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Tunebite app strips Nokia’s “Comes With Music” DRM

Categories: Content, Nokia
By: , IntoMobile
Sunday, December 14th, 2008 at 6:55 AM

Not sure about you, but I love Nokia’s “Comes With Music” idea. You buy a phone and get all the music you want along with the device. The problem, though, is in the DRM. If you want to play the same music on some other media player, that’s impossible to do. Luckily, there’s an easy workaround which I’m sure is not something neither Nokia nor any of the major record label like. It’s called Tunebite and it’s a Windows application that strips DRM from songs you downloaded from Nokia Music service, allowing you to play them on any device you want. The application “plays and re-dubbs the tracks” producing non-encrypted files as a result. It costs $26 (20 EUR) and apparently works in a matter of seconds per song.

Sounds cool, easy and ultra-convenient for those that like to have their songs played on multiple devices.

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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

  • george

    I don’t get it why they’d use that drm thing when u could get the files from other places .Actually that Tunebite app has been on the market since quite a long time ago,it’s indeed pretty cool cause it can be used to convert a lot of formats.But I think that the best thing about it is that it’s legal, cause it just re records the files, that u legally purchased btw and should use them on whatever way u need, at high speed and saves them as clean files,it doesn’t have anything to do with cracking files cause it doesn’t mess with the drm.