Tunebite – legally? convert DRM audio to MP3/OGG/WMA
From Digg.com:
Found this and thought it was interesting. Seems the program copies the audio while it’s being played, probably as some sort of driver. Supposed to allow you to convert any DRMed audio file to an clean MP3/OGG/WMA file.
From the website of Tunebrite:
- Automatically records copy-protected music while it is being played in the Windows Media Playerİ or Apple iTunesİ.player; automatically saves recordings in unprotected, digital quality MP3, OGG and WMA formats.
- Leverages High Speed Digital Dubbing for turbo-speed recording.
- Supports listening to other music during the recording process, independent from sound card functionality.
- Recognizes when music is being played and automatically records it (background mode).
- Automatically configures recording levels and devices.
- Supports automatically recording large volumes of music (batch mode).
- Automatically saves track title, artist and album name (ID3 tag compatible).
- Records using the standard volume level of the entire music collection (normalization).
- Allows music tracks to be saved in various folders based on artist and album.
- Displays the optimum recording level on an oscilloscope monitor while recording.
Sounds like an interesting little program… well, at least if it works. Don’t have any DRM crippled media myself. All my bands are small and don’t have huge record labels attempting to force them to screw over their fans. If anyone tries out the program and it works let me know.
Tunebrite works very well.They update it several times a year.
I didn’t understand what the DRM was all about untill I purchased some music online and found I couldn’t listen to it except on my computer.
If you download alot of DRN music then you should not deprive yourself of Tunebrite. Tunebrite does not violate the DRM because it does nothing physical to any DRN tags, you are’t hacking or breaking anything by using it.
I love it!
Comment by Howie — 11/12/2006 @ 6:10 am