Saw this mentioned over at BoingBoing:
My favorite media player is something called Video LAN Client, or VLC, which plays everything from Quicktime to Divx and RealVideo. It’s free and open source, and improves steadily. Now, someone’s hacked in support for M4Ps, the DRM format used by Apple for the iTunes Music Store singles. Alas, it requires that you be using a machine that’s been authorized by Apple to play the tracks in question.
VLC rules. Read the rest of Cory’s post to hear the trouble he’s been going through in authorizing / de-authorizing his computers. Apple really needs to do something to rectify these problems, as I myself had a good deal of trouble contacting the iTMS support team when I had the same problem. There should be a way, akin to the way you add and remove computers from iSync, to log in to your iTMS account and authorize and de-authorize computers from there.
Or, you know, I guess Apple could just come to their senses and get rid of DRM. Yeah, that’d be nice, too…
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