t's also noteworthy that similar code has been circulating quietly for quite some time on the Mac side. Anyone with even moderate knowledge of the QuickTime APIs could implement code to do this with minimal effort. It's trivial. I myself have written code that re-encodes the protected AAC's to MP3 so that I can play them on an old Rio that I still use sometimes.
No! No! No!
You don't think this is interesting because you do not understand what it does.
The Mac tools/code you talk of takes Protected AAC, decodes it to raw Audio (PCM/AIFF) and then Reencodes it.
This takes Protected AAC to Unprotected AAC. No transcoding (no loss of quality) involved.
The Register is way off in their article. They clearly don't understand the way this App actually works... and are comparing it a simple stream ripper.
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MacRumors is also confident that a new product called GarageBand will be released tomorrow. Probably a consumer audio application
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See MacRumors.com for Forbes' "sources".
that being said, there are circulating rumors of Smaller/Cheaper iPods.
where you can make song recommendations to others for itunes songs. A very cool concept.
Um... play it on the many AAC players that don't support Protected AACs?
t's also noteworthy that similar code has been circulating quietly for quite some time on the Mac side. Anyone with even moderate knowledge of the QuickTime APIs could implement code to do this with minimal effort. It's trivial. I myself have written code that re-encodes the protected AAC's to MP3 so that I can play them on an old Rio that I still use sometimes.
No! No! No!
You don't think this is interesting because you do not understand what it does.
The Mac tools/code you talk of takes Protected AAC, decodes it to raw Audio (PCM/AIFF) and then Reencodes it.
This takes Protected AAC to Unprotected AAC. No transcoding (no loss of quality) involved.
The method you describe causes some loss of quality
DRM AAC -> AIFF -> AAC
This method does the following
DRM AAC -> AAC
The Register is way off in their article. They clearly don't understand the way this App actually works... and are comparing it a simple stream ripper.
"[Napster and MusicMatch have] started money losing businesses and I'm perplexed as to why." - Steve Jobs
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