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Enable iTunes4 sharing through a firewall
Authored by: JohnnyMnemonic on Apr 29, '03 09:33:06PM

I agree--I'm disappointed at this omission. Now, to stay legal, I
have a difficult choice: buy, and be immediately gratified,
through the Online Music Store; or purchase a CD and rip via
MP3, and then share it out to anyone I want.

However, I've seen it noted (but not tried) that you can share
purchased songs to other computers that have been
"authorized". Although that's really small consolation.

Really strange. I was ok with only being able to stream because
it stood to reason that the client computer shouldn't have a
persistent version w/o their own purchase--but these AAC files
are actually more limited than what a real CD could do.

Even if you could only share on your own subnet ie in your
immediate vicinity, I would be okay with that, vs being able to
share to the Internet at large.



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Enable iTunes4 sharing through a firewall
Authored by: shemp9999 on Apr 30, '03 12:01:25AM

you can buy a song or a cd or whatnot, burn that to a cd (in
audio cd format - i have not tried other formats) and then rip
the cd as AAC or MP3, and the files will no longer be protected
(select "kind" in the view options).

works for me. i can share protected songs with up to 3
registered computers (home desktop, home laptop and work
machine), and if i mix,burn,rip, i can share them with anyone.



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Advanced/Convert Selection to MP3
Authored by: ptwithy on Apr 30, '03 08:23:59AM

What does this command do? Does it 'defang' you AAC?



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