Help me Hack?

#1

Post by russw » Wed, Jul 23, 2008, 3:18 AM UTC

Trying to play a file that is resident in iTunes and has the "fairplay" DRM through a local AIR (Flash) Client. Ideas?

Re: Help me Hack?

#2

Post by alnayyir » Wed, Jul 23, 2008, 4:27 AM UTC

Most Y-Combinator folk are in the USA, as such, breaking the protections on this would violate the DMCA.

IANAL, just saying.

Re: Help me Hack?

#3

Post by russw » Wed, Jul 23, 2008, 5:43 AM UTC

alnayyir wrote: post #2

Most Y-Combinator folk are in the USA, as such, breaking the protections on this would violate the DMCA. IANAL, just saying.

Not trying to break the protection, just play the file. No copying, converting etc......

Re: Help me Hack?

#4

Post by bprater » Wed, Jul 23, 2008, 6:39 AM UTC

Y!Hack may not be the best forum for finding answers to tech issues. You might try ask.metafilter.com, some smart folks over there and they dig those types of questions.

Re: Help me Hack?

#5

Post by Tichy » Wed, Jul 23, 2008, 8:57 AM UTC

Order a CD containing the song from Amazon.

Re: Help me Hack?

#6

Post by mmelin » Wed, Jul 23, 2008, 4:10 PM UTC

Easy solution? Burn it to a CD and re-import it to iTunes, giving you a MP3 file. I don't think you can play Fairplay-protected files using anything other than iTunes, but you could of course use AppleScript from the AIR client to make iTunes play the file. But that's probably more trouble than it's worth.

Re: Help me Hack?

#7

Post by russw » Wed, Jul 23, 2008, 5:56 PM UTC

bprater wrote: post #4

Y!Hack may not be the best forum for finding answers to tech issues. You might try ask.metafilter.com, some smart folks over there and they dig those types of questions.

Thanks for the suggestion