Timeline for Most efficient way to 'export' iTunes protected aac to FLAC (for personal use)?
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| Oct 4, 2014 at 16:36 | comment | added | therobyouknow | The FairGame link looks very old (much earlier versions of OS X) and since then I think Apple have long closed the technical loopholes that FairGame exploited. Again a no go. | |
| Oct 4, 2014 at 16:35 | comment | added | therobyouknow | Thanks but I won't install AppleMacSoft - there is no detail about 1) the company (raising concerns about product quality) and 2) how the DRM by-passing works. My guess is that the DRM by-passing isn't, instead I guess they siphon off the uncompressed audio stream just before it's output. At this point, creating a new unprotected file based on this audio would mean it has gone through a further generation of compression, introducing artifacts and not the same as the compressed audio in the original protected file. They say this is legal, but compared with what exactly? | |
| May 28, 2014 at 8:10 | comment | added | therobyouknow | thanks @chillin I'll take a closer look - my files are purchases iTunes tunes, and are I'm pretty sure they are aac and not the lossless ALAC. The reason why I want to make FLAC copies of them is that this would preserve the original fidelity, rather than making copies of the originals in another lossy format such as aac or mp3, which would not be the exact fidelity of the original when it is played like FLAC is, copies in such lossy formats would have gone through another generation of conversion and introduced artifacts. | |
| May 28, 2014 at 3:28 | history | edited | chillin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 28, 2014 at 3:13 | history | answered | chillin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |