Strip Personal Info from iTunes Plus Tracks

iTunes Plus is great in that it offers you DRM-free tracks at a higher sound quality. But it's not so great that Apple embeds personal information in each track, in kind of a digital watermark. This way Apple or the RIAA could track you down if you posted an iTunes Plus track on a file sharing site, for example.

Fortunately, somebody has already figured out a way to strip that personal information out of the DRM-free tracks. Privatunes is a free utility you can use to make your iTunes Plus tracks nice and clean, and totally untraceable. Take that, Apple!

iTunes Plus is Here (and so is iTunes 7.2)

Apple has just released the latest update to the iTunes software, version 7.2. The main new feature in iTunes 7.2 is support for DRM-free tracks from the iTunes Store. These tracks, dubbed iTunes Plus, are offered at a 30-cent premium ($1.29/track), and also have a higher bitrate (256 kbps vs. the normal 128 kbps). Apples says these tracks sound "virtually indistinguishable" from the originals, which isn't true, but they do sound a lot better than normal-bitrate tracks. And the lack of DRM means you can copy them to as many computers or CDs as you want.