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Re:Backing Up Spotify by jMyles on Saturday December 20, 2025 @07:57PM (#46341238)
> DRM free digital music from all of the record labels

Is this true? Can you show me where I can get DRM-free releases from Mountain Fever?

Better yet, can you add that information here? https://pickipedia.xyz/wiki/DRM-free

Re:Backing Up Spotify by raw_anon_1111 on Saturday December 20, 2025 @08:10PM (#46341293)
Your link doesn’t work. But I assume you are talking about this label? I looked at the first artist and I found the artist’s music on iTunes. Everything that Apple sells on the iTunes Music Store has been DRM free AAC or ALAC (Apple lossless) since 2009.

https://mountainfever.com/colin-kathleen-ray/

While ALAC is an Apple proprietary format, it is DRM free and can be converted to FLAC using ffmeg. AAC is not an Apple format

Re:Backing Up Spotify by jdabney on Saturday December 20, 2025 @10:01PM (#46341835)
ALAC is open source and royalty free since 2011. https://macosforge.github.io/alac/
Re:Backing Up Spotify by raw_anon_1111 on Saturday December 20, 2025 @10:28PM (#46341982)
Wow. How did I miss that!!!
Re:Backing Up Spotify by whstl on Saturday December 20, 2025 @08:47PM (#46341499)
Re:Backing Up Spotify by lurk2 on Sunday December 21, 2025 @01:19AM (#46342704)
I remember trying to use music I had bought in a slideshow that year and finding out that I couldn’t load tracks with DRM into the editor I was using; it was very frustrating.
Re:Backing Up Spotify by raw_anon_1111 on Sunday December 21, 2025 @02:02AM (#46342843)
A way to strip the DRM was built into the iTunes app - burn the song to a CD and rip it.
Re:Backing Up Spotify by pcthrowaway on Sunday December 21, 2025 @12:24PM (#46346420)
Is burning to a CD and ripping it lossless?
Re:Backing Up Spotify by whstl on Monday December 22, 2025 @06:22AM (#46353263)
If the source and target are both lossless, then yes. ALAC was available in iTunes since 2004 AFAIK.

Caveat: CDs were 44.1/16 so if the original files had more bit depth, they would require downsampling. Technically lossy, but not "compression" per se. But AFAIK, iTunes was also 44.1/16.

Re:Backing Up Spotify by Yodel0914 on Saturday December 20, 2025 @09:06PM (#46341600)
I don’t know about Mountain Fever, but for anything I haven’t been able to find on Bandcamp, I’ve been able to find on Qobuz.