How to bypass iTunes music previews protection

http://alpblog.heroku.com/blog/how-to-bypass-itunes-music-previews-protection/

by lutfidemirci • 14 years ago

19 25 14 years ago

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dduck• 14 years ago

I am not sure m4a format can be played on Android devices.

mikeash• 14 years ago

Why wouldn't it? It's an open standard. Even if AAC decoding isn't built in, you could easily provide your own decoder for it.

honestcoyote• 14 years ago

Of course it can. m4p files are right out but those should be nearly extinct by now.

The player app on my phone plays just about every audio format available, including ogg and flac.

w1ntermute2• 14 years ago

If this becomes widely used, it'll only kickstart an arms race between Apple and the people trying to access the iTunes previews. Remember what happened with the Palm Pre and iTunes syncing? Apple doesn't like unapproved devices accessing its content ecosystem.

wzhack2• 14 years ago

I am not sure Apple can differentiate Apple devices over HTTP except UA header. Maybe they can develop a proprietary streaming protocol but is it worth?

pedrocr• 14 years ago

There are probably a bunch of ways of checking with javascript that are much harder to spoof than the UA.

philwelch• 14 years ago

> Remember what happened with the Palm Pre and iTunes syncing?

Palm Pre exploited security holes that would have allowed any rogue USB device falsely reporting itself as an iPhone to access e.g. your address book, and Apple patched the security holes. Quibble all you want over Apple's motivations, but there wasn't any other responsible thing for them to do.

jstalin• 14 years ago

... or just use Amazon's MP3 store. No DRM, no problems with synching multiple devices, and no "authorization" of devices/computers.

wzhack2• 14 years ago

I didn't know Amazon mp3 store had mp3 previews in their API. They are literally a UNIX stack company. Maybe iTunes can still be used if the Android and iOS ports should use the same database.

arrrg3• 14 years ago

There isn’t any DRM protected music in the iTunes Store, either.

This is only about the previews.

udpheaders3• 14 years ago

So if I purchase some songs from this store (e.g. someone gives me iTunes credit as a gift) I can still play them without iTunes? I don't need iTunes installed anywhere?

rwolf• 14 years ago

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I don't want the whole internet to look like svbtle. Heck, I don't even want svbtle to look like svbtle.

mathieuh• 14 years ago

I think he's using Obtvse: https://github.com/NateW/obtvse

drivebyacct2• 14 years ago

Who cares? It's clean and it's readable, it already beat several other front page HN articles on those two alone.

usea• 14 years ago

The article says

> Although downloading iTunes previews are illegal and restricted by Apple

What does the author mean by this? If downloading the files are illegal, why is there an API for it? And why do Apple products have features for consumers to do it? Is he trying to make a distinction between downloading and streaming?

alpb• 14 years ago

Hi there I am the author. iTunes API terms state that:

> ...music video previews; (iv) is streamed only, and not downloaded, saved, cached, or synchronized with video

http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentati...

nnnnni• 14 years ago

Yeah, if the file is being transferred from a remote machine to a local machine in any way (INCLUDING STREAMING), it's being downloaded.

How to bypass iTunes music previews protection

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