If you’ve purchased music from a dealer that uses Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) to prevent you from making backups, or copies of your music collection, or using them with the MP3 player of your choice, now you have a program to fix the problems DRM creates. AnalogWhole uses the “analog hole” where sound can simply be copied from the headphone jack, back into the microphone jack in a computer, to recreate a DRM-free music file. The beauty of this new program, is that you don’t need a special wire, it does everything in your computer internally, maintaining much more sound quality than what was previously possible.
So if you’ve ever bought at iTunes, I’d highly recommend you get this program as soon as you can.
Thanks to Slashdot.org for the news.
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liberal | 28-Oct-06 at 10:43 pm | Permalink
Maybe if your a green you should leave liberal and ndp blog rolls
Saskboy | 29-Oct-06 at 9:28 am | Permalink
“Liberal” maybe you could learn to spell “you’re” before giving advice that doesn’t make sense since I don’t even link to an NDP blogroll.
freddyzdead | 23-Sep-08 at 6:39 am | Permalink
FYI DRM means Digital RIGHTS Management; If this is really a piss-take, then I apologize. It doesn’t look like one.
I’m worried about this program, as it inexplicably comes wrapped in the InstallShield wrapper which, you might know, comes from none other than those scum Macrovision lowlifes. I can’t begin to imagine why someone distributing an anti-DRM program would do such a thing.
The other thing is that the program comes with no docs of any sort, nothing at all. If you try to install it on a system that has no Windows Media Player, it will fail partway through, but will give you absolutely no indication that anything is wrong. Not only that, but it will not appear in Add/Remove Programs, so you will not know whether or not it left anything behind after you deleted it.
This is not good. There could be other nasty things; I strongly recommend you stay away from this. There are lots of other utilities which will do the same job.
-freddy
freddyzdead | 23-Sep-08 at 6:46 am | Permalink
P.S. I suppose it doesn’t really matter because they’ve closed the Analog Hole with the HD Audio Bus, which is just a euphemism for Yet More DRM. Thanks, Bill. Micro$oft has become so powerful that they can now tell the likes of Intel what to do.
Saskboy | 23-Sep-08 at 8:43 am | Permalink
Thanks for the tip about Analog Whole. Of course, my article is old, and I’ve never used the actual program, I just wanted the concept out there for people to hear.
I’m attempting to reframe DRM as Digital Restrictions Management, because that’s a better description of what it is/does. Thanks for noticing :-)