Q: Sonos/DRM iTunes copy protection - help!
Hi everyone,
I followed the advice of this article: About iTunes Plus - Apple Support, regarding how to work around iTunes downloads that were copy protected.
It worked out that I had about 800+ songs that were copy protected, so after reading the article - and eager to get my Sonos system to play much of my favourite music, I trashed my old copy-protected songs through iTunes, and re-downloaded the new so-called non DRM songs via my Purchased history.
After one hour of doing this, I open up iTunes and - sadly - my 'new' songs are still protected AAC files. The file info for each songs shows the original purchase date, and when it was last downloaded. In my case, around 30 minutes ago.
Any ideas? I'd prefer not to have to burn everything onto CDs - that's a lot of CDs that are only going to be used once.
Thanks everybody
Christian.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), i7/16g/512g HD
Posted on Feb 24, 2016 11:26 PM
Hi
I had the same experience as you where some tracks became matched instead of purchased. You can remove download and then redownload matched track which will not have DRM.
I also had tracks that could not be upgraded - album or version of album no longer available.
Option one is to delete tracks, then reimport them - if tracks were available they would match letting you remove download and then redownload up graded version.
If this does not work, option two is to burn tracks to CD-R then reimport them. The tracks will no longer have DRM and are likely to be uploaded.
JIm
Posted on Feb 28, 2016 12:58 PM