Wednesday, 22 February 2006

DRM Dum ter automates the DRM stri ing proce



By now, most people who buy music from the iTunes Store know that one of the ways to legally get around the DRM restrictio on your purchased music is to burn a CD of that music and then rip that CD back into iTunes as unrestricted MP3 files. While it's true that there's some quality lo a ociated with that proce , it's satisfactory for many people. The proce is still a pain, though, particularly if you have a full library of purchased music that you want to un-DRM.

DRM Dum ter, from BurningThumb, i 't magic and it doe 't perform any new tricks. All it does is automate the task of burning a CD-RW and then importing your music back to iTunes. It proce es your entire iTunes library, not selectio , so there's no need for it if you only have a few songs or le than one CD's worth of music to convert. By using a CD-RW, DRM Dum ter is able to erase and reuse a single disc to handle your entire library without you having to babysit and pop discs in and out of your optical drive.

DRM Dum ter is "donationware" and requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later, a CD-RW disc and a CD-RW-capable burner. It's been tested with iTunes 7.

Thanks, Adam!

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