AnalogWhole, an Alternative To FairUse4WM

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday October 28, 2006 @09:41AM from the digital-is-so-XX-century dept.

Squidmarks writes, "AnalogWhole is a free application that allows any file that can be played in Windows Media Player to be transferred to iTunes as an MP3. It uses, you guessed it, the 'analog hole' to re-record any DRM'ed song as an MP3. Because the analog signal doesn't actually leave the computer, but is simply looped back in the sound card, sound quality of the re-recording is excellent. All meta data is transferred as well. The MP3 file is automagically added to iTunes. Just show it where you store your DRM music and walk away."

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Re:Still loss of quality by omeomi · 2006-10-28 10:04 · Score: 3, Insightful

It is still looped through the sound card, so while quality may still be "excellent", there is still loss.

There's also loss do to re-compressing an already compressed file as an MP3. Overall, it's not the best of option...especially given the horrid quality of most consumer-level ADC's.

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