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Farhad writes:
When I pointed out that you're ruining your songs this way you say that the distortion is only minimal.
I'm over age 30, so I can no longer hear the difference. But if you're still young and fussy in regards to quality, then I suggest that you go buy analog vinyl, because back when I was young, I could clearly hear the difference between the best digital and vinyl (on the right gear). Hope you're willing to spend the $20K for Class A tube amps.
... I still don't get why you like this idea -- you've still got to burn and then rip your music in order to break it out of FairPlay, which you don't have to do with unrestricted MP3s. Don't you see some added benefit in that?
Absolutely, positively YES.
Because...Where's your backup copy when your HD fails?
That's why burning a CD is a necessity, regardless of where you got your music from.
From this perspective, the inconvenience of re-importing to DRM-strip is relatively trivial, so why allow it to even bother you? In fact, you don't even need to re-import right away: wait until your HD fails or there's some other reason to do it.
Of course, if you believe that you're immune from hardware failures, you have bigger problems than merely DRM. :-)
-hh
