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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.ar
by 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 agoI 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 agoA way to strip the DRM was built into the iTunes app - burn the song to a CD and rip it.
- pcthrowaway 10mo agoIs burning to a CD and ripping it lossless?
- deleted 10mo ago[deleted]
- whstl 10mo agoIf 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.