Monday, April 05, 2004

playfair : rip the DRM from your iTMS songs...

Check out playfair:

The playfair program is quite simple. It takes one of the iTMS Protected AAC Audio Files, decodes it using a key obtained from your iPod or Microsoft Windows system and then writes the new, decoded version to disk as a regular AAC Audio File. It then optionally copies the metadata tags that describe the song, including the cover art, to the new file.

playfair runs from the command line, and takes some basic familiarity with the Terminal to get it working, but relatively easy install all and all. Simply navigate to the decompressed playfair folder via the Terminal and:
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

Now, I can finally start listening to the songs I own on anything and anywhere I damn well please...

HOOT!