My least favorite thing about iTunes and the iPod is the DRM–they impose huge artificial barriers to just playing the music where and when you want. The jHymn project worked very nicely for some time, but then iTunes version 6 and up broke the method they used.
Finally, someone has come up with a deDRMer which works with the new versions of iTunes. It is currently still limited–it only works in real time, and it doesn’t maintain any of the metadata currently associated with the file, and it doesn’t hunt down your DRMed files and undo just those for you–but all of those are tractable problems. Tractable enough, in fact, that I might take a stab at solving them.
News like this just makes me happy.
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