Seems to get through the encoding stage then pops up a save dialog box and stops. I suspect I've got some non-standard preference setting in iMovie which is causing it to hiccup but TBH I can't really be bothered to sort it out. I have like half a dozen iTMS tracks, so I'm really not that inconvenienced by the DRM.

Isn't this a slightly more automated version of manually importing iTunes tracks into a iMovie timeline and then exporting them? If it is then there's not much new here.

If people are willing to re-encode into Apple Lossless, which will make the file much bigger, then utilities like this would be handy because there'd be no loss in quality.

The only reason I would want to remove the DRM from my songs would be to use a third party device like a Squeezebox. An iTV may solve this issue for some people, but I don't want to turn on my TV to listen to music.

It just says import clip. That is not clear and mono sucks, so why bother.

There are plenty of reasons as to why you would want to remove the DRM on songs which you legally bought from the iTunes store.

Hardware and Software such as Squeezebox, Tangerine and iVolume will not work with songs which have been bought from the store. If apple would give these apps a hook into being able to process these files this would not be an issue for me.

The 128kbps bit rate from the store is already pretty lousy/lossy and burning these songs to CD and then reimporting them is not really an option.

I completely agree with bdlatimer. So what! I mean what is the advantage of stripping DRM? You can play it on a copycat piece of junk MP3 player. Big deal. Apple had an idea and implemented it…the iPod. Not only that but Apple put all of the quality measures in place BEFORE they released it to the public. It's obvious that so many other companies are playing catch-up to the iPod and they are doing a horrible job at it. Microsoft is my favorite copycat…ask yourself one question. What percent of Microsoft market is big business? From a revenue perspective…I bet 80%. And why are they trying to tailor their software to the home user again? They painted themselves in a corner by responding to big business and they are going to have a tough time cracking the Apple market because Apple chose to tailor their software to the home user (Pictures, Music, Movies, TV Shows, etc.). Let's be honest…Apple owns a majority share of the music industry because they have a quality product and people generally know quality when they see it. Until there is a compelling reason to strip DRM…I'm not interested. Some people made good points on how songs won't play on certain quality devices. Bottom line…iTunes should have a format that will be usable on other devices…but we all know that there are absolutley NO STANDARDS in the electronic / IT arena and it's going to be that way for sometime. Until then ROCK ON iPod and iTunes. You earned the market for a reason!!!

I have everything, iMovie 6.0.3, set the preference to import clips in the timeline but everytime I try to process a song, it stops about 3/4 of the process with an AppleScript error that says "Can't get item 1 of {}. (-1728)". The reason I want to strip DRM is to convert songs to MP3 so that I can stream them over the Internet with QuickTime Streaming Server. Maybe there is a better way to do it but I haven't found it yet...

Converter TuneCab converts DRM-protected audio/video files http://www.tunecab.com