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?

Comments

[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.