Originally Posted by Havelock Vetinari:
“That is b****y pathetic. So basically Apple in the infinte wisdom make it impossible for you back up your songs?
What cretins, gald I have a creative. I don't have to buy 3rd party stuff to transfer and backup my music.”
Unfortunately it's the problem with DRM and other restrictions that make it difficult to back up your music wether it's yours or not. It's the worst part of owning an Ipod, which is unfortunate, at least it's not as complicated as backing up a 'plays for sure' music store track which involves backing up the files and then backing up the licences separately, and hoping it all works when restoring the backed up files at a later date, especially if you can't remember which store you bought the music from, or if the store you bought the music from has changed the web address of it's DRM server, meaning you'll never recover the licence to play the music ever again leaving a bunch of useless unplayable files wasting space on your hard drive, almost making you wish you had downloaded illegal copies of the files instead, a lot less trouble. It does make the ipods DRM seem so much more friendlier in comparison.