Hello the iPeople.

[serinde]

Since apparently this is the only place on earth you can get it, I just bought Pete Yorn's cover of "Red Right Hand" from iTunes. So far, so good. However, the reason I wanted it in the first place was to frob it around in a mix. How do I torture this wack iFormat into an mp3?

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[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

You're running Windows, right?

There are a couple of ways. There's current VLC, which, given setting up with the keys from iTunes, knows how to play the music within and also just happens to do transcodes.

Or you can use something like Replay Radio to capture the decoded sound before it gets to the sound card and then re-encode with LAME. RR cuts out at three minutes unless you pay the guy, though -- I have a license, but of course I don't have a license for the song!

So, basically, there are ways. They all involve a certain amount of mucking about, though.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

You're running Windows, right?

Yes. Though if the song file is saveable separately, I can of course upload it to Unix-flavor-of-choice. If that helps.

So, basically, there are ways. They all involve a certain amount of mucking about, though.

Thass okay; I can put up with a certain amount of muckin'. VLC seems to be the droids I'm looking for, so unless the process is scary-awful I'll see what I can make of it.

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

Can't say how easy the VLC approach is, as I've never done it.

I've typically done this on my Mac using Audio Hijack. That does a similar job to RR (which I use for recording This American Life every week), but has a 10-minute cut-off on the eval version so it's actually usable.

The copy-protected file will be sitting wherever iTunes is storing music, but it won't play on anything that doesn't have your key.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You could burn the iWack file to CD, then rip the CD. However, the result is iffy due to the fact that the iWack compression is lossy (as is MP3).

I'd look for fairplay (or playfair) I forget which...

[rainbear.livejournal.com]

it rem0v3s the l0ck so you can then bring it into something like Easy-CD-DA Converter and translate it to MP3... or anything else.