gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » itunes plus songs http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:32:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Erase Personal Information from iTunes Plus Songshttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/27/erase-personal-information-from-itunes-plus-songs/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/27/erase-personal-information-from-itunes-plus-songs/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:10:32 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/27/erase-personal-information-from-itunes-plus-songs/ The outcry of the Internet community was loud and clear when then information was published that songs purchased without DRM from Apple’s iTunes store would contain the name and username of the buyer. Horror scenarios where created that suggested that someone could get convicted if his purchased songs would be found on P2P websites even if he did not share them personally.

A stolen CD, notebook or hacked computer could be a reason why the songs would make their appearance on P2P. Those scenarios might not be that likely but I can definitely understand the concern of some users. I already described a way to get rid of the information by converting the songs directly in iTunes.

An easier way is to use the free software Privatunes which removes the information as well. Just select the song, chose if you want to backup it before removing the personal information and click on Anonymize it to start the process.

What I do not like that much is that you have to do this for every single song that you have purchased at the iTunes store. There is unfortunately no batch processing at all.

Still a nice way to remove the personal information from the iTunes plus songs.

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