moving purchased (itunes or other) to Dbpower amp

[cmk_78212]

If I use itunes or another program to buy songs, is it possible to get them into power amp burner and also to a portable music player?

Example:
Could I buy a song on itunes and instead of using it only with itunes/ipod, use it with power amp and burner, and maybe put it on a different portable music player?

[ChristinaS]

Re: moving purchased (itunes or other) to Dbpower amp

If I use itunes or another program to buy songs, is it possible to get them into power amp burner and also to a portable music player?

Example:
Could I buy a song on itunes and instead of using it only with itunes/ipod, use it with power amp and burner, and maybe put it on a different portable music player?

That's the $64000 question!

If your songs from iTunes (or whatever the source) are protected, as they most probably are, you'll be having fun converting them to an unprotected format. You'll probably not be able to put them through dMC CD Writer as is.

There are about a gazillion threads and posts on how to or not to go about converting any of those files. They are all protected in different ways.

Many attempts that appear to have worked seem to involve burning an audio CD using the player that's capable of playing the file (whether Windows Media Player, or Real Player or whatever). Once that's done successfully, you can re-rip that audio cd using dMC Audio CD Input into whatever other file formats you wish to have.

Other attempts have involved using a piece of software called Hymn from http://www.hymn-project.org/ .

The thing to keep in mind: after you've tried all sorts of other things that don't work, the thing that will definitely work, as long as you have a player capable of playing the file, is dMC Auxiliary Input. http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=5362

[xoas]

Re: moving purchased (itunes or other) to Dbpower amp

Generally this may be possible but the process may not be very easy or very pretty. iTunes and many other legal pay for download providers use various digital rights measures which are designed to discourage or prevent you from converting your downloaded music to some other format on the theory that this will keep people from ripping off the music industry. In many cases, these providers will enable you to burn your downloaded tracks but I presume you have to use their burners since dBpowerAMP will not have a codec that will be able to convert these encrypted files. So that kind of leaves out the possibility of using the dB CD Writer to burn these files. Another workaround that often (but not always) works is to play these files and to record them using dMC Auxilary Input from the sound card as they play.
In the specific case of iTunes downloads there are at least three programs designed to defeat this encryption to allow you to make legal copies of the music you download. This will end up involving another program but it often is simpler than either burning to cd or re-recording through Auxilary Input. There are some known similar cases of programs that will work for other file encryption schemes but this will not always be the case. Even in the case of iTunes there was a period (which might be continuing even now) where Apple was actively responding to these de-encryption programs with countermeasures on a fairly frequent basis.

Hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Bill Mikkelsen