itunes, how to find drm songs

[lazydays]

I've done the itunes library upgrade a few times since they offered the option. Now when I go to the itunes store I don't even see the option. How can I check to see if there are any drm'd songs left in my library?

Thanks

[Seacrest]

Smart Playlist with ".m4p" in the filter.

[lazydays]

So when itunes replaces the DRM'd songs they have a different extension? I did the smart playlist but it doesn't work as it only looks at the track name and not necessarily the extension. I did drop to the finder and do a search inside my itunes folder for .m4p and it only found 61 tracks. Not bad if that is a good indicator of how much drm I have left.

[celliott]

Don't search on song name, do a smart search on Kind and look for Protected AAC. All of the Applestore purchases that have drm have this as the "Kind". Or you can simply sort your song list by Kind column and all of the protected files will be listed together.

[lazydays]

Ok, that worked and is showing 211 songs. Not a huge amount but I'd sure like to get that number reduced. Does the upgrade option only appear on the itunes store if there are replacements available or do I need to be looking in a new spot now? Thanks

[Rolando]

Worst DRM ever! I suppose paying $63 is better that burning all those to CD and then reripping them to Lossless.

[RAMd®d]

Worst DRM ever!

Hardly. It's the easiest to remove.


I suppose paying $63 is better that burning all those to CD and then reripping them to Lossless.

It's your time and your money.

But I don't see what's to be gained by ripping AAC to Apple Lossless. You'd want to take an AIFF file and rip it to Lossless. Converting an mp3 to Lossless would be like converting a jpg to TIFF. (Ok, maybe not, but it sounded good at the time).

And I thought I saw an option in iTunes to back up all your purchased music. That would be or include the protected files. Burn and rip back to mp3.

[Rolando]

RAMd®d wrote:
Worst DRM ever!

Hardly. It's the easiest to remove.

Forgot the sarcasm tags!

RAMd®d wrote:
I suppose paying $63 is better that burning all those to CD and then reripping them to Lossless.

It's your time and your money.

But I don't see what's to be gained by ripping AAC to Apple Lossless. You'd want to take an AIFF file and rip it to Lossless. Converting an mp3 to Lossless would be like converting a jpg to TIFF. (Ok, maybe not, but it sounded good at the time).

The m4p's iTunes used to sell are already compressed lossily, so burning them and ripping to mp3/mp4 would degrade them further. I burn to cd and rip to lossless to avoid any further damage.