On Wednesday 14 January 2009 09:55:29 Craig Froehle wrote: > Actually, you can just burn the DRM tracks to CD, then rip that CD to > get DRM-free tracks, but that's a lot of hassle.
Not just a hassle, but it also removes some fidelity from the music. Every time you save a lossy mp3 or other format, some data is discarded for the sake of compression. Think a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy, etc., of some form. With the right burner software, no loss AAC -> CDA, but loss when you go back, CDA -> MP3. You could go CDA -> WAV or FLAC, but your file, which has no better quality than the original AAC, would be 10 to 5 times the size, respectively, of the original AAC. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
