An easy way to bypass iTunes DRM by Travis on January 12th, 2008
Part of setting up the new ‘Roo was to get a system that was easy for Tim and I to post. A lot of this had to do with the blogging system we chose and a lot of this had to do with the way we prepare content to post. Things like music, images and videos can be such a pain in the ass to prep, we both ended up simply not posting.
In the process of creating a bunch of scripts to easily (with one click!) take the selected song from iTunes and prepare it to go online (renames it, exports album art and uploads), I came across (what surely can’t be new) a way to get a DRM’d track exported to MP3 without much of a hassle or quality loss.
The magic happens with in an audio app I bought almost a year ago, Audio Hijack Pro. If you’re at all familiar with Audio Hijack Pro, you know exactly where I am headed with this. It’s simple. You just hijack your audio from iTunes and once you setup your format options (which for us is a 128kbps MP3) you just play the track once through iTunes. Audio Hijack Pro captures the digital stream right through OS X (I assume via Core Audio) so there is essentially no quality loss! Boom, boom and… boom.
August 10th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I disagree on the loss of quality in Audio Hijack pro. I am currently using it in one of my productions but I am afraid I will have to find a different solution as the quality doesn’t match the source.