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Flip500 · Jul 14, 2005, 09:59 AM

I have gotten many burned CDs from friends as presents, but alot of the songs are downloaded off iTunes, I can't just ask for their password to play the song when I want. So, I was wondering if there is a way or a program to take the requirement for a password off the song files, so I don't need my friend's passwords.

turtle777 · Jul 14, 2005, 10:11 AM

No, the sharing of songs bought in the iTunes Music Store is not possible, for obvious reasons.
If you don't have songs that you bought yourself, you could authorize the computer with your friend's password. I don't think you can authorize two or more accounts at the same time though. Does somebody know ?

-t

viruscool · Jul 14, 2005, 10:31 AM

Use this at your own will:

Cough

(I do not personally use this but I've heard that this may be what your looking for)

Flip500 · Jul 14, 2005, 10:48 AM

Thanks, that interesting, I'll probally try it out...

Flip500 · Jul 14, 2005, 10:48 AM

Thanks, that interesting, I'll probally try it out...

Zimphire · Jul 14, 2005, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by viruscool

Use this at your own will:

Cough

(I do not personally use this but I've heard that this may be what your looking for)

"Convert AAC to high-quality MP3"

Yeah right.

turtle777 · Jul 14, 2005, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by viruscool

Use this at your own will:
Cough
(I do not personally use this but I've heard that this may be what your looking for)

Doesn't work until he has authorized his computer to de-DRM those files.
If his friend is dumb enough to give out the password, ah well...

-t

Kristoff · Jul 14, 2005, 01:03 PM

If you have the CD, just re-rip them to mp3.

jyunderwood · Jul 14, 2005, 02:17 PM

I'm a bit confused. burned cds shouldn't be protected.

wataru · Jul 14, 2005, 03:09 PM

Obviously his friends burned the files as a data CD, not an audio CD.

Flip500 · Jul 14, 2005, 05:15 PM

Zimphire, it's not cough but the link he gave led to this site: http://hymn-project.org/jhymndoc/ and that DOES have the "unlocker" on it!

viruscool · Jul 14, 2005, 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by turtle777

Doesn't work until he has authorized his computer to de-DRM those files.
If his friend is dumb enough to give out the password, ah well...

-t

Well like I said, I haven't actually used it so I wouldn't know about that

It was just a piece of software I thought of that might help him.

Zimphire · Jul 14, 2005, 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by Flip500

Zimphire, it's not cough but the link he gave led to this site: http://hymn-project.org/jhymndoc/ and that DOES have the "unlocker" on it!

I was speaking about the claim that you can take good quality AAC files and turn them into even HIGHER quality mp3 files.

Simply can't be done.

Originally Posted by Kristoff

If you have the CD, just re-rip them to mp3.

Sure if you want them to sound like crap

Flip500 · Jul 14, 2005, 10:34 PM

Oh, yeah sorry I didn't even catch that, your right that is ridiculous!

King Bob On The Cob · Jul 15, 2005, 03:52 AM

that same project can just decode them into non-DRM'd AAC songs. I've used it before because my mother and father have two separate accounts for their songs and they'd like to share the songs between their iPods. (and occasionally, mine as well)

Kristoff · Jul 15, 2005, 04:33 AM

Originally Posted by Zimphire

I was speaking about the claim that you can take good quality AAC files and turn them into even HIGHER quality mp3 files.

Simply can't be done.

Sure if you want them to sound like crap

I've worked around enough power tools, machinery, and Hemi engines in my life that I couldn't tell the difference if you paid me to.

I have heard MP3s ripped from an iTunes song that was burned to a CD and it sounded fine to me.

Flip500 · 08:50 AM

I was crusine the web and I came upon another site that showed how to "unlock" songs, I haven't tryed it but they said what Kristoff said:

If you have the CD, just re-rip them to mp3.

Minus the "to mp3" part

JLL · Jul 15, 2005, 08:55 AM

Originally Posted by turtle777

No, the sharing of songs bought in the iTunes Music Store is not possible, for obvious reasons.
If you don't have songs that you bought yourself, you could authorize the computer with your friend's password. I don't think you can authorize two or more accounts at the same time though. Does somebody know ?

-t

I have this Mac authorized for two accounts at the moment.

PS: If the friend visits you from time to time, he could authorize your Mac to play his music.

Flip500 · Jul 15, 2005, 09:03 AM

Yeah that would be perfect earlier in this thread turtle777 said had that idea but wasn't sure if it would work, this is great!