Help me Hack?

Posted by russw on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @11:18PM
from the self-post dept.

Trying to play a file that is resident in iTunes and has the "fairplay" DRM through a local AIR (Flash) Client. Ideas?

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Re:Help me Hack? by mmelin on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @12:10PM (#254435)

Easy solution? Burn it to a CD and re-import it to iTunes, giving you a MP3 file. I don't think you can play Fairplay-protected files using anything other than iTunes, but you could of course use AppleScript from the AIR client to make iTunes play the file. But that's probably more trouble than it's worth.

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Re:Help me Hack? by bprater on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @02:39AM (#254136)

Y!Hack may not be the best forum for finding answers to tech issues. You might try ask.metafilter.com, some smart folks over there and they dig those types of questions.

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Re:Help me Hack? by russw on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @01:56PM (#254553)

Thanks for the suggestion

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Re:Help me Hack? by Tichy on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @04:57AM (#254189)

Order a CD containing the song from Amazon.

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Re:Help me Hack? by alnayyir on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @12:27AM (#254052)

Most Y-Combinator folk are in the USA, as such, breaking the protections on this would violate the DMCA.

IANAL, just saying.

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Re:Help me Hack? by russw on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @01:43AM (#254103)

Not trying to break the protection, just play the file. No copying, converting etc......

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