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5star freeTunes: Legal defusing of DRM-protected music files

Written by ts
Wednesday, 10 January 2007
Numerous online services sell digital music and quickly provide users with the latest charts. Yet, a DRM-protection often guarantees that one cannot play, copy or burn the files at will. Unfortunately the protection sometimes backfires. 5star freeTunes offers a legal way to defuse the protection. No future vision but reality today: with a mouse click thousands of music friends buy their songs via Internet. Thus, the relevant online portals turn over millions of Euro. They protect their music with a Digital Rights Management, which also suits the license holders. This DRM protection is different for every music service. It guarantees that one cannot copy songs at will, burn them on audio CDs or transfer them to MP3-players. A DRM protection not only effectively keeps the user from forwarding music files to friends and acquaintances. It is also responsible for a number of problems, which make life difficult for users who paid for this protection. A system crash for instance can delete all purchased licenses so that one can no longer play the songs one bought. It is also very annoying if the own MP3-player is not able to play the DRM-protected data because it does not know the file format or because the file has already been copied to three other players and a fourth copy is not authorised. And what happens if the own provider no longer exists and the purchased licenses have disappeared together with him? 5star freeTunes: remove the DRM-protection Music buyers simply live better without DRM. Tim Stoepler of Engelmann Media GmbH: "The music friends paid for their songs and still they have to accept restrictions. Our program 5star freeTunes knows a legal way to lift the DRM-protection." 5star freeTunes is able to convert the purchased music files into more compatible formats, which one can still play tomorrow without a crash of computer or MP3-player. The program is fed with music-, audio book-, podcast- and video clips in formats WMA, WMV, M4P, AAC, MP4, and M4V, i.e. with practically all copyrighted audio- and video files that can be played in Windows Media Player or in iTunes. The program plays the DRM-protected files and at the same time records them anew. The new music files do not have any DRM-protection and can be stored on the hard disc in formats like MP3, OGG, WMA and WAV. The current version also provides the AAC-format for storage, which e.g. an iPod uses. This legal conversion is not only useful to bypass the DRM-regulations. Many music services sell their files in formats, which cannot be played in any surroundings. Yet, an MP3-file, which you can quickly write with 5star freeTunes, is already used almost universally - burnt on CD in the DVD-player or in many hi-fi systems or car radios. Basically, one can archive the legally purchased songs for eternity. Break the DRM-chains via mouse click 5star freeTunes is easy to operate. You load the music files to be converted via mouse click. The program plays them one after the other and automatically records them anew. If information on song title and interpret is already available, this is adopted and written to the ID3-tags of an MP3 file. At present, 5star freeTunes is available in version 1.2.1.927 A test version is ready for download (9.9 MB) from the homepage free of charge. The full version costs 17.90 Euro. Homepage: www.engelmann.com 5star freeTunes: www.engelmann.com/?file=5starfreetunes Information on the provider Engelmann Media GmbH, Essener Str. 20, 44139 Dortmund, Germany Press contact: Tim Stoepler Tel: +49 / 1805 / 36435626 / Fax: +49 / 700 / 36435626 E-Mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Web: www.engelmann.com Bookmark with: Delicious Digg reddit Facebook StumbleUpon What are these?

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