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Being from a Pepsi drinking family, I've been taking advantage of the Pepsi/iTunes music giveaway. It's easy enough to burn the songs to CD and then re-rip them to add them to my Pocket PC tunes library. Anyway, the Norwegian programmer responsible for cracking DVD encryption in 1999 and associates have come up with a way to do away with the middle step I use to get my songs "unprotected" - thus usable on my PPC. They have created an app called PyMusique (site down as of this writing) that will let someone who buys iTunes music to download it in unprotected form.
It's doubtful this would help Pocket PC users much since there isn't an AAC player for our devices yet. Not sure if there is a converter...anyone else know?
I wouldn't doubt it. Converting AAC to MP3 is very easy for me though, I just right click on the files and I have an option to easily convert them. http://www.dbpoweramp.com/
Oops, sorry! Not what I meant. That converter only works on unprotected AACs. I was just saying once they got unprotected, it was no sweat turning them into mp3's.
In the interest of science, I downloaded the app to see what it's all about. It basically is a replacement app that takes the place of iTunes. You have to enter your username and password and it logs into iTunes Music service instead of using the real iTunes software. I got as far as launching the program and seeing the request for my username and password, then I closed the app.
I am not accusing anybody of anything here, but if Jon is smart enough to bypass iTunes security, encryption and connection protocol, he's certainly smart enough to log iTunes usernames and passwords and have them sent back to a central server undetected. I sort of felt caught in the "honor among theives" scenario and chose to just go the ole-reliable way of burning to CD first.
On the plus side of the app if it works as described, at least it doesn't appear to attempt a bypass of Apple's payment process. Thus, Apple still gets their money.
So in a nutshell, although it appears to be a good way to legitimately purchase music from iTunes in a form flexible enough for playing on your Pocket PC, my opinion is it's too risky to use.
But might be useless since they are blocking the app now.
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