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Windows Program Enables MP3 Downloading From iTunes

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the not-just-for-macs-anymore dept.

Joey Patterson writes "CNET reports that an independent software developer has released a program called MyTunes that allows people to share and download each other's MP3s on a network via iTunes." This is very much like a Mac program I saw a while back called itunesdl, which allowed one to download MP3s from friends who were sharing their playlists, exactly as MyTunes claims to do.

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  1. Isn't it obvious? by TheSpoom · · Score: 3, Interesting

    DRM = protection of the music files.

    But the player then decodes the audio stream and then plays it through sound card.

    Most sound cards have line out.

    DRM *will not* work for audio in this way.

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    1. Re:Isn't it obvious? by YOU+LIKEWISE+FAIL+IT · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Run VMWare with either esound output if it supports it natively, or using esddsp, and you can use esdmon to tap the current esd buffers and dump them to disk. Then just run them through Lame, et voila.

      I have mixed feelings about the program in the title. It's a very cool hack, but I hope they don't take away the 'casual listening' on networks feature from iTunes under corporate pressure from folks who don't understand what an audio scraper is, because I really liked it. It really goes well with Wifi/Rendevous.

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  2. Re:Misleading Headline by Spyky · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Furthermore, if you put up a Kazaa share or a Windows file share or an FTP server full of MP3s, I can grab music just as quick as my bandwidth and your bandwidth will allow. With MyTunes, at best I can grab music from your iTunes share as fast as I can listen too it.

    It would take someone 9 days to copy all of the songs out of my iTunes library. This further separates iTunes music sharing from file-sharing services.

    -Spyky

  3. Re:Won't work with music from Apple Store by hype7 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    This will work just fine with MP3's, but won't work with Apple's DRM'ed files. For those, you need to actually authorize the computer so it can play the AAC file.


    that won't be enough to stop the ensuing shit storm. Last time something like this happened (iTunes 4.0 on the mac) it was discovered that you could enable music sharing over the entire internet. The RIAA jumped down Apple's throat.

    This will be no different - it's the akin to setting up shared file folders all over a network (think of a college dorm...), except that iTunes is a pretty interface. I think when the RIAA gets wind of this (won't be long now, and I *bet* that's why CNet published in the first place) they'll be down Apple's throat like pavlova down a fat lady's gullet.

    The endgame: I'm now concerned that the feature is going to get pulled. Which is a shame, because it's innovative and it's cool.

    -- james
  4. The loser: Me by Therlin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Great. Pretty soon Apple will disable this option and I will not be able to use iTunes simple zero-conf mp3 sharing. I loved opening my iTunes from another computer and listen to my songs. The loser: Me.

    In the meanwhile all the kiddies will keep using Kazaa to get their songs.

  5. Re:Won't work with music from Apple Store by VertigoAce · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How long before iTunes gets shut down at college campuses just like Phynd has been multiple times. The kid across the hall from me ran a program that displayed files "in a nice sorted order" without providing the functionality to download them. Sure his was centralized and iTunes sounds like the shared playlists are broadcast (so it might be slower to browse the entire network). He lost his $12000 but Apple's allowed to do the same thing?