[bobhope]

It seems to me that a relatively easy way to get around the protected music format, as well as get music from any download service onto the iPod, is to burn the music, in whatever format, as an Audio cd. Then, rip the music from the newly burned audio cd back into iTunes and it comes in as an mp3. The mp3 has no protection so you should be able to do whatever you want with it... Listen to it on an iPod, burn it as many times as you like, etc. Can anyone explain why this would not work?

[jax]

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Can anyone explain why this would not work?

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no, because it does work.
cheers!

[BigFatDuck]

except you're losing quality when you recompress.

[dougster]

I agree not to recompress a compression file, but for the life of me I can not tell any difference. Probably if I ran the songs through some type of song track meter that could 'rate' the quality it would be lower, but still sounds good at this end. Then again, maybe I'm going deaf with swimmers ear /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif