by Lysander » Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:39 pm
That's fantastic. So we've got the Chinese war3z community lurking here, as well? Holla atcha fellas! Anyway, yeah, the link Mr. FUCKING ANNONAMOUS Broken English put down will probably work (haven't worked) or you can try Sound Taxi. Really, though, unless there's some way of keeping the file the same and just stripping the DRM from it (which I don't believe there is) any program you use will worsen the audio quality as iTunes stores are encoded at 128Kbps AAC (a criminally low bitrate for the #1 online music store) and, thus, converting htem to MP3 will cause the already lossilly-compressed file to be losilly compressed... again. Transcoding is never fun and should be avoided if all possible, but yeah, there's not much you can do about files that have DRM on them. Anyway, if you don't wanna waste a CDR on the .m4P files, you could always download Demontools and burn an image file of the disc you would burn using your normal burning program and mount it as a drive; iTunes (or whatever he'd use) won't know the difference.
That's fantastic. So we've got the Chinese war3z community lurking here, as well? Holla atcha fellas! Anyway, yeah, the link Mr. FUCKING ANNONAMOUS Broken English put down will probably work (haven't worked) or you can try Sound Taxi. Really, though, unless there's some way of keeping the file the same and just stripping the DRM from it (which I don't believe there is) any program you use will worsen the audio quality as iTunes stores are encoded at 128Kbps AAC (a criminally low bitrate for the #1 online music store) and, thus, converting htem to MP3 will cause the already lossilly-compressed file to be losilly compressed... again. Transcoding is never fun and should be avoided if all possible, but yeah, there's not much you can do about files that have DRM on them. Anyway, if you don't wanna waste a CDR on the .m4P files, you could always download Demontools and burn an image file of the disc you would burn using your normal burning program and mount it as a drive; iTunes (or whatever he'd use) won't know the difference.