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Re: BS5 and iTunes

TWG — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:30:28 GMT

sinuhe:
Hi,
I assume BS5 does not play copy-protected music bought from iTunes store? I love BS5 but the problem is that most of my music is bought from iTunes store. Is there a simple solution?
At present I have BS4 which of course plays (N.Music) all my music form my iMac and can nicely be remotely controlled by iPodTouch and Beo4, which is a nice thing.
After seeing and using the BS5 and BS4 side by side, all of a sudden the latter seems somewhat old-fashioned, but still very nice of course.

Yes, there IS a VERY simple solution:

Locate only your purchased (and copy protected) music tracks in iTunes, put them in a separate playlist and burn all tracks to AUDIO CDs.

Then re-import them via iTunes as MP3, 320kbit/s and you're done :-)

Easy and legal.

Re: BS5 and iTunes

Russ — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:51:28 GMT

At the moment, it is generally the case that nothing but Apple-branded products can play iTunes DRM-protected files. A partial work-around is to use the "iTunes +" feature to update as much of your library as possible to the higher resolution, non-DRM files.

BS5 and iTunes

sinuhe — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:32:50 GMT

Hi,

I assume BS5 does not play copy-protected music bought from iTunes store? I love BS5 but the problem is that most of my music is bought from iTunes store. Is there a simple solution?

At present I have BS4 which of course plays (N.Music) all my music form my iMac and can nicely be remotely controlled by iPodTouch and Beo4, which is a nice thing.

After seeing and using the BS5 and BS4 side by side, all of a sudden the latter seems somewhat old-fashioned, but still very nice of course.