Until a decade ago I was one of those blind Apple users that was using iTunes as the only way to organize my music.

Now I’ve liberated my collection using navidrome and/or direct syncing the whole library via syncthing.

Today I noticed that I have about 20 m4p files that can’t be played with anything. Seems like one day I was drunk and I purchased an album on iTunes, so I guess it’s DRM.

There’s a way to convert those files to something with more freedom?

I don’t have iTunes but in some box in my garage I have a 15 years old iMac with some ancient os version that can’t be updated because Apple’s marketing team said I should buy a newer one

    • Moonrise2473OP
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      1 year ago

      VLC shows the right length, but then plays 3 seconds of garbage audio and stops

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        1 year ago

        It might just be easier to find a copy on the high seas than dealing with the DRM.

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          1 year ago

          Looks like, I tried three m4p converters online and they all failed

          Maybe it’s just going to be faster to search those 20 songs on soulseek

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      1 year ago

      No, tried a bunch and they either fail or create a file with noise

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    1 year ago

    NoteBurner should work. You need 10.12.6 Sierra and iTunes 12.6.1.25. I know those versions of MacOS and iTunes work for removing DRM from video files, I’d expect audio files to work as well.

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    So it seems like if you burn the files to a cd with itunes and re-rip the cd (ideally with something like exact audio copy) you can get a drm free version. There might be a way you could write it to an iso with a virtual cd drive with virtual burning capabilities, which it seems like the ‘ultra’ version of daemon tools has. Not sure on a free option, other than pirating daemon tools. There probably is a free alternative though.

    That sounds like an insane amount of trouble to go through, so unless you want to do all of that for the experience, just redownload drm-free files with soulseek or something.