Apple allows you to burn a particular playlist to a CD a maximum of 7 times. You can use this method to remove the DRM and so play music that you yourself purchased on a player of your choice. However, if you don’t want to ‘waste’ a CD in the process, and you still own Roxio Toast 6.0, you can do this instead:
1. Selecting the Audio Tab
2. Adding your songs
3. From the File Menu, choose “Save as Disk Image…”
4. Wait for the disk image to be created
Finally, you need to mount the disk image, but here’s the weird part. If in Toast you go to Utilities > Mount Disk Image, the disk image that you just created is not selectable! But, if you change the file extension to .dmg, it will be, thus:
5. In the Finder, change the diskimage to have the .dmg extension.
6. In Toast, go to Utilities > Mount Disk Image, and mount the disk image.
7. It should now appear in iTunes and you can import the CD at an encoding of your choice (recommend at least, 192kbps VBR as noted here)
Windows users can probably do much the same with an earlier version of Nero. This works with Toast 6.0.1, but not 7 and not perhaps with later versions of Toast 6. This should be legal as you are doing exactly what you can with iTunes anyway, but if you do more than 7 times you may be breaking the license agreement. I’m no lawyer because that line in Shakespeare scared me shitless as a kid, and I decided to become an astronaut instead.
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