Itunes Question.

Well, I have purchased about 100 dollars worth of movies/music on iTunes but I want to restore my computer using my disks, is there anyway I can backup my iTunes Library and put it on Rapidshare or anything like that so I am able to get them again without buying? This is mainly about the movies, because I can put the music on CDs no problem.

 

Click File>>Back Up To Disc

 

All I have is CD burning disks, would that burn my movies aswell? Wouldn't that take like 10 hours?

 

<span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS">Well if you bought the music from iTunes then you probably CAN'T burn it to a disc because iTunes encrypts all of it's content. The file that you download isn't an .mp3.......it's an .aac. I'm not completely sure about the movies but it's probably protected as well. The best thing for you to do is to just put all of the files you want to keep in a .zip file and just host it on FileFront so you can download it all over again (still protected though).

If by burning it to a disc you mean making a data disc then that'll probably work also. You just can't burn the music to a bunch of disc and expect them to play in a CD player though lol.</span>

 

When you download something off iTunes, as HaVoC said, it's encrypted. Still, it's encrypted to YOU, so uploading them anywhere should give them back to you unharmed, if it's the same computer.

J a c K

 

Thats why you shouldn't pay for movies and music.

 

Lol. So true though. You buy your stuff and they basically punish you for it.

 

Lets not go off topic now, lol.

I would go ask itunes and see what they tell you.

 

thats definitely something you should do. people have to reformat all the time, and i guarantee you that itunes has seen it before. they should be able to give you suggestions or tell you something that you werent aware of. but contact their technical support.

 

I wouldnt recommend uploading it there is a chance it could be deleted by filefront, rapidshare for it being warez. I would save the movies as data cds or save them on a usb flashdrive

 

I asked a suppport person for iTunes, on apple.com.

Your welcome.

 

I don't believe that. DRM typically means once you purchase, you own to rights to posess that media.

Apple, like M$, Sony etc so try hard to stop piracy, but their methods only affect those honest enough to pay for the product in the first place.

 

Nope, iTunes states that.

Its how they make money. For instance, if you started downloading and it disappears you have to rebuy it to redownload *happened to me*

 

Thanks very much for asking for me, so if I click back up iTunes to a disk it should work? How much are small like 1g storage drives btw?

 

<span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS">1 GB is nothing really. The microSD card I use in my phone holds more space than that so a 1 gig shouldn't cost too much. Look for some deals on eBay or something.</span>