Here is a very useful site. http://wiki.ehow.com/Convert-Protected-Audio-Into-a-Plain-MP3 --- 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 2:04 PM, Angus Wallace wrote: > If you want portable music (free from DRM), you need to reencode > it*. This is > bad, because everytime you encode it, you sacrifice quality. By > reencoding the > same music twice (once at ITMS, and once on your computer), you > will end up > with a file that sounds much worse than the CD. > Apart from this it is a hassle.