sells on the iTunes Music Store has been DRM free AAC or ALAC (Apple lossless) since 2009. https://mountainfever.com/colin-kathleen-ray/ https://mountainfever.com/colin-kathleen-ray/ While ALAC is an Apple proprietary format, it is DRM free and can be converted to FLAC using ffmeg. AAC is not an Apple format
- jdabney 10mo ago
  ALAC is open source and royalty free since 2011. https://macosforge.github.io/alac/ https://macosforge.github.io/alac/
  - raw_anon_1111 10mo ago
    Wow. How did I miss that!!!
whstl 10mo ago
The "iTunes going DRM free" was a big deal around 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20070207234839/http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070207234839/http://www.apple.... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/may/15/drm.apple https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/may/15/drm.apple
- lurk2 10mo ago
  I remember trying to use music I had bought in a slideshow that year and finding out that I couldn’t load tracks with DRM into the editor I was using; it was very frustrating.
  - raw_anon_1111 10mo ago
    A way to strip the DRM was built into the iTunes app - burn the song to a CD and rip it.
    - pcthrowaway 10mo ago
      Is burning to a CD and ripping it lossless?
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      - whstl 10mo ago
        If the source and target are both lossless, then yes. ALAC was available in iTunes since 2004 AFAIK. Caveat: CDs were 44.1/16 so if the original files had more bit depth, they would require downsampling. Technically lossy, but not "compression" per se. But AFAIK, iTunes was also 44.1/16.
Yodel0914 10mo ago
I don’t know about Mountain Fever, but for anything I haven’t been able to find on Bandcamp, I’ve been able to find on Qobuz.

by jMyles 10mo ago

raw_anon_1111 10mo ago

Your link doesn’t work. But I assume you are talking about this label? I looked at the first artist and I found the artist’s music on iTunes. Everything that Apple sells on the iTunes Music Store has been DRM free AAC or ALAC (Apple lossless) since 2009. https://mountainfever.com/colin-kathleen-ray/ https://mountainfever.com/colin-kathleen-ray/ While ALAC is an Apple proprietary format, it is DRM free and can be converted to FLAC using ffmeg. AAC is not an Apple format

jdabney 10mo ago
ALAC is open source and royalty free since 2011. https://macosforge.github.io/alac/ https://macosforge.github.io/alac/
- raw_anon_1111 10mo ago
  Wow. How did I miss that!!!

whstl 10mo ago

The "iTunes going DRM free" was a big deal around 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20070207234839/http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070207234839/http://www.apple.... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/may/15/drm.apple https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/may/15/drm.apple

lurk2 10mo ago
I remember trying to use music I had bought in a slideshow that year and finding out that I couldn’t load tracks with DRM into the editor I was using; it was very frustrating.
- raw_anon_1111 10mo ago
  A way to strip the DRM was built into the iTunes app - burn the song to a CD and rip it.
  - pcthrowaway 10mo ago
    Is burning to a CD and ripping it lossless?
    - deleted 10mo ago
      [deleted]
    - whstl 10mo ago
      If the source and target are both lossless, then yes. ALAC was available in iTunes since 2004 AFAIK. Caveat: CDs were 44.1/16 so if the original files had more bit depth, they would require downsampling. Technically lossy, but not "compression" per se. But AFAIK, iTunes was also 44.1/16.

Yodel0914 10mo ago

I don’t know about Mountain Fever, but for anything I haven’t been able to find on Bandcamp, I’ve been able to find on Qobuz.