Until a decade ago I was one of those blind Apple users that was using iTunes as the only way to organize my music.
Now I’ve liberated my collection using navidrome and/or direct syncing the whole library via syncthing.
Today I noticed that I have about 20 m4p files that can’t be played with anything. Seems like one day I was drunk and I purchased an album on iTunes, so I guess it’s DRM.
There’s a way to convert those files to something with more freedom?
I don’t have iTunes but in some box in my garage I have a 15 years old iMac with some ancient os version that can’t be updated because Apple’s marketing team said I should buy a newer one
- antlion ( @antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English15•1 year ago
Just re-download in a better bitrate and format.
- cooopsspace ( @cooopsspace@infosec.pub ) English1•1 year ago
The correct answer
- Landericus ( @Landericus@lemmy.sdf.org ) English3•1 year ago
I believe that VLC should be able to convert this for you. If not then maybe try Audiocity.
VLC shows the right length, but then plays 3 seconds of garbage audio and stops
- m-p{3} ( @mp3@lemmy.ca ) English8•1 year ago
It might just be easier to find a copy on the high seas than dealing with the DRM.
- Gailthesnail ( @Gailthesnail@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 year ago
some obscure true crime series are only on itunes so not always possible
Looks like, I tried three m4p converters online and they all failed
Maybe it’s just going to be faster to search those 20 songs on soulseek
- LinkOpensChest_wav ( @LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
Would any of these help? Otherwise like someone else said, music is one of the easiest things to find on the high seas.
No, tried a bunch and they either fail or create a file with noise
- Jessica ( @SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English1•1 year ago
NoteBurner should work. You need 10.12.6 Sierra and iTunes 12.6.1.25. I know those versions of MacOS and iTunes work for removing DRM from video files, I’d expect audio files to work as well.
- toxictenement ( @toxictenement@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•1 year ago
So it seems like if you burn the files to a cd with itunes and re-rip the cd (ideally with something like exact audio copy) you can get a drm free version. There might be a way you could write it to an iso with a virtual cd drive with virtual burning capabilities, which it seems like the ‘ultra’ version of daemon tools has. Not sure on a free option, other than pirating daemon tools. There probably is a free alternative though.
That sounds like an insane amount of trouble to go through, so unless you want to do all of that for the experience, just redownload drm-free files with soulseek or something.