Burning the songs does remove the protection by converting it to AIFF then importing that into itunes & converting that to MP3. Quality isn't an issue because & listen via headphones. The tags are a REAL pain. They are all named track & a number. Actually only half of them are called track. The other half has the name of the song. Now, if I can figure out how to get the other half to retain the names. --- James Paul Manley Albuquerque, New Mexico Jim Manley's Photoshop Elements Page http://www.geocities.com/jim_p_manley/index.html On Feb 28, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Tom Legare wrote: > All the methods on that site are pretty much the same thing.... > take the > sound output of the iTunes file and recreate it as an MP3 file. It > doesn't > actually remove the protection of the original file. > > All those methods will create a loss of quality, although it may > not be > noticeable, and the loss (in theory) will be identical regardless > of which > method you use.