{"id":189,"date":"2004-05-19T23:10:11","date_gmt":"2004-05-19T23:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2004\/05\/unlocking_itune\/"},"modified":"2004-05-19T23:10:11","modified_gmt":"2004-05-19T23:10:11","slug":"unlocking_itune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2004\/05\/unlocking_itune\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking iTunes Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article tells how to unlock iTunes songs so that they can be played anywhere by the person who bought the tune (your personal information stays embedded in the tune):<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How to play purchased music on other systems - Engadget - www.engadget.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entry\/2127813034623335\/\"> How to play purchased music on other systems  &#8211; Engadget &#8211; www.engadget.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The instructions are based on using a utility called <a href=\"http:\/\/hymn-project.org\/download.php\">HYMM <\/a> (Hear Your Music Anywhere&#8230;. which looks like HYMA to me.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE Jan 3, 2008<\/strong>: iTunes gets updated so often, Hymm has not been able to keep up, and no longer works with newer versions of iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>An alternative is to &#8220;burn&#8221; your iTunes songs to a virtual CD (so you don&#8217;t have to waste a real CD) and then reimport them. Here is an article on that approach:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahintampa.com\/articles\/unlock-itunes.html\">How to Unlock iTunes Songs Without Burning a CD<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><!--\n\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-4888423166274760\";\n\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\n\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\ngoogle_ad_format = \"468x60_as\";\n\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\n\ngoogle_ad_channel =\"\";\n\ngoogle_color_border = \"B4D0DC\";\n\ngoogle_color_bg = \"ECF8FF\";\n\ngoogle_color_link = \"0000CC\";\n\ngoogle_color_url = \"008000\";\n\ngoogle_color_text = \"6F6F6F\";\n\n\/\/--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article tells how to unlock iTunes songs so that they can be played anywhere by the person who bought the tune (your personal information stays embedded in the tune): How to play purchased music on other systems &#8211; Engadget &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2004\/05\/unlocking_itune\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}