Itunes downloads / bit rate

matt_london | 12:03 Wed 29th Mar 2006 | Technology

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<PRE>Can you choose what bit rate the songs you download from itunes are?</PRE>

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fo3nix

No, you can't.

Do not buy from the iTunes Music Store, or any other of the major legal music stores. They all infect your music with DRM, which stops you from using your music properly, and is very, very bad.

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<PRE>Too late!! I've already bought about a dozen songs from Itunes. What is DRM and how quickly will it blow my Mac up??!!</PRE>

fo3nix

it's Digital Rights Management (some call it Digital Restrictions Management):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management
http://www.craphound.com/msftdrm.txt

The latter was given to Microsoft (one company of many that uses DRM in its products), but its a good explanation of why it's evil anyway.

The only way to remove the DRM is to burn your downloaded DRM'd music as an audio disc, and then rip the songs again, from the audio CD.

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