Solutions come and go for easily liberating iTunes Music Store purchases from their DRM shackles. The slow and tedious brute force method continues to work, requiring you to play back individual tracks one-at-a-time and recording them with software like Audacity. Saving the resulting files in your favorite DRM-free format, like MP3, WMA or even uncompressed AIFF or WAV. If you have more than a few tracks, this is far from practical. JHymn once offered an ideal solution, automating the conversion process of iTunes tracks, but is no longer useful since the upgrade to iTunes 6.x in 2005. The other remaining alternative is to burn iTunes Music Store tracks to CD either as an MP3 CD, copying the MP3 files back to your hard drive, or to create traditional CD-Audio disks that are then ripped using iTunes or your favorite CD ripping application. If you’re really clever, trick iTunes into creating an ISO by burning back to your hard drive, without ever creating a physical disk, mount the disk using something like Daemon Tools (make sure you opt out of the adware it attempts to install), and simply copy the files from your fake disk to a hard drive. I step through the process of unlocking iTune Music Store tracks in response to a recent question about switching from an iPod to another portable music player.