FairGame strips iTunes DRM with iMovie

Also song DRM stripped when burnt to CD and reripped...news at eleven!

yes, burning a CD does strip the DRM but I think it also loses all the good stuff -- art and whatnot. (haven't tested it personally, but there you go)

does anyone know if this compresses the file again? that would kinda defeat the whole point... we need DRM strippers that retain the bit quality.

We get to kill the music industry. I didn't want them to sign any new bands anyway.

...Application You're Looking For. *waves hand*

Yes, this is just an application written to automate a well-known loop-hole in iMovie. The iTMS tracks are being re-encoded, thus further downgrading the tracks audio quality by re-compressing an already compressed file.

The only benefits it provides over ripping, burning, and re-importing your tracks is the aforementioned metadata and album art are kept in-tact and a GUI to help batch-process large numbers of tracks.

Wake me up when DVD Jon's DRM stripping hack is leaked into the wild...

... it converts to 96 kbs MP3 MONO sound. While there may be a way to change that, I couldn't find it. Sorry, but this one's not for me.

Follow the instructions. It re-encodes the song to whatever your iTunes import settings are.

I had to clean up my desktop before it would work. Just put the junk into a folder.

G5 Dual 2GHz, 4GB, 10.4.8.

The instructions are not clear. Place clip in movie timeline in the Import pref of iMovie HD? What the hell does that mean? What clip? Import doesn't select or say import pref of iMovie timeline. To confusing if you ask me and if it encodes in mono forget about it.

horvatic: Um, just like it says - go to the "Import" preferences area in iMovie HD, and select "Place clips in: Movie Timeline" (vs. "Clips Pane"). Pretty straightforward, it seems to me. You are running iMovie HD v 6.x (as it states as compatible), right?

That being said, as others have stated, this is an automated approach to the known-for-quite-some-time workaround for stripping DRM from such imports. The results aren't exactly spectacular (96 kbps MONO?? Wow, that's horrible), so I doubt most people are going to be happy with the results.

I'll just wait on iTV for entertainment system automation - since why else would I need to strip DRM? Portable players? C'mon, the new iPod shuffle is $79. Computer playback? 5 computers is more than enough to allow me to play a given song on ANY system I want. Yes, there are those who say "DRM is evil", but until we eliminate the music publishers entirely, it's a very necessary evil. Hacks such as this are awkward at best, and destructive at worst.

Just say "No".

Completely agreed!